Scoble echoes Silicon Valley robotics panel: banning Chinese robots means you're already losing
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-30
- Panel point at SF robot meetup: "You only block products from another country if your own are way behind. Without winning at world scale, your competitiveness erodes as manufacturing costs fall with volume." The panelist predicted China will run away with robotics, and Scoble agrees.
- Shenzhen Robot Tech floor tour (Skyhigh Feng): a "city of futures" side by side — rentable humanoid performers, home robots that cook/clean/fold, non-stop factory arms, robot boxing as sport-plus-stress-test, data-center robots patrolling racks and swapping hardware, rescue drones/bots, and companion robots for kids and elders.
- Scoble adds the US must compete in all global markets, not just domestically.
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