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Building a Robot People Actually Want

Aaron Edsinger left his job as director of robotics at Google to start a company called Hello Robot. Aaron’s problem is this: How do you build an affordable robot that people can use to solve real problems at home? The result is a robot that looks nothing like a person. In fact, it’s closer to a Roomba with an arm.

In this episode, Aaron explains:

Why home robots have barely progressed since the Roomba

Why simpler robots can be more useful than complex humanoids

Why the physical world is so much harder for AI than language

How robot safety is fundamentally a physics problem…

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