Equity · Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Al Cohen, CEO of Humble Robotics, emphasizes that the progress in autonomous vehicles has been a consistent effort, often a 'grind,' rather than solely driven by hype cycles. He notes that dedicated builders have persisted through technological challenges, improving components like cameras and the core AI, unlike investors who might chase the next trend.
“The core industry is actually like a fairly small industry and a lot of the people that have been in it since I started are still in it, right? It just becomes a little bit of a grind sometimes, right?”
“Like you just keep working on the problem and doing the next thing like the cameras aren't good enough, they get the cameras better. Okay, the cameras got better. The, uh, the autonomous technology, the brain of it, you know, wasn't quite up to par. Okay, let's grind on that, get it better, right?”
“You know, investors, they invested at the beginning, right? And then they invested sort of in like the 2016 time frame. But once they have made their investment, it's really up to the founders to kind of take that investment and carry it forward, right?”