The Robot Brains Podcast
In each episode of The Robot Brains podcast, renowned artificial intelligence researcher, professor and entrepreneur Pieter Abbeel meets the brilliant minds attempting to build robots with brains. Pieter is joined by leading experts in AI Robotics from all over the world as he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines and rational robots. Host: Pieter Abbeel | Executive Producers: Alice Patel & Henry Tobias Jones | Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerji | Title Music: Alejandro Del Pozo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more in
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- Intelligent reportJitendra Malik: Building AI from the ground-up, sensorimotor before language
Published Aug 17, 2023
Jitendra MalikJitendra Malik, Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley discusses with host Pieter Abbeel building AI from the ground-up and sensorimotor before language. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlySeb Boyer of Farmwise: AI that helps feed the world
Published Aug 11, 2023
Seb Boyer of Farmwise discusses with host Pieter Abbeel AI that helps feed the world. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyJohn Schulman of OpenAI on ChatGPT: invention, capabilities and limitations
Published Aug 3, 2023
John Schulman, co-founder OpenAI, discusses with host Pieter Abbeel the invention, capabilities, and limitations of ChatGPT. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyYaniv Altshuler: reducing cow methane emissions with AI
Published Jul 26, 2023
Yaniv AltshulerYaniv Altshuler, MIT Media Lab researcher, joins Pieter Abbeel to discuss reducing cow methane emissions with AI and more. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyWoody Hoburg: NASA Astronaut directly from the International Space Station
Published Jul 12, 2023
Woody HoburgWoody Hoburg, a member of NASA’s Expedition 69 crew, joined Pieter Abbeel to discuss his life and work currently aboard the International Space Station.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyJesse Levinson of Zoox: reinventing personal transportation from the ground up
Published Jul 6, 2023
Jesse Levinson, co-founder and CTO of Zoox joins Pieter Abbeel to discuss reinventing personal transportation from the ground up. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter at @pabbeel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyNoam Brown: from Open AI on solving Poker and Diplomacy with AI
Published Jun 28, 2023
Noam BrownNoam Brown joins host Pieter Abbeel. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyStephen Balaban: building the most cost-effective AI cloud
Published Jun 21, 2023
Stephen BalabanStephen Balaban, CEO and founder of Lambda joins host Pieter Abbeel to discuss building the most cost-effective AI cloud.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyRocky Duan, Covariant CTO joins Pieter Abbeel
Published Jun 7, 2023
Rocky Duan, CTO of Covariant joins joins Host Pieter Abbeel.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyRaffaello D'Andrea: how drones can find misplaced items and put on art shows
Published May 24, 2023
Raffaello D'Andrea of Verity, Kiva Systems, and ETH Zurich joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss how drones misplace items and put on art shows. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyYejin Choi: teaching AI common sense and morality
Published May 17, 2023
Yejin ChoiYejin Choi joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss how we can teach AI common sense and morality and what ChatGPT can't do yet.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyGeoff Hinton Returns: the Godfather of AI on quitting Google to warn of AI risks
Published May 10, 2023
Geoff Hinton ReturnsGeoff Hinton, the "Godfather of AI" returns to the Robot Brains with Pieter Abeel to discuss quitting Google to warn of AI risks. Geoff and Peter discuss whether AI is smarter than people, the role of regulation, fusing human and artificial intelligence, and what Geoff's next steps will be. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- StandardSummaries onlyLukas Biewald of Weights and Biases: solving pain-points of AI researchers
Published May 3, 2023
Lukas Biewald of Weights and Biases joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss solving the pain-points of AI researchers and practitioners.Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyNando de Freitas of DeepMind: generalizable AI to benefit everyone
Published Apr 26, 2023
Nando de Freitas of DeepMind joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss generalizable AI to benefit everyone. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyRichard Socher: LLMs, You.com, AGI, Metamind, AIX Ventures
Published Apr 19, 2023
Richard SocherRichard Socher from You.com (and before that, Stanford, MetaMind, Salesforce) joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss the future of search, LLMs, AGI, You.com, Metamind, AIX Ventures. Subscribe to the Robot Brains Podcast today | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyRaluca Ada Popa: data privacy, AI, enclaves, confidential computing
Published Apr 12, 2023
