The road to the home robot is one fraught with peril. The number of success stories it’s delivered can be counted on a single hand. The reasons for […]
Robotics Q&A with UC Berkeley’s Ken Goldberg
For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1: […]
Agility is using large language models to communicate with its humanoid robots
I’ve spent much of the past year discussing generative AI and large language models with robotics experts. It’s become increasingly clear that these sorts of technologies are primed […]
Robotics Q&A with Boston Dynamics’ Aaron Saunders
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Robotics Q&A with Meta’s Dhruv Batra
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Robotics Q&A with Toyota Research Institute’s Max Bajracharya and Russ Tedrake
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A tale of two research institutes
If you’re lucky, once a year you get to put together a panel built on pure kismet. Pairing Gill Pratt with Marc Raibert was exactly that for me. […]
TRI is developing a new method to teach robots overnight
Learning may well be the most exciting frontier in the whole of robotics. The field itself dates back decades. The 80s, for instance, brought exciting breakthroughs in learning […]