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Why this AI startup is targeting 60-70% of existing factories instead of waiting for humanoids

The Pitch · #178 CosmicBrain AI: How to Train Your Robot

“and probably expansion of the team to we are talking to a couple of, like, really, really good engineers that we need to hire in the team and also buy more robots and GPUs.”

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and probably expansion of the team to we are talking to a couple of, like, really, really good engineers that we need to hire in the team and also buy more robots and GPUs.

How many addressable robots are there for you right now?

Yeah. So that's why we are robot agnostic. Right? So if you look at the world right now or even The US, almost 60 to 70% of factories have some kind of automation in it. Right? So robots everywhere. From your dishwasher to your robot arm in a pick and place warehouse to every everything is robotics. So we are aiming those. Right? We are not waiting for a humanoid to come out and make that flourish and waiting for them to manufacture. We are going with the legacy industry, legacy manufacturing hubs and everything.

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CosmicBrain AI's founder explains their strategy of being 'robot agnostic' and targeting the massive existing automation market rather than waiting for humanoid robots to emerge. They're focusing on legacy manufacturing and the widespread robotics already deployed across 60-70% of factories, from dishwashers to warehouse pick-and-place systems.

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This reveals a counterintuitive market strategy of targeting existing robotics infrastructure rather than betting on future humanoid developments.

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