Tutor Intelligence Podcast: Robots From $16/Hour Already Working in US Factories
a16z Podcast · rss · 2026-11-03
On the a16z podcast, Tutor Intelligence CEO Josh Gruenstein joins GPs Martin Casado and Raghu Raghunathan to argue robotics is a systems problem spanning AI, hardware, manufacturing, and the work itself.
Key points:
- Deploy robots into real businesses, use human "tutors" when needed, and turn that work into training data that makes robots more capable
- A 100-robot data factory
- Robots starting at roughly $16 an hour
- Discussion of spatial reasoning advances and what flexible robotic labor could mean for American manufacturing
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