Sterling Anderson doesn’t think humanoid robots should be building cars

<figure> <img alt="GM product chief Sterling Anderson" data-caption="Sterling Anderson, General Motors’ chief product officer, delivers a speech during the brand&#039;s annual technology event in New York on October 21st, 2026. Photo: Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images | AFP via Getty Images" data-portal-copyright="AFP via Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/gettyimages-2300740947.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> Sterling Anderson, General Motors’ chief product officer, delivers a speech during the brand's annual technology event in New York on October 21st, 2026. Photo: Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images | AFP via Getty Images </figcaption> </figure> <p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">At a splashy event in New York City last week, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1014322/gm-onward-ai-ev-battery-compute-av">General Motors unveiled its new tech roadmap</a> centered on AI-driven vehicle development, advanced battery tech, high-powered car computers, and autonomous driving.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Some of this was old news: We already knew the automaker was developing hands-free, eyes-off driving automation and had been prototyping new battery chemistries. In a sense, the real purpose of the event was to showcase how all these pieces fit together. With its new "intelligence-defined vehicle" paradigm, GM is banking on artificial intelligence, centralized computing, and virtualized engineering to cut vehicle development timelines …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1018625/gm-sterling-anderson-interview-robots-ai-autonomous-data-privacy">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>