Raluca Ada PopaRaluca Ada Popa from UC Berkeley, Opaque Systems, PreVeil joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss data privacy and AI, cloud enclaves, confidential and encrypted computing, differential privacy, PreVeil, and Opaque Systems. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT BRAINS PODCAST TODAY | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast and Twitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyAidan Gomez: transformers, LLMs, command and instruct models
Published Apr 5, 2023
Aidan GomezAidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss transformers, large language models, command and instruct models, prompt engineering, LLMs competitive landscape.Aidan is one of the researchers behind Attention is All You Need: the original transformer neural network paper which has proven the most impactful innovation in neural nets, and really all of AI in the past 10 years. In 2019, Aidan founded Cohere which is building the tools and APIs to make NLP part of ever
- StandardSummaries onlyAlexandr Wang: data, foundation models, RLHF, AI for defense
Published Mar 29, 2023
Alexandr WangAlexandr Wang from Scale AI joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss data, labeling, foundation models, LLMs, truthfulness, reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and AI for defense.SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT BRAINS PODCAST TODAY | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast andTwitter @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyChelsea Finn: meta-learning, editing LLMs, single-life RL
Published Mar 22, 2023
Chelsea FinnChelsea Finn joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss distribution shift, meta-learning, editing LLMs, single-life RL, and what can AI not (yet) do today. Chelsea is a renowned expert in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence. She is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department and the Electrical Engineering Department at Stanford University and is also a research scientist at Google Brain. Her research focuses on developing algorithms for robots and other intelligent systems
- StandardSummaries onlyYoshua Bengio: large language models, higher cognition, causality, working memory, responsible AI
Published Mar 15, 2023
Yoshua BengioYoshua Bengio joins Host Pieter Abbeel to discuss large language models, higher level cognition, causality, responsible AI, and human creativity. SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT BRAINS PODCAST TODAY | Visit therobotbrains.ai and follow us on YouTube at TheRobotBrainsPodcast, Twitter @therobotbrains, and Instagram @therobotbrains. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- StandardSummaries onlyTwitter Q&A with Geoff Hinton
Published Jun 8, 2022
Geoff HintonLast week, we were honored to have Professor Geoff Hinton join the show for a wide-ranging discussion inspired by insights gleaned from Hinton’s journey in academia, as well as past 10 years with Google Brain. The episode covers how existing neural networks and backpropagation models operate differently than how the brain actually works; the AlexNet/ImageNet breakthrough moment; the purpose of sleep; and why it’s better to grow our computers than manufacture them.As you might recall, we also gav
- StandardSummaries onlyGeoff Hinton on revolutionizing artificial intelligence... again
Published Jun 1, 2022
Over the past ten years, AI has experienced breakthrough after breakthrough in everything from computer vision to speech recognition, protein folding prediction, and so much more.Many of these advancements hinge on the deep learning work conducted by our guest, Geoff Hinton, who has fundamentally changed the focus and direction of the field. A recipient of the Turing Award, the equivalent of the Nobel prize for computer science, he has over half a million citations of his work. Hinton has spent
- StandardSummaries onlyClement Delangue of Hugging Face on building the GitHub of machine learning
Published May 25, 2022
Originally created to be an open domain conversational AI, your own ‘artificial BFF' that you could chat with when your real friends weren’t available — fast forward six years, and Hugging Face is the leading Natural Language Processing (NLP) start-up. The company is currently valued at $2B with over 10,000 companies using the open-source AI platform - including Bing, Apple, and Monzo.Our guest, Clement Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, believes in the sustainable long-term benefits of open-science
- StandardSummaries onlyAmit Aggarwal of THE YES is making AI fashionable
Published May 18, 2022
As we all re-entered society over the last year, after months of WFH sweatpants and t-shirts, a personal stylist would have been helpful. Well, now there’s AI for that - THE YES. By taking a quick style quiz, you’ll have daily product and brand recommendations and a personalized feed displaying exactly what you’re looking for — in your size, budget and preferences. The more you say “yes”, the more personalized your feed gets. Right now, the company only offers women clothes but may expand in the
- StandardSummaries onlySpotify's Gustav Söderström on machine learning to personalize user experiences
