Bankless · Monday, August 31, 2026
Shahin Farshchi likens the current robotics revolution to the integration of microprocessors in the 1970s, which led to widespread automation in manufacturing. He highlights that while industrial robots in automotive plants have been common for decades, recent AI advancements and cost reductions are making automation accessible to smaller companies that previously lacked the budget.
“And that's how you saw robotics enter into, for example, automotive manufacturing. You had these robotic arms that had a level of intelligence in them that allowed them to be programmed to very fine specifications, to do very specific tasks like welding, riveting, gluing, painting, various types of inspections.”
“And now what we're seeing with AI is just like how it is now easy for anybody to generate code, it's becoming as easy for anyone to program a robot and these robots are getting very cheap.”
“And so now you're seeing a lot of these companies who otherwise didn't have access to robots. These industries otherwise didn't have access to robots, now getting access to them in a way we hadn't seen before.”