Walden Robotics CEO Russ Tedrake on how general-purpose robots could reshape manufacturing
adnothing · x · 2026-10-22
Walden Robotics CEO and noted roboticist Russ Tedrake kicked off The Economist's Physical AI & Robotics Summit with a central question: how could general-purpose robots change manufacturing beyond automating one task at a time?
His talk traced the arc of progress in robotics and explored which advances might come next; full content is in the summit talk itself.
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