I was tired of buzzword-heavy AI projects and marginally impactful demos. Surely we can do something more inspiring with these LLMs than build another chatbot?
For me, the answer is physical AI: the moment all those breakthroughs finally reach into the real world, in robots that see, move, and figure things out for themselves. I think it is the most exciting frontier in tech right now.
It is also genuinely hard to break into, because it is not one field. It is about five of them stacked on top of each other: electronics, mechanics, programming, data, and AI. Eight months ago I started my own robotics journey from scratch, and I was completely overwhelmed.
How do you get from blinking an LED to a humanoid that does your dishes?
There are thousands of scattered tutorials out there, with no sense of what comes first, or what any of it is building toward.
