Lior Tal (@liortal)

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Tripling our orders in 2025 reflects real momentum and real customer confidence in DriveMod technology. This growth came from our entire team's relentless execution in making our technology indispensable to enterprise operations.

No doubt, the autonomous industrial revolution is accelerating.

$CYN #AutonomousTech

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When our autonomous vehicle orders triple in a year, it signals a major industry shift. We're transforming how manufacturing and logistics operate with DriveMod technology.

Here's what we accomplished in 2025: cyngn.com/pr/cyngn-tripl… $CYN #AutonomousVehicles #IndustrialAutomation
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Lior Tal @liortal 13h

Someone we talked with told us the operators at his plant have a name for the empty return leg of their haul route: the victory lap.

The victory lap exists because forklifts were never designed for hauling. They’re built to lift. Put one on a long point-to-point run and the math turns ugly: one pallet out, nothing back, all shift. Half the route is a parade.

Floors always know where the waste is. They joke about it long before anyone measures it.

Lior Tal @liortal 4d

Ford’s number for the skilled trades gap is 1.7 million openings a year for the next decade + the country is training about 55 people for every 100 it needs.

More training is the right fix, but it takes years. What a plant can do sooner is look at how it’s using the skilled people it already has. In a lot of plants the person who can troubleshoot a line is also the one getting pulled away to move material.

Lior Tal @liortal 6d

A capital request for automation is usually a spreadsheet of projected savings that one person has to defend up the chain. They do the legwork, check whether it’s feasible, talk to their boss, and send it up if the boss is on board.

The projections in it are the vendor’s, so the skeptics in the room treat them as marketing, and that one person ends up defending numbers they didn’t make.

Lior Tal @liortal Nov 3

The cloud lowered the barriers to starting and scaling software businesses. Robotics could do something similar for businesses that depend on physical work.

As robotic labor becomes more economically viable, more businesses could take on work and scale operations that would have been difficult to support before.

a16z @a16z Nov 2

Josh Gruenstein of Tutor Intelligence on how to value a robot: "You take how much work a robot can do and you divide it by its cost, and that's it. Everything else is commentary."

If robots can do that work for less, he says the market is "all physical work done."

One Wall Street firm's view of the scale, in a forecast of annual robot sales:
- 2026: 29 million
- 2030: 93 million
- 2040: 605 million
- 2050: 1.4 billion

"We're just gonna have way more factories in the same way that we have way more businesses because the cloud and all of the software tooling let people build new businesses."

"Anybody will be able to start a business in the physical world. Anybody will be able to scale a business in the physical world if we kind of have this infinite flexible labor substrate."

@joshgruenstein @tutorintel

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