What Travis Kalanick thinks about robotics

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Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.

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1. 14 Aug 2026

   Our readingIndustrial-scale automation will be done by specialised machines that move on wheels, not by humanoid robots, which only suit low-scale tasks in human environments.

   Their wordsIf you're doing highcale tasks, industrial scale tasks, you are going to make specialized machines that move and act in the physical world. The key part is move. If they're moving, they got to have wheels.

   ↗Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical Worldyoutube.com 4th of 14 in this recording