Annelies Gamble · 27 October 2026 · Investment Thesis

Getting to General Robots That Don’t Suck

Annelies Gamble, Partner @ Zetta

General-purpose robots face a fundamental challenge: demos show impressive generality but lack production reliability. The winning path isn't vertical (build general-but-unreliable then climb to reliability) but horizontal—start with narrow, revenue-generating tasks and expand systematically while collecting data, avoiding the integrator trap.

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Topics: Robotics · Manufacturing & Industrials · AI (Horizontal)

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