The Gap
What “deployed” actually means. The chasm between demo videos and commercial reality.
Chapter 10 of A Brief History of Embodied Intelligence
“It works. But ‘works’ and ‘works at scale’ are different sentences.” — Agility Robotics engineer, 2024
The warehouse in Flowery Branch, Georgia, was the size of several football fields, a concrete cathedral of commerce humming with the din of conveyor belts, the beeping of forklifts backing up, and t…
