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Dave Turetsky: Roomba Succeeded by Solving a Task Robots Can Do Imperfectly
“The most popular robot ever in the history of robotics is the room of vacuum cleaner, because they found this one task that a robot can do poorly and still make you happy.”
Dave Turetsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:45 a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
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Touretzky: Tabletop robot end-user control unlocks useful humanoid domestic robotics
“If you can get vector to push little things around on the tabletop, and you can make it easy enough to express your intent that the average person who's not a computer science major can do that, then you can scale up to the humanoid robot that's gonna cook you…”
Dave Turetsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 19:06 a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
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Turetsky: Advanced computing power compensates for physical hardware defects in robotics
“Computing power will make up for a lot of hardware defects. So if you have a underpowered Unreliable manipulator, but lots of good computing power. You can make that manipulator do amazing things, right?”
Dave Turetsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 32:28 a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
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