Zaremba: OpenAI focuses robotics research on object manipulation
Wojciech Zaremba · An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator · May 17, 2017 · at 2:03
OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba discusses OpenAI's active research verticals with host Craig Cannon.
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“So in terms of robotics, we are working on manipulation. We think that manipulation is the complete, it's the one of the parts of robotics, which is the most unresolved.”
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