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Ali Agha on Robot Hallucinations, Physics, and Real-World AI
Physical AI is moving into the real world.
But once a robot leaves the lab, Ali Agha says edge cases become the environment.
In this episode of Automated, recorded live at Automate in Chicago, Brian Heater speaks with Ali Agha, founder and CEO of FieldAI, about building autonomous robots that can operate safely in unpredictable, unstructured places.
Ali’s path to FieldAI runs through MIT, Qualcomm, NASA JPL, and DARPA. At Qualcomm, he worked to put autonomy on the low-power Snapdragon processor that would later fly aboard NASA’s Mars helicopter. At JPL, he led aerial mobility research and…
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