Published May 12, 2022
Music is universal. It transcends language. Melodies have the power to trigger strong emotions. In fact, our brains release dopamine - the “feel good” hormone - when we listen to music. Today’s guest, Spotify’s Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström, has been helping to bring the magic of music, personalized playlists, and more recently, podcasts to people around the world. He’s also led the platform to personalize individual content experiences with the help of artificial intelligence. Pieter and
- StandardSummaries onlyAdam Bry of Skydio is leading the next generation of autonomous drones
Published May 4, 2022
When you are skiing down a mountain, riding your bike along a forest trail, or surfing 6-footers, it is hard enough just to concentrate on what you are doing, let alone try to capture a video of the moment. But what if you could hire a professional videographer to follow you and capture every move?Well, now you can in the form of AI-powered drones from Skydio. While personal use is just one application, the company has found success across a multitude of use cases. In this episode, we’re joined
- StandardSummaries onlyCatapult Sports on AI that is changing the game
Published Apr 27, 2022
Sports and artificial intelligence aren’t two areas that often intersect. That has begun to change as IoT and wearables have begun to be adopted by more professional sports teams. The data that’s produced can be used to identify areas of performance improvement, potential future injuries and insights about team structure on the field. Today’s guest, Param Hegde, former CTO of Catapult Sports joined the show to share how the company is using data-driven intelligence to help athletes reach the top
- StandardSummaries onlyAmit Prakash of ThoughtSpot on empowering companies to make data-driven decisions
Published Apr 20, 2022
Every business wants to be a data-driven business these days; basing decisions on tangible facts derived from historical precedents and clear-cut numbers. But that’s a lot easier said than done.This episode’s guest, Amit Prakash, is on a mission to change that. Based on his experience working on Microsoft’s Bing and then at Google working on Google Brain, he co-founded Thoughtspot to make querying data as easy as having a simple conversation. Thoughtspot provides artificial intelligence (AI) and
- StandardSummaries onlyEric Horvitz of Microsoft on AI for the greater good
Published Apr 13, 2022
On Episode 15 of Season 2, we’re joined by Eric Horvitz, Microsoft’s first ever Chief Scientific Officer. His research spans theoretical and practical challenges with developing systems that perceive, learn, and reason. He’s the company’s top inventor since joining in 1993 with over 300 patents filed. He has been elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and
- StandardSummaries onlyAndrew Song of Whisper AI on solving hearing loss with AI
Published Apr 6, 2022
The five senses...touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing. They are critical to how we perceive the world around us. Without them, we are lost. And as we grow older, they tend to weaken particularly when it comes to sight and hearing. Today’s guest, Andrew Song, is the co-founder and CEO of Whisper AI, and he is on a mission to help give people great hearing regardless of their age.After graduating from the University of Waterloo with degrees in mathematics and computer science, Andrew went to w
- StandardSummaries onlyDean Ayanna Howard on why AI can never be truly unbiased
Published Mar 30, 2022
For Episode 13, we're joined by industry pioneer, Dean Ayanna Howard. She began working at NASA's JPL at 18-years old to help build the Mars Rover and never slowed down from there. She is a successful roboticist, entrepreneur, educator, and is the author of the recent book: Sex, Race, and Robots: How to be Human in the Age of AI. Dr. Ayanna Howard is the current dean of The Ohio State University College of Engineering. Before joining Ohio State, she was Professor at Georgia Tech, where she was t
- StandardSummaries onlyShakir Mohamed of DeepMind on the power of deep learning
Published Mar 23, 2022
If any company is at the top of most people’s minds when it comes to AI, it’s DeepMind. They have been at the forefront of many major breakthroughs including AlphaGo, the first AI to beat a human Go world champion and AlphaFold, which revolutionized protein structure prediction. Our guest on this week’s episode, Shakir Mohamed, joined DeepMind in the early days and has been an instrumental part of their success ever since. Shakir is a Senior Staff Scientist at DeepMind, an Associate Fellow at th
- StandardSummaries onlyRevolution Robotics is bringing a robotics team to every school
Published Mar 16, 2022
It doesn’t matter what country you live in, or what industry you build a career in, STEM skills are increasingly important - particularly for children and students who are yet to join the world of work. Introducing robotics to children at a young age in the same way that we enroll them in soccer or piano lessons should be a real consideration. However, the participation costs are often so prohibitive that it's out of the question for most schools and parents.On Episode 11 of Season 2, we're join
