This episode is presented by Mercury, the FinTech that simplifies how more than 200,000 businesses operate. Hello and welcome back to Equity, Tech Crunch's flagship podcast about the business of startups.

I'm Rebecca Belan and this is our Wednesday episode where we home in on a trend in the tech world

and dive deep. Today we're going to talk about humanoid robots and not just because of Tesla's

optimist bought because in case you didn't know there are actually other companies

who are owning this space they're just maybe not as loud about it. I'm joined by

fellow T. C. or Brian Heater, and Brian is our hardware editor over here at Tech Crunch.

I can't wait to get into all things robots with you.

Brian, welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

It's good being on your flagship program.

Well, yeah, I just really wanted to... me it's good being on your flagship program.

Well, yeah, I just really wanted to get your opinion

after last week's Tesla We Robot reveal.

Because of the title of it, We Robot,

which is kind of like I Robot, we were expecting some kind of optimist robot updates, if you will, alongside the Robotaxi reveal.

But I'm not sure that we really got many updates from it. We saw a lot of bots dancing around,

apparently talking to people who were there, guests and besters, pouring drinks, but we didn't get anything really new.

I think we maybe expected some more concrete details about sales, but what we did kind of learn

is that, you know, the the bots that were talking to people were

actually being remote controlled so yeah thoughts on this well when you say we

learn that you don't mean that we learned that from the event you mean that

subsequently it was revealed?

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