robotic foundation models

also referred to as: robotic foundation model

4 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 31, 2026 by Sergey Levine · across every show →

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Mar 31, 2026 positive
Insight
Levine: Foundation Models Reduce Uncertainty Before Scaling Robot Hardware Manufacturing
“So, yes, making a robot at scale is difficult. Making a robot at scale is even more difficult if you don't know what kind of software's gonna run it afterwards, and you're not even sure whether it's the right kind of robot. So, I think one of the really valuab…”
Sergey Levine Mar 31, 2026 ▶ 55:26 World's Top Researcher on AI, LLMs, and Robot Intelligence · Invest Like The Best
Mar 31, 2026 positive
Opinion
Levine: General Robotics Models May Ultimately Be Easier Than Narrow Ones
“And part of the thesis of this company is that we believe that doing it at the full level of generality might actually in the long run be easier than trying to special case very specific narrow application domains.”
Sergey Levine Mar 31, 2026 ▶ 1:38 World's Top Researcher on AI, LLMs, and Robot Intelligence · Invest Like The Best
Mar 31, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2031
Levine: Robotic foundation models will adapt across diverse physical form factors
“And I think that in the future we'll have A robotic foundation model, which can then be adapted to all sorts of applications, and they might really run the gamut from like, you know, like bulldozers or something, to humanoids, to robotic arms like this thing, …”
Sergey Levine Mar 31, 2026 ▶ 8:17 World's Top Researcher on AI, LLMs, and Robot Intelligence · Invest Like The Best
Mar 31, 2026 bullish
Insight
Levine: General robot models onboard diverse tasks without task-specific engineering
“And I think that's like, there's something interesting there, because it suggests the power of generality, that when you have this kind of general system, you can really just, like, onboard all these crazy tasks without really doing anything particularly sophi…”
Sergey Levine Mar 31, 2026 ▶ 37:50 World's Top Researcher on AI, LLMs, and Robot Intelligence · Invest Like The Best
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