Vogt: Modern imitation learning solves unstructured home environments where classical mapping fails
Kyle Vogt · No Priors Ep. 102 | With The Bot Company CEO Kyle Vogt · Feb 20, 2025 · at 14:16
Kyle Vogt, founder of The Bot Company and former CEO of Cruise, explains the technological paradigm shift making domestic robotics feasible.
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“Using classical approaches, Where you have computer vision and you're trying to like reconstruct three D objects or fit to a map would make this like a really, really challenging and computationally intensive problem. Moving to more modern techniques like end to end learning or imitation learning, even reinforcement learning. Now if you can teleoperate a robot and demonstrate how to do something or collect data from humans in some way, or from internet videos, you can kind of imbue a robot with a sense of common sense and ability to make, make sense of these unstructured environments.”
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