Formic CEO Co-Writes Essay on the Realistic Path to General-Purpose Robots That Don't Suck
AnneliesGamble · x · 2026-10-28
A co-written essay by Formic founder & CEO Saman Farid and Matter Venture Partners GP Haomiao Huang explores how to get to general-purpose robots that actually work, opening with the 'toddler doing chores' analogy and discussing practical routes past current generalization bottlenecks.
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