When @peteflorence started out in robotics, the case for robots was simple: send them where people shouldn’t have to go, for example into a nuclear disaster. For most of the robotics industry, that became the standard call: build machines to take on the danger and drudgery humans shouldn’t have to face. He sees that as only the baseline. He says the real unlock is what happens when machines have the physical intelligence to build things that would take thousands of people, and he expects the…