robotics foundation models
4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jan 24, 2024 by Peter Chen · across every show →
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Jan 24, 2024 neutral
Chen: Robotics foundation models diverge from multimodal models on precision
“There's really no, very, no precise grounding. And there's no precise understanding of the physical world that's naturally occurring on the internet. So that's, like, one of the first thing that you'll find Kind of the departure of robotics foundation models f…”
Mar 20, 2025 bullish
Chelsea Finn: Autonomous RL experience will play a huge role in robotics
“And then I also think that autonomous experience will play a huge role, just like we've seen in language models. After you get an initial language model, if you can use reinforcement learning to have the robot, the language model bootstrap on its own experienc…”
Mar 20, 2025 bearish
Chelsea Finn: Observational video alone cannot train robot foundation models
“I think that data can have a lot of value, but I think that by itself, it won't get you very far and I think that there's actually some really nice analogies you can make where for example, if you watch, like, an Olympic swimmer, swimmer race even if you had t…”