A company that builds faceless factory robot arms just raised $200 million at a billion-dollar valuation by teaching machines tasks through pretrained models, human demonstrations, and on-site corrections. Daniel and Emily unpack what the AI stack actually does, why 'data quality beats data volume' might be the quiet engineering lesson of the year, and what all of it means for the person standing next to the arm.
## Hosts
### Daniel Altman
Daniel Altman is a computer scientist and AI strategist with a background in engineering, quantitative research, and emerging technologies. He studies how technological breakthroughs reshape industries, markets, work, and human capabilities.
### Emily Carter
Emily Carter is a business strategist and former technology product leader with experience building digital products and studying how innovation reaches millions of users. She focuses on AI adoption, business transformation, work, education, entrepreneurship, and leadership.
## Sources
- https://www.latent.space/p/standard-bots
## Episode Information
Language: en
Published: 2026-10-10T20:10:17.400575+00:00
