Adcock: Humanoids will combine off-board cloud brains with fast on-board models
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Brett Adcock, founder of Figure AI, explains the future compute split between cloud and on-board hardware in humanoid robots to Nikhil Kamath.
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“I think you will certainly have off board reasoning. I think you will have, I think you'll have both. I think you'll have off-board, like, a big brain off-board that you need to talk to that can do very complex maybe planning and reasoning. You'll have on-board something that can move, like, much faster and much more reliable, and then you'll even have smaller, even smaller models living on-board. We call it the S-one level, like, system one level, that are doing, like, very fast kind of, like, really quick closed-loop motor control.”
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