A Moonshots panel watched video of Tesla's two-seat Cybercabs moving through Austin and spent most of the segment on a price: the roughly $30,000 the panel says Elon Musk wants to charge for the car, and what happens if ordinary people buy a handful each and put them to work. Their forecasts of twenty-cent miles and car-free city centers sit alongside Tesla's own more modest description of a limited Austin service — and alongside London, where Uber's first autonomous rides still carry a licensed driver.
On Moonshots, Peter Diamandis described a new Unitree humanoid as hitting 12.66 metres per second after three months of development. Salim Ismail said the lesson is to stop copying humans; Alex argued general-purpose robots will swallow the specialists; Emad Mostaque predicted extreme machines will be kept off the street, and Alex proposed consumer, industrial and military classes.
Uber is investing in Zipline and putting drone delivery into Uber Eats, with a target of one million deliveries a day by the end of 2029. On Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, the panel treated it as the clearest test yet of Uber's strategy of aggregating customers while other companies build and fly the machines — and of what happens if those suppliers decide to sell direct.
On Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, the panel walked through Waymo's sixth-generation driver: a purpose-built 5-nanometer chip, fewer but sharper cameras, and an autonomous-hardware estimate falling from $115,000 to $20,000. Peter had ridden in the new vehicle; Alex objected that the West is now white-labeling Chinese hardware, and argued Waymo is heading for full vertical integration.
After touring Unitree’s headquarters and factories, Alvin Graylin said research and demonstrations still dominate its robot purchases, while upper-torso models are finding more commercial demand. His argument is about engineering economics: repetitive work may need capable arms, but not the balancing, repairs and extra parts that come with legs.