Robotics Research Update, with Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao of Google DeepMind

Google DeepMind researchers Keerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao discuss their latest breakthroughs in AI robotics. Including models that enable robots to understand novel objects, learn from human demonstrations, and operate under ethical constraints. The conversation covers six groundbreaking papers that showcase rapid progress towards general-purpose robotics.

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CHAPTERS :

(00:00) Introduction

(04:44) The Future of Robotics

(14:40) Sponsors : Brave / Omneky

(16:04) Inputs and Outputs

(24:03) A Leap Towards Generalist Robots

(32:08) Sponsors : Plumb / Squad

(33:52) Learning in Robotics

(41:12) Learning from On-the-Fly Examples

(41:57) Annotating Robot Actions

(50:17) Scaling and Safety

(01:03:05) Learning to Learn Faster

(01:08:43) Zero-Shot Learning

(01:15:15) Future Directions