Brett Adcock – Shawn Ryan’s First Interview with a Robot | SRS #292
Brett Adcock is a technology entrepreneur focused on building companies in robotics, artificial intelligence, and aerospace. Born and raised on a third-generation farm in central Illinois, he developed an early fascination with technology and building systems from the ground up. After attending the University of Florida, he set out to tackle ambitious, capital-intensive industries with the goal of reshaping transportation, labor, and human-machine collaboration.
At 26, Adcock founded Vettery, an AI-powered talent marketplace that matched thousands of companies with highly qualified candidates. The company scaled rapidly and was acquired in 2018 for $110 million by The Adecco Group, the world’s largest recruiting firm.
In 2018, he founded Archer Aviation to develop electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft aimed at transforming urban air mobility. During his time leading the company, Adcock helped architect, engineer, and flight-test five generations of aircraft, vertically integrating key technologies including flight software, electric motors, actuation systems, and battery systems. Archer secured a $1.5 billion partnership with United Airlines and positioned itself at the forefront of next-generation aviation.
In 2022, Adcock founded Figure, where he serves as Founder & CEO. Figure is building general-purpose humanoid robots designed to address global labor shortages and work alongside humans in manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, retail, and the home. Backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, the company has raised billions in venture capital and is focused on deploying embodied AI systems at scale.
He is also the founder of Cover (2023–present), an AI security company developing non-intrusive scanners in partnership with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The technology is designed to passively detect concealed weapons in crowded environments, with the goal of improving public safety without invasive screening.
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00:00 Welcome and Intro
03:03 Safety and Trust in Humanoids
08:48 AI Bubble and Abundance
16:34 Small Town Roots and Early Hustles
27:20 Archer Aviation and Flying Cars
36:43 All In on Archer
38:25 Building the Flying Robot
45:39 Sky Lanes Future Cities
49:59 Uber for Air Taxis
52:37 Humanoids Origin Story
01:01:19 Self Funding Figure AI
01:35:11 Figure 3 Robot Tour
01:57:08 Solving General Robotics
02:00:43 Robot Teamwork and Self Repair
02:03:45 Manufacturing Back in America
02:11:30 Cover School Safety Tech
02:43:18 Robot Risk Big Question
02:48:44 Advice For Founders
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Is just me, I suddenly want to take up fencing with that robot!
Cannot wait for this clanker to get durability tested by 12ga.
I like working. Delegate more work out so you can go to work. Checks out.
How many times does Shawn say WOW?
It seems, for this specific product and example, it is more of a consumer product than a commercial product. I can only imagine the complexity of the contract you’d have to sign to put one of these in your home. You’d be waiving all your rights.
Seems like a guy that would totally sell out his family and humanity.
I’ll die before I give up my evo.
Fake news. He has been talking to AI generated robots the whole time. This is his first time with a real person.
Hi, Brett
Waymo has been in Arizona which has been great!
Shawn should asked him, If he could give him a leg sweep- instead of the gentle- hey buddy push
Why the click bait title? Of course everyone thought he would interview the robot
nerds
Well this wouldn’t end well. I’ve seen too many Sci fi movies, robot against humans
Oh lawd they bout to replace us
Don’t pay a dime for that thing shawn- It’s like buying the first vcr! I do like this guests mentality, I think he will be one of the good robot pioneers!
This is fake their really is a human controlling it remotely look it up this is fraud
bro imagine using robots to jam signals in a localized area just cruising through lol
I will lynch any humanoid robots around me
(1:53:00) excuse me what????
As a 56 year old broken Ironworker… Dude, the separation between men yall… Trapped in poverty after 35 years in the sun..
I try to live withinmymeansbut$1600 don’t cut it!
Sean Ryan, veteran, hero
Keeps platforming people who hate America.
Tucker Carlson is next for sure
Anyone else notice that this robot walks exactly like Joe Biden ???!! Seriously, go watch him walk and compare them 😳
Sean did it again
Always bringing us the interviews that we wanna see always asking the right questions. I’m trying to get us the truth.
I love your show, bro. I appreciate everything you’re doing and thank you very much for your service brother. Incredible guys like you are the reason we get to walk around with the freedoms and liberties that we are blessed with.
People have fought and died for our freedom and all rights and myself and a lot of other people are not interested in letting some corrupt politician take those away from us
We are going to take our country back and get us back on track. We should be the most prosperous country in the world with incredible inventions that actually get to you be used and not buried in a bunch of paperwork because our government stole the patent..
I’m going on a little rant right now my bad😅😂 😂😅
I really just wanted to say thank you Shawn
Him explaining his “back story” sounded like utter baloney.
Clickbait.
I hope you did not keep the spy robot. lol
This world is so fucked
Shawn why didn’t you ask the obvious question? If robots replace humans as the work force, how can individuals afford to buy a robot for their home? It can’t be ubi because the country will have no more tax base to siphon from. Not to mention the government is already sending billions to Israel, Ukraine, and the Taliban. Not to mention all of our social programs are being scammed out of money at rates they can’t even calculate. As far as I can see there is no job these robots will not be able to do in the next ten years and companies can get one robot to replace at least 3 workers and it would make sense. No breaks no time of for vacations or sick leave no paying for time an employee is off, workers comp, taxes, retirement match, wage increases etc. why wouldn’t they replace us. But I firmly ask… how would we afford to buy the robots and who will buy the goods created and services those robots provide?
This is very scary and to hear him talk about it like it’s normal
Absolute no! Its not hard to do CHORES OR ORDER THINGS OR DO ANY OF this stuff now. We should not replace human connection with robots. Remember WALL E the people became fat and lethargic and dumb down. . . Wake up people
I don’t like how he never pushes back on guests or rarely from what I’ve seen.
Sam is losing billions a year open ai , I can see why most made their own companies
I was focused on the interview with IT. There wasn’t one. Click bait.
At 1:37:39 does the robot start turning around before Brett tells it to? It could be a difference in audio/video timing, but it looks like it begins turning early.
I work in robotics (not gonna say who but we were on the cover of Newsweek)…PAY SERIOUS ATTENTION TO THESE VIDEOS.
Kyle Reese is watching
In the 80s, I read about Jewish prophecy. Interesting stuff!
They awaited a statue that will come ALIVE. Strange, right?
Now, we have AI.
Wanna guess who funds the AI agenda?
What a kawinkadink!
Eliminate the draft and send these things in. I call bullshit on the whole thing..
this man sounds spoiled and so far from christ is sad
Fuck robots lazy ppl
He even has the same BS sayings as Musk. I’m just waiting for him to say orders of magnitude. Already got the “to scale”.
Wow there it is @49:00
Knew it was coming
So if like um you know the robots take all like the jobs um you know what are like um the people going to do like for money or to like you um survive?
I would get it just to fold my washing if I wasn’t so suss on it
Rich guys……
So is it something or is it ” like” something? To have reached this level and not know how to speak better. Blows my mind.
Yeah. I’ve seen this movie before.
Super great show.
This guy thinks everything about automation is great. You know what I think is great? Driving. I do not want a robotics obsessed oligarchy taking the simple pleasures of life, such as driving, away from me.
No he gave him some “AH UM AH’s”.
Just ominously standing in the background the whole time