Innovation: Coming up with new ideas

创新:想出新点子

Boss Class from The Economist

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2025-05-12

35 分钟

第 2 季 第 1 集

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Forget the hammocks and ping-pong tables. Creativity takes work. Managers at Google, Lego and a pair of AI startups share advice on breaking through. To listen to the full series, subscribe to Economist Podcasts+. https://subscribenow.economist.com/podcasts-plus
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  • The Economist.

  • Tell us what we're looking at.

  • You're basically seeing the robots building.

  • I'm on a building site and wearing a hard hat.

  • I've never felt more handy.

  • I'm here because Salah Alfaji is showing me his vision of the future.

  • Alfaji isn't a builder.

  • He's not an architect.

  • He's the co-founder of a Dutch startup called Monumental.

  • It makes AI-driven...

  • Brick-claying robots.

  • And they work together.

  • They're coordinating.

  • One is laying mortar and the other one is pushing down the brick in there.

  • And they grab the brick from another robot, which is the brick supply one,

  • and that one can just drive off, grab more bricks, come back.

  • Teams of four-wheeled robots are working alongside human masons on a new residential property development about 25 minutes from Rotterdam.

  • The house is probably two storeys high?

  • Three?

  • Yes.