Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
“Probably the coolest company that I’m kind of following is Figure Robotics, in terms of AI. I think this is kind of the next step of automation. I don’t know if you have kids, but as soon as you have them, the amount of laundry that you have to do is astronomical, so having a robot at home that can do chores would be a huge game changer for a lot of people...
With driving, you can get a lot of data pretty easily, but with robotics automation, I think the bottleneck is just training data. It’s kind of a chicken-and-egg problem—we need to deploy a bunch of robots and have them start doing tasks, even if they’re remote-operated, to collect the data and then train them.
But it’s going to happen.”
–Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on the New Economies podcast with Ollie Forsyth
Watch the full interview:
youtu.be/HCW2ASm5Kdg?si=BGebhO_2qFZH6xVe
“Probably the coolest company that I’m kind of following is Figure Robotics, in terms of AI. I think this is kind of the next step of automation. I don’t know if you have kids, but as soon as you have them, the amount of laundry that you have to do is astronomical, so having a robot at home that can do chores would be a huge game changer for a lot of people...
With driving, you can get a lot of data pretty easily, but with robotics automation, I think the bottleneck is just training data. It’s kind of a chicken-and-egg problem—we need to deploy a bunch of robots and have them start doing tasks, even if they’re remote-operated, to collect the data and then train them.
But it’s going to happen.”
–Solana Founder Anatoly Yakovenko on the New Economies podcast with Ollie Forsyth
Watch the full interview:
youtu.be/HCW2ASm5Kdg?si=BGebhO_2qFZH6xVe
