Latest robotics reading to make you smarter: 1. Not Boring collab piece with founder of Standard Bots Key takeaway: Instead of trying to build the giant robot version of a LLM for all robotics use cases, Standard Bots is focused on excelling in specific revenue generating use cases and expanding from there, thus getting paid to get data Their approach is more incremental than the large robotic labs that are trying to one shot physical intelligence 2. When will Robots go Mainstream by Colossus Key takeaway: software is a bigger obstacle than hardware in robotics - and data is a huge bottleneck (good for crypto teams focusing on data collection) Good piece on how different teams are approaching robotics - Standard Bots approach of specific industrial use cases is a popular strategy, although they are excellent at it