Robotics practitioner: LLM-generated 'robotics startups' all chase the same fake problems
kscottz · x · 2026-10-20
- Robotics practitioner kscottz observes that most recent "slop projects" tackle one of a handful of "problems" that aren't actually problems in robotics.
- He quips that LLMs seem to have a stock answer to "build me a robotics company, make no mistakes," producing highly homogeneous startup ideas.
- The jab highlights how AI-generated business plans misfit hardware robotics: generic model-suggested pain points diverge from real engineering challenges.
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