This startup thinks robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment

“The fact that was actually able to zero-shot on just the front camera, with no other sensors, in the office with dynamic objects being introduced and people walking by was a very big surprise to us,” de Witte says. “I think it’s a sign of what’s to come.”

The end game for General Intuition isn’t to build robots itself, but to become the foundation model of physical AI, a base model for other robotics companies to build upon for their own machines. Or, as de Witte put it: “We’re not gonna build a self-driving car company. We’re gonna make it 10 times easier for the next person to build a self-driving car company.”