Bankless · Monday, August 31, 2026
Shahin Farshchi clarifies that automation is a broad category encompassing the entire process of task automation, including financing, engineering workflows, the physical robot, and its software. Robots, while crucial, are just one component of the larger automation ecosystem. This distinction is important when discussing the industry's advancements and potential.
“So I look at automation as a solution to a problem. So there are many aspects associated with automation. There's a financing aspect. aspect associated to it. There's an engineering aspect associated with it, which has nothing to do with the robot.”
“It is the physical robot itself. It's the software that runs on the robot. It's the systems that are put in place to maintain the robots and make sure that they're up 99.999% of the time.”
“And so I view all of those resources culminating in the end goal of, the automation of a task to fall under that envelope of automation with the physical robots and the software that is running on that robot being a component of that?”