robotic manipulation

2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Apr 26, 2025 by Lachy Groom · across every show →

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Apr 26, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Groom: Physical Intelligence prioritizes manipulation tasks over conversational UI
“It's not a big focus of ours right now, really. We're so focused on, on manipulation and economically valuable tasks and more so than that, the fundamental building blocks that we think gets us from here to physical intelligence.”
Lachy Groom Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 25:10 The Race to Create General-Purpose Robots | Karol Hausman & Lachy Groom on TBPN
Apr 26, 2025 negative
Insight
Hausman: Simulation fails for robotic manipulation due to real-world object diversity
“It hasn't worked nearly as well for manipulating objects or working with your hands, and I think the reason for that is then the difficulty isn't about, like, how do you move your hands? It's more about the world that you're manipulating, and that is much hard…”
Karol Hausman Apr 26, 2025 ▶ 8:19 The Race to Create General-Purpose Robots | Karol Hausman & Lachy Groom on TBPN
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