Why American Factories Are Betting on Adaptive AI Robots Right Now | Siddharth Girdhar, Pivot Robots

Описание: Software is getting commoditized by AI. Siddharth Girdhar, founder of Pivot Robotics, explains why physical AI and manufacturing robotics are the next frontier and why he's building it in America, not Asia.

We explore:

Why intelligence requires pattern recognition + memory, not just data
The data problem that killed OpenAI's robotics ambitions
Why 99% accuracy still fails in robotics (vs 80% works for coding AI)
How Pivot uses vision AI for sub-millimeter precision in metal finishing
Why US manufacturing needs automation more than India does
The ROI challenge: when does a robot beat human labor?
Why inference must run on-prem with zero network delay
Foundation vision models vs world models in manufacturing
How one robot can now handle N parts instead of just one
Why Elon's hardware companies inspire the next generation
The reshoring wave: perfect timing for US manufacturing robotics

About Siddharth Girdhar:

Founder, Pivot Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University graduate
Former Meta engineer
Building AI-powered surface finishing robots for US manufacturing
Pivot Robots specializes in grinding, sanding, and polishing with sub-millimeter precision i.e AI-driven automation for high-mix manufacturing environments

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