Open Source Robotics with Ethereum

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[music] [music] No. Okay. It's here. It's here. I've been with Verion for a few years now. Um well, and last year I many of us said that EF was weak. So, Vitalik asked me to help and uh we went on a journey and uh from now on I focus on robots and physical infrastructure. So let's think about Ethereum story. We needed to decentralize money and we built uh decentralized finance. We became money engineers and built DeFi LEGO and we needed to decentralize

governance. We became governance engineers and we we we I have no idea where to click this one. Okay. We built Dows and we were inspired and we succeeded and but the money doesn't matter anymore, right? And the world is going hardware. So, we can keep moving and uh still open source.

And what's open source? The robot is open source. Microax and robot operating system is open source [snorts] OS and Mojoko is open source and Menlo research asimoth is open source and comes from the Ethereum ecosystem. An open compute project is open source and tells us how to build the compute and data centers. And Linux Foundation Energy is open source to learn how to do power engineering. And for the world that will go offline, of greet banking and off the internet,

in order to decentralized, you have to decentralize power. And in India, there are 1.5 million engineers graduating every year. and time to focus on power engineering on power compute and robots because nobody else will do it. And the true message is learn power engineering, learn robotics, learn supply chains, learn agriculture, design medicines, design vaccines. Um learn not for global reach and power. This is the past. Learn for your local communities

to help your friends and family. Go back. Build with open ways AI. Build with open hardware. Build with open labs. Don't waste time and rush. Help your family, friends, local communities because nobody else will do it. Thank you. [applause] Thank you, Tom. Quite a journey you have been on and some wise words. Is there any questions from the crowd for Tamas? >> Yes.

>> Learn that we have a local community. [laughter] >> Uh so I actually have I studied robotics engineering and you know and now I've kind of pivoted. I work on Ethereum. um >> go back >> and now I want to go back actually especially with how Ethereum has been performing you know the last few years. >> Ethereum is great. You go back so you can connect to it all. >> No no absolutely. I I was wondering is there anything um so I know like I've worked with robot operating system before. I used to do a lot of uh embedded systems work. Is there anything that's explicitly like Ethereum stuff that somehow just se integrates seamlessly with with hardware with robotics? Is there >> I don't think necessarily it is. I think

that the culture and the idea of Ethereum as a decentralization especially in the context of the current AI looming threat and potential disruptions over the next few years tell you a story of many well stories that I was referring to here. some kind of uh go back to local to build systems that are very resilient, decentralized uh locally resilient for the disruption of the network so they can survive and the decentralization of power here I'm telling you go and build the system that can be truly self sustainable offline without internet and this is very common uh concern about Ethereum

you're building Ethereum to be resilient But it all depends on internet and we are now facing potential challenges to the internet. >> So you are working on robotics now complete robot >> robotics and infrastructure so power infrastructure deploying uh battery systems energy and so on. >> Okay cool man. Yeah thank you. >> Thank you. Are you developing some sort of protocols or uh like what is the output of >> um developing the general coordination supply chain system and robotics and infrastructure deployment where you can press a button and deploy um power systems or the entire mini villages and communities and cities over time

>> and how do you use Ethereum doing it? >> I don't >> at all. >> No. Okay. >> If uh if it will be useful, I'll use it. I think that it will be useful for the uh for the tokenization in the future for funding where if you press the button, the funding will come from Ethereum. Um we'll see. That's my intuition, but I don't want to force blockchain into solutions unless they really need it. >> Thank you. >> Lovely. One last question up the front here. Um how do you actually p uh can you please tell me a bit more about the power systems that you were talking about and how you actually do that?

>> Well, we go modular with the battery energy storage systems. Uh we go modular with data centers. Uh we start manufacturing in more locations. So we're moving away from one single global manufacturing uh source. So that's the direction multiple components of a supply chain. And I'm encouraging you to to go back to that area because there will be massive demand and energy will become almost like a new currency. >> So we don't rely on a single entity.

>> Oh, I'm I'm not using any magical words of what I'm doing that I'm decentralizing or democratizing and so on. I'm just building a a company and I'm encouraging others to to start thinking of how the local communities will be able to use technology and what they need to build locally in the face of disruption of global supply chains like resilient and I think that when we are in Ethereum we talk about it very often so it's culturally close but uh but yeah I will not be saying I'm decentralizing I'll be centralizing but if there will be thousands of other people then somehow that centralization will be Centralizing the world because everybody will be building.

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