Levine: Foundation models will trigger a PC-like explosion in robotics applications
Sergey Levine · World's Top Researcher on AI, LLMs, and Robot Intelligence · Invest Like The Best · Mar 31, 2026 · at 6:09
Physical Intelligence co-founder and UC Berkeley professor Sergey Levine explains why building foundational robotic intelligence models is necessary for application developers to innovate.
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“And I think something like that might happen in the world of robotics, but it can't happen today because if you want to put together some cool new robotics applications, some cool new robotics idea, you kind of have to build this, like, monstrous stack, and you need to basically solve the intelligence problem. But if there is a solution that someone can build on top of, there's a foundation model that you can prompt that'll provide, like, basic functionality, and then you can maybe fine tune it a little bit or adjust it in some way to your application. Now, it actually makes it a lot more tractable for lots of people, lots of companies, lots of individuals to try all sorts of different things.”
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