Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hails OpenClaw as helping the future of robotics, but calls for controls, 'so we can realize the incredible future potential of the technology that we’re building'
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Huang talking about controls for OpenClaw in the same breath as its upside is a tell—governance and safety will be baked into the robotics stack, not bolted on. If you’re building on these platforms, budget time and talent for policy, logging, and constraint design as first-class work, not “later” work.
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