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Bankless · Monday, August 31, 2026

AI and Accessibility Lowering Barriers to Automation Entry

Shahin Farshchi highlights that advancements in AI and decreasing hardware costs are making robotics programming and adoption more accessible. He contrasts this with the past, where specialized engineering was required and only large companies could afford sophisticated automation, suggesting that new tools will enable wider adoption across various industries.

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And my enthusiasm is rooted to the earlier part of the conversation and these robots becoming less expensive and more. the engineering that goes into making them useful becoming far more accessible, just like how anybody can now speak to a computer and generate code, I see a future where someone can speak to an interface powered by AI that will then program the robot to do a specific task rather than you having to hire an engineer.
And we'll see the more rapid adoption of automation and more and more settings that until now didn't have that access.
So you're right. It is taking the individual components and building all the software and the tools that you need to actually make that system that you build for your use case useful.
Heard on Bankless — “Bullish on Automation and Robotics, but not Humanoid Robots | Shahin Farshchi, published Monday, August 31, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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AI and Accessibility Lowering Barriers to Automation Entry — Heardvine