- StandardSummaries onlyGeorge Netscher of SafelyYou on the role of AI for fall detection
Published Mar 9, 2022
On Episode 10 of Season 2, Pieter is joined by the CEO of SafelyYou, George Netscher. Pieter and George first met at UC Berkeley's AI lab when George was pursuing a PhD with a clear picture in his mind of how he would use it. And seven years later, George has stayed true to his mission of building AI to help people with dementia live better. SafelyYou’s AI is raising the profile of technology solutions in the fight against dementia. While still a young company, SafelyYou has successfully reduced
- StandardSummaries onlyFlora Tasse on building computer vision-based customer service models
Published Mar 2, 2022
For Episode 9, we welcome an AI researcher and entrepreneur who has been on a remarkable journey, Flora Tasse. She grew up in Cameroon, where she completed her Bachelors in Mathematics at the University of Buea. She received a second Bachelors and a Masters in Computer Science at Rhodes and Cape Town in South Africa. She then went on to the UK, and earned her PhD in 3D computer vision at Cambridge, as well as interning at Microsoft and Google. Rather than joining a tech giant, Flora decided inst
- StandardSummaries onlyHow Wayve is teaching cars to drive
Published Feb 23, 2022
For Episode 8, Pieter Abbeel interviews Alex Kendall, the co-founder and CEO of Wayve, the London-based company pioneering AI technology to enable autonomous vehicles to drive in complex, never-seen-before environments. Alex is a world expert in deep learning and computer vision. Before founding Wayve, Alex was a research fellow at Cambridge University where he earned his Ph.D. in Computer Vision and Robotics.Wayve is building global momentum for the use of deep learning to solve self-driving. A
- StandardSummaries onlyMeet Ross Wightman, a prolific contributor to the AI/ML open source movement
Published Feb 16, 2022
One thing every AI researcher knows is that most foundational AI research is actually happening in open-source. Indeed, most AI researchers publish their research findings openly on arxiv, a freely accessible, open repository originally mostly used by physics researchers. And the code underlying many AI breakthroughs is often published on github, where it’s readily accessible to anyone.Historically, these papers and codebases have originated from the leading universities and tech companies. But
- StandardSummaries onlyCathy Wu of MIT on the future of our highways and roads
Published Feb 9, 2022
Previous guests on our podcasts - from Tesla, Aurora, Waymo - are building the brains of the cars and trucks of our future. This episode's guest, Professor Cathy Wu, is building the roadways of our future. She is building machine-learning to predict the ideal infrastructure for the world's future mobility, the cost of building this infrastructure, and most importantly, what's the solution that eliminates traffic jams and gridlock forever.Currently at MIT's Institute for Data, Systems, and Societ
- StandardSummaries onlyTanay Tandon of Athelas on the future of blood diagnostics using machine-learning
Published Feb 2, 2022
Analyzing a person’s blood (and the cells within it) is often used to diagnose many health conditions and illnesses, from infections to leukemia and bone marrow disorders. Generally it's a long and expensive process. You have to go to the doctor, have a sample taken, wait for a couple of days for a trained professional to analyze the blood, and finally get your diagnosis. Athelas is using machine learning to dramatically improve the speed and efficiency of testing blood cells. From a simple fing
- StandardSummaries onlyWhat matters in tech according to Benedict Evans
Published Jan 26, 2022
*Warning* Explicit language used in the episode.Benedict Evans, long-time technology analyst and occasional VC at firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, is well-known for his analysis of mobile, media and technology trends. He writes a popular weekly newsletter on the most important happenings in tech and he is also famous for his annual presentations that analyze macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. He’s a voice of reason trying to sort out the technology issues of the day. In this epis
- StandardSummaries onlyDavid Rolnick on how machine learning can help tackle climate change
Published Jan 19, 2022
While the world’s temperature rises, there are scores of scientists working around the globe to study causes and solutions. One scientist in particular, David Rolnick, has stood out as a pioneer of machine-learning in the fight against climate change.David successfully built a broader movement including others like Andrew Ng, Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis, and Jennifer Chayes to champion the amazing possibilities that exist at the intersection of AI and the climate. He organized the first-ever e
- StandardSummaries onlyMike Fisher of Etsy talks AI and E-commerce
Published Jan 12, 2022
