Listen, by this time next year, we’re going to see a lot more self-described robotics experts.

What will make them an expert? I don’t know, but their claim to fame will be that they’ve been into robotics longer than you have.

In two years, you’re going to start hearing more and more about how robotics will change everything—how the blue-collar market might vanish, how everything is shifting to robotics. You’ll have a few folks in your feed declaring that now is the big moment for robotics: you better get with the program or go home.

In three years, everyone is going to be a robotics expert—or at least that’s what they’ll say. You’re going to have folks popping in, talking about how robotics will change B2B sales, how robotics will change production, how robotics will change content, how robotics will change art. Apparently, robotics will be the next big industrial revolution, bigger than the Internet itself.

How do I know this? Because that’s what happens with every hype cycle. People smell the money. There are no gatekeepers, no one around to separate fact from bullshit, but there will be a lot of experts.

And why do I say robotics? I knew the next big tech hype cycle would be robotics because it already dovetails with AI.

My personal opinion doesn’t matter though, though, because Jensen Huang was up there banging the drum about robotics at CES, saying—and I quote—“The ChatGPT moment for general robotics is just around the corner.”

It is officially the beginning of the robotics tech hype cycle.