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Clara Vu on Why General-Purpose Robots Are So Hard to Ship
Humanoid robots are attracting enormous investment and dominating the conversation around physical AI.
But Clara Vu believes the form factor is a trap. The more a robot is expected to look and work like a person, the more people assume it has human-level capabilities. In reality, forcing spinning motors into a body designed around tendons can add unnecessary constraints before engineers even begin solving the task.
In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with veteran roboticist and Veo Robotics co-founder Clara Vu about what nearly three decades of building autonomous systems has…
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