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1 January

Rodney BrooksKorrents 1 Jan

From one piece Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Most of the companies now selling a transport technology will quietly disappear, and the survivors will redefine what they are doing without renaming it.

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As with self driving cars, most of the early players in humanoid robots, will quietly shut up shop and disappear. Those that remain will pivot and redefine what they are doing, without renaming it, to something more achievable and with, finally, plausible business cases.

Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01rodneybrooks.com
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A robotaxi that still needs remote human help loses the cost advantage that motivated it, which pushes out when it can scale.

self-driving cars

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Systems which do require remote operations assistance to get full reliability cut into that economic advantage and have a higher burden on their ROI calculations to make a business case for their adoption and therefore their time horizon to scaling across geographies.

Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01rodneybrooks.com

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