{"slug": "why-ai-companies-may-sell-robots-and-smart-glasses-below-cost", "title": "Why AI companies may sell robots and smart glasses below cost", "summary": "Kevin Kelly says the next step for AI is spatial intelligence, as current models fail in robot bodies due to a lack of gravity, distance, and three-dimensional space understanding. He identifies the primary bottleneck as insufficient quality data, which may lead AI companies to sell robots and smart glasses below cost to gather it.", "body_md": "The next step for AI is [spatial intelligence](https://kevinkelly.substack.com/p/worldbuilding-with-spatial-intelligence'), says Kevin Kelly. Today's models learned from text, but fail when engineers put them in a robot body because they have no sense of gravity, distance, or three-dimensional space.\n\n\"The primary bottleneck restraining the arrival of this world model is the lack of sufficient quantity of quality data,\" Kelly says. — [Read the rest ](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/10/kevin-kelly-spatial-intelligence.html)\n\nThe post [Why AI companies may sell robots and smart glasses below cost](https://boingboing.net/2026/08/10/kevin-kelly-spatial-intelligence.html) appeared first on [Boing Boing](https://boingboing.net).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-ai-companies-may-sell-robots-and-smart-glasses-below-cost", "canonical_source": "https://boingboing.net/2026/08/10/kevin-kelly-spatial-intelligence.html", "published_at": "2026-08-11 05:51:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-11 18:41:04.120031+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "robotics", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Kevin Kelly", "Boing Boing"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-ai-companies-may-sell-robots-and-smart-glasses-below-cost", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-ai-companies-may-sell-robots-and-smart-glasses-below-cost.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-ai-companies-may-sell-robots-and-smart-glasses-below-cost.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/why-ai-companies-may-sell-robots-and-smart-glasses-below-cost.jsonld"}}