Pieter Abbeel: Making Robots Smart

from Radical Talks · host Radical Ventures

A feature interview with Pieter Abbeel,  an innovator at the cutting edge of where AI meets robotics. In this episode of Radical Talks, Radical Ventures Managing Partner Jordan Jacobs chats with Pieter about the impact of COVID19 on automation, how AI has revolutionized the field of robotics and they also share a few thoughts on how professional sports should be thinking about robot refs. Pieter Abbeel is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley where he is also director of the Robot Learning Lab. Peter is also co-founder of Covariant - a company that has built a universal AI platform for robotics (Radical Ventures is an investor in Covariant). For more thoughts and insights from Radical Ventures,  visit www.radical.vc.

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A feature interview with Pieter Abbeel, an innovator at the cutting edge of where AI meets robotics. In this episode of Radical Talks, Radical Ventures Managing Partner Jordan Jacobs chats with Pieter about the impact of COVID19 on automation, how AI has revolutionized the field of robotics and they also share a few thoughts on how professional sports should be thinking about robot refs. Pieter Abbeel is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley where he is also director of the Robot Learning Lab. Peter is also co-founder of Covariant - a company that has built a universal AI platform for robotics (Radical Ventures is an investor in Covariant). For more thoughts and insights from Radical Ventures, visit www.radical.vc.

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