This company designs robots that will do yard work for you. It’s called Electric Sheep. Electric Sheep has spent the last 6 years building robots for the physical world. They started with RAM...their Roomba-like mower. And recently, they started demoing their latest creation...Verdie. Verdie’s design serves a variety of outdoor needs...it has two arms that can be interchanged with a variety of tools. It’s also designed with inspiration from R2-D2 and Wall-E. The common configuration is “edge mode”, where Verdie can use a weedwacker + leafblower to precisely edge your entire lawn. As I researched Electric Sheep, I noticed something super interesting... Their goal isn’t to own the robot lawnmowing category...they’re thinking much bigger. Electric Sheep has been using their outdoor robots to build a world model of physical space. Essentially, they want to build an AI system that would easily allow any robot to instantly understand how to operate outdoors. Here’s how they’re bu...