In the second episode of Season Two of The Robot Brains, Pieter Abbeel interviews the Chief Technology Officer of Etsy, Mike Fisher. Etsy is a global online marketplace, where people come together to make, sell, buy, and collect unique items. It was founded in 2005 as an accessible listing site for DIY crafters and artists to sell their wares before blossoming into a widely-respected and mainstream online shopping site.It still maintains its whimsical brand balanced by its listing on the NASDAQ
- StandardSummaries onlySergey Levine explains the challenges of real world robotics
Published Jan 5, 2022
In Episode One of Season Two, Host Pieter Abbeel is joined by guest (and close collaborator) Sergey Levine, professor at UC Berkeley, EECS. Sergey discusses the early years of his career, how Andrew Ng influenced him to become interested in machine learning, his current projects, and his lab's recent accomplishments.The conversation concludes with Sergey's view on the dangers of machines not being intelligent enough and his advice for students seeking a career in robotic.| SUBSCRIBE TO THE ROBOT
- StandardSummaries onlySeason Two: Trailer
Published Dec 26, 2021
Season TwoJoin host Pieter Abbeel on Season 2 of the The Robot Brains podcast as he explores how far humanity has come in its mission to create conscious computers, mindful machines, and rational robots. Episode 1 of Season Two will air on 1/5/22.Over the course of the season, you’ll learn about robots and AI that can drive you around a city, diagnose your health symptoms, and even keep your grandma safe from falls. Subscribe right now in Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you like to get your podcasts t
- StandardSummaries onlyIlya Sutskever explains the origins of deep learning
Published Aug 25, 2021
On the last episode (Ep.22) of Season One of The Robot Brains Podcast our guest is Ilya Sutskever. Ilya is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of OpenAI. As a PhD student at Toronto, Ilya was one of the authors on the 2012 AlexNet paper that completely changed the field of AI, resulting in the widespread adoption of deep learning, resulting in the avalanche of AI breakthroughs we’ve seen the past 10 years. After the AlexNet breakthrough in computer vision, at Google, among many other breakthrough
- StandardSummaries onlyJosh Lessing on AppHarvest and the future of robotic farming
Published Aug 18, 2021
On the penultimate episode (Ep.21) of Season One of The Robot Brains Podcast our guest is Josh Lessing. Josh is the CTO of AppHarvest, one of the leading pioneers in Agricultural Technology (or AgTech). Farming is one of the world's oldest industries, but in many ways the technologies and techniques used by farmers hasn't progressed much in centuries. But with recent advances in AI and robotics, AgTech looks certain to transform the entire industry. At AppHarvest, Josh is helping to build some o
- StandardSummaries onlyFei-Fei Li on revolutionizing AI for the real world
Published Aug 11, 2021
On Ep.20 of The Robot Brains Podcast, Pieter Abbeel is joined by Fei-Fei Li. Her legendary status in the field of AI precedes her on our podcast because she's been discussed frequently by many of our previous guests - many of whom are her former students. She is the Sequoia Capital Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, Co-Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence (Stanford HAI). She was also the leading scientist and instigator of ImageNet, argu
- StandardSummaries onlyBoris Krumrey explains UiPath's dream of a robot for every office worker
Published Aug 4, 2021
Joining us for episode 19 of The Robot Brains Podcast is Boris Krumrey, Global VP of Automation Solutions at UI Path. We have all heard of physical robots, autonomous machines that help humans with tasks in the real world, but what about "software robots"? Digital helpers who can be built, trained and used to help increasingly digital workforces with their computer based tasks - from HR teams onboarding new hires to updating spreadsheets or presentation slides. UIPath is a market leader in this
- StandardSummaries onlyChris Urmson on Aurora and the future of autonomous vehicles
Published Jul 28, 2021
In episode 18 of The Robot Brains Podcast our host Pieter Abbeel meets Chris Urmson. Chris is one of the world-leading pioneers in self-driving. He led the Google self-driving project for several years - which later became Waymo. Then, in 2017, he co-founded his own self-driving company, Aurora where he is currently the CEO. In this episode, he discusses his involvement of the DARPA Grand Challenge, departure from Google, and his (and Aurora's) vision for the future of autonomous vehicles. | Vis
- StandardSummaries onlyPeter Puchwein explains KNAPP's robotics-enhanced vision for the future of the logistics industry
Published Jul 21, 2021
In episode 17 of our host Pieter Abbeel meets Peter Puchwein. Peter is the Vice President of Innovation at KNAPP, one of the world market leaders in warehouse logistics and automation. During their interview Pieter and Peter discuss the many ways that KNAPP has "innovation" in its DNA: from the company's forward-thinking founder Gunter Knapp back in 1952 to the multi-million investments made in hardware and software R&D today. Peter explains how the use of industrial robotics in particular are t