Mathilde Anita

Yesterday I went to what basically looked like a high school robotics fair. 3 floors full of booths, everyone showing their own project. I saw a robot cutting sushi, AI travel agents, robotics everywhere... there was honestly all kinds of stuff. It was @fdotinc's demo day.

Canopy @fdotinc Day 28 - we FINALLY realized what people actually wanted. In February, our humanoid cut bread. In March, it cut hot dogs. In April, we hosted a Robot Sushi Party and 30 people showed up — engineers from Meta, Google, Dropbox, founders, and investors. In May, we did it again and 50+ people came. Every time we showed robot sushi, people lost their minds. Last Sunday we hosted Robot Sushi Party at the EO House (@eostudi0). I had never even had a 1:1 with the Founders Inc (@fdotinc) team. Then suddenly I got a message: “We’re giving you the biggest booths at the festival.” I thought I’d show our industrial robotics demos from Shanghai on Wednesday. Mike(@mdjshin)’s response: “Alright. So you’re doing robot sushi here at the Zen Pond.” Wait… How do YOU know about robot sushi? 😂 Now every founder in the cohort recognizes me as: “Oh, you’re the robot sushi guy.” For months I kept telling people about nuclear power plants, oil refineries, and industrial automation. Important? Absolutely. But nobody pays for a dream that takes 10 years. They pay for something they want today. And the market has been screaming the answer at us. People love sushi. People love robots. People love Japan. So maybe we should stop arguing with reality. No more assumed demand. I spent the last 3 years across the Global South. In India, I saw sushi rice dyed blue. In Kenya, wealthy crypto entrepreneurs privately hired sushi chefs and flew ingredients from Tokyo because there was no other way to get authentic sushi. Outside Japan, truly great sushi is incredibly rare. Not because people don’t want it. Because master craftsmanship doesn’t scale. So we’re going to scale it. We’re going to capture the skills of elite sushi chefs as Physical AI and make authentic sushi available anywhere on Earth. Nairobi. Bangalore. San Francisco. Rural America. Doesn’t matter. If you want world-class sushi, you’ll get world-class sushi. Fine. You want robot sushi? We’ll build the best damn robot sushi chef on Earth. Then we’ll use the profits to build the robots for nuclear power plants. 🍣🤖☢️🚀