Manufacturing is still pre-AWS.
Locked behind capex, tooling, and gatekeepers.
We need the Linux moment:
open, messy, community-driven hardware products.
High mix × high volume.
Anyone can build, not just those who can afford factories.
We need manufacturing abstraction the way Amazon Web Services hid data centers.
No tooling. General-purpose factories. Same hardware, infinite products.
Until then, incumbents hoard the data
and worse… there isn’t much of it.
Too few players.
Too few products.
Way below what an exciting future could look like.
90% of training data is domain-specfic and privately held by individual companies. So there'll be marketplaces for use case specific data. As for new data generated, that'll be subject to licensing. Those who pay for robots will want to own what robots generate.