Scobleizer: Robots paving roads are years away, but studying human crews could drive breakthroughs
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-30
Scobleizer uses his street being repaved to argue robots are years or even decades from construction work, but observing how human teams coordinate could yield robot breakthroughs — to the point investors might buy construction companies to study human behavior. He frames automation of infrastructure rebuild as increasingly necessary given climate change and labor shortages.
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