# Why AI companies may sell robots and smart glasses below cost > Source: > Published: 2026-08-11 05:51:00+00:00 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. "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) The 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).