pete florence

“It feels like, to give an analogy, it feels like we are in the kind of GPT-III era for robotics models you know, in terms of the development of language models, right? So, like, we're starting to have models like Gen-one That feel like they are getting to brea…”

“When you have individuals that are able to just like have a little you know, little fleet of robots that can help them like you know, just build things that maybe would have taken Decades and large numbers of people, and now we can just iterate on that, like, …”

“Pairing human-level intelligence with even very simple you know, as you said, Vivek end-effectors, like, you can really accomplish a lot in the world.”

“Of course, like, different types of scientific automation have, has existed for decades, but very generalized capabilities to like, be in a science lab and use your hands to pull off all the manipulations that are needed to run all these scientific experiments…”

“Yes, if you're going to make a significant robotics foundation model like there's, you don't have any chance of just downloading enough data from the internet to do that. You really have to go find some way to access it.”

“The main blocker the entire time has been the intelligence, not so much like the sort of mechanical ability.”

“We would literally take a large language model and we would turn it into the robot brain, which this is like very simply stated, but honestly at the time was like a kind of a crazy idea to do because everybody was just trying to make robot brains in many other…”