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Gene Munster, Doug Clinton
Loup Frontier Tech Benchmark: August 2021
For twenty years, the team at Loup has had a pulse on technology and a point of view on how that tech will change the world. The cutting edge of that change is frontier tech, driven today by AI, fintech,…
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Gene Munster, David Stokman
Score 1 for the Humans: Why Walmart is Scrapping Robots
In our Manifesto 2.0, we make the case that, over the next decade, automation will replace 70% of all jobs currently done by humans. That eventual period of automation will be characterized by pure AI, i.e., robots fully performing tasks…
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Doug Clinton
Investing in Outrider
Automation is poised to be the defining theme of the 2020s. The time is now because of the confluence of advancements in deep learning, information collection via powerful sensors, and hardware able to calculate real-time judgments on that information to…
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Loup Ventures
2019 Loup Ventures Holiday Gift Guide
Ember Mug | $99 | Keep your coffee warm – solve a 500-year-old problem. Byta Bottle | $31 | Our favorite water bottle; and a small way to combat the problem with recycling. Nike Epic React Flyknit 2 | $99 | Loup…
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Gene Munster
Shifting the Paradigm from Square to Cubic Feet with Bumblebee Spaces
A year ago, we announced our investment in Bumblebee Spaces, a company that is creating a new way to live by unlocking the third dimension in your living space. Bumblebee hopes to alleviate escalating housing costs and rapid urbanization by…
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Andrew Murphy
Robotics Outlook 2025: Demand Exceeding Expectations
We introduced our 10-year outlook for robotic adoption across the industrial, commercial, military, and domestic markets in June 2017. Over the last two years, the level of adoption has exceeded our initial expectations across all verticals. We believe the aggregate…
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iRobot
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Andrew Murphy
Frontier Tech Spotlight: iRobot’s Home Robotics
The Loup Frontier Tech Index tracks the performance of publicly-traded companies that influence the future of technology including AI, robotics, autonomous vehicles, computer perception, and virtual and augmented reality. We will be publishing periodic pieces to highlight specific companies in…
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Andrew Murphy
Frontier Tech Tracker: Q1 2019
This piece marks the first in a quarterly series to track the progress of frontier tech, as measured by the Loup Frontier Tech Index. The index tracks the performance of publicly-traded companies that influence the future of technology including AI,…
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Andrew Murphy
How Frontier Tech Will Benefit Humanity
Frontier tech has the potential to profoundly impact humanity for better and for worse. That potential is not lost on us. In order to address the downside risks, we published an ethical code for investing: Invest in high-integrity founders making products…
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Andrew Murphy
AI’s Quest to Deliver Empathy
As we exit the information age and enter the automation age, concern has (justifiably) arisen around the topic of disruption in the labor market. What human jobs will be replaced? We consider that question from the standpoint of labor specialization.…
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Andrew Murphy, Will Thompson
Robot Fear Index: Increased Adoption May Be Fueling Concerns
Like many in the tech space, we believe robotics is changing the nature of work. However, public perception of robots is still a question mark. We developed our Robot Fear Index to measure and track the average consumer’s perception of robots. We…
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Loup Ventures
2018 Loup Ventures Holiday Gift Guide
Halo Sport Headset | $499 | A pair of headphones that utilizes neuropriming to improve workouts. Apple Watch Series 4 | $499 | Fall detection, an electrocardiogram, super-accurate fitness tracking, and cell connectivity make it the best smartwatch period. Plae Shoes |…
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