Short YouTube commentary by Tom Burton about 'Physical AI' (robots with a physical presence). Burton acknowledges expected progress in personal robots but is skeptical that 2025 will be a breakout year—citing economic constraints (e.g., high consumer prices) and uncertainty about buyer demographics. He references a claim that over 100,000 personal robots might be ordered in a year but doubts widespread adoption.
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Physical AI. So that's the term that kind of can be used to categorize anything that's a robot or something that has a physical presence. Is this is going to be the year of sort of seeing that physical AI capabilities come available and be made available. I think he said there were a hundred, he thought there would be over 100,000 personal robots ordered during the course of the year. I don't, I, I agree that we will make big strides. I don't think this is going to be the year. I think there's still a lot of other challenges that are going to get in the way of that from an AI perspective like five dollar eggs. You know you're not going to buy personal robots when you're paying crazy prices at the grocery store. Yeah, maybe. Depends upon who those hundred thousand people are. Right. That are going to buy those things that are there. But I just don't think we're, I think that, you know, there's obviously a lot of early adopters and people that will tom buy something even though it doesn't work quite the way that it. And I think we will make some great strides. I just don't think this will be the year.