Ex-robotics founder predicts startup wave: data collection and sim-as-a-service are entry points
carlosdponx · x · 2026-11-05
Drawing on his own year in robotics before bailing out, the author predicts an avalanche of robotics startups as frontier LLMs push results forward. For software people, he flags two comfortable entry areas: data collection and simulation-as-a-service.
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