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Marc Raibert: belief

16 Feb 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #412 – Marc Raibert: Boston Dynamics and the Future of Robotics

“I think the basic paradigm for navigating a space is to get some kind of sensor that tells you where an obstacle is and what’s open, build a map and then go through the space.”

— Marc Raibert

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Speaker
Marc Raibert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
16 Feb 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Is it possible to observe, to watch a video like this without having an explicit model of what a bicycle looks like? I think it is, and I think that’s the kind of thing that people don’t recognize. Let me translate it to navigation. I think the basic paradigm for navigating a space is to get some kind of sensor that tells you where an obstacle is and what’s open, build a map and then go through the space. But if we were doing on the job training where I was giving you a task, I wouldn’t have to say anything about the room. We came in here, all we did is adjust the chair, but we didn’t say anything about the room and we could navigate it. So I think there’s opportunities to build that kind of navigation skill into robots and we’re hoping to be able to do that. So operate successfully under a lot of uncertainty.…

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