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Russ Tedrake on Robotics, Physical AI, and the Future of Work
Physical AI is moving fast.
But Russ Tedrake says the biggest shift may not just be better robots. It may be the way robotics itself is changing.
In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Russ Tedrake, Toyota Professor at MIT and founder of a stealth physical AI startup, about why this moment in robotics feels different from past hype cycles.
Russ explains how machine learning has moved ahead of our theoretical understanding, and why that changes the role of robotics engineers. Instead of designing everything from first principles, teams are increasingly building systems they do…
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