Mike Andes and Speaker A push back on hype around Elon Musk's humanoid robot presentation, comparing it to failed QR-code campaigns. Basic tasks like picking up laundry face real obstacles: weather, transportation, charging, wind, and people getting in the way.
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When I hear people say we're gonna have robot and humanoid robots in 5 years mowing, like, I don't even feel like I need to comment.
It literally, it was, it was like a, it was a quite a big conversation in, in Augusta. So we have like the daily mastermind and we do live Q&A and one of 'em was like, hey, I'm really concerned. I saw Elon's presentation of this humanoid robot and like, I always just have to go back to, it's kinda like QR codes. In theory, QR codes sound fantastic. Put it on your truck. People are gonna scan it. We did that and we tracked it and it was like such a, like, I literally think it was less than 10 across Augusta that we saw people scanning QR codes on trucks. Makes great in theory, but like no one does it. And so like, it's like, look, if you can't get a human or a robot right now to do something like pick up your laundry, we're not outside yet where there's rain, let alone being transported, let alone being charged, dealing with wind, dealing with people pushing the thing. None of us even have it putting our laundry away yet. So,