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Thank you Transpose Platform team for having me the their AGM last month, and to Brett Gibson for joining me in a fun conversation. I wanted to share a few highlights from our chat, titled: “AI + Robotics: The Future of U.S. Manufacturing.” 1. Silicon Valley is littered with failed robotics companies that had a great product, a great team, a few proofs of concept and little/no revenue. It is not enough to solve technical challenges if you’re not also solving a core business challenge or need for integrators or end customers. 2. Real data from real production environments is a massive advantage for any robotics company. Our pace of product improvement and speed to deploy is directly correlated to the increasing number of “reps” we’ve had as a business, and this will continue. 3. We are at the precipice of a wave of robotics companies that are building products for a wide array of industries and tasks, but they are operating in very constrained environments. The real world is messy, and getting a proof of concept going is only 20% of the work.