The Lobster Is Loose, and It's Not Going Back: Peter Steinberger on Building OpenClaw at TED 2026
On April 18, 2026, Peter Steinberger walked onto the TED stage in Vancouver and said something that would land differently depending on where you sit in the AI world: “The lobster is loose, and it’s not going back.” For the uninitiated, OpenClaw — the AI agent framework Steinberger built that has accumulated over 247,000 GitHub stars and fundamentally shifted how developers think about personal AI — uses a lobster claw as its logo. The metaphor ran deeper than branding in his talk, titled “How I created OpenClaw, the breakthrough AI agent.” ...