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#53 Jan Liphardt: The Battle Over Who Controls The Robots
I sit down with Jan Liphardt, founder of OpenMind and Stanford professor, to discuss an important question that will shape the future: who should control intelligent robots?
As AI and robotics converge, our economic and societal trajectory may hinge on whether robots become closed, black-box systems or open platforms that anyone can build on, audit, and deploy locally.
Jan and the team at OpenMind are building OM1: an open-source, AI-native software stack for robotic systems. Think of it as Android for humanoids, with an App Store where developers can ship new skills to robots in the real…
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