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Jan Liphardt on Building the AI Brain for Humanoid Robots
Humanoid robots can walk, gesture, and look astonishingly capable in a polished demo.
Then Jan Liphardt bought one for his house, along with three quadruped robots, and discovered how quickly the illusion breaks. After charging the batteries and getting the humanoid to stand, it simply stood there. It could not become the R2-D2-like helper, companion, teacher, or coworker he had imagined.
In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Jan Liphardt, founder and CEO of OpenMind and associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, about the software, intelligence, and trust…
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