.@JanLiphardt is a Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford and the founder of OpenMind. Jan is building an open, decentralized ecosystem for real-world robotics and AI. We took Iris (the robot) for a walk across the street from their office and had a chat about the vision behind OpenMind. 00:17 – Intro 01:00 – Vision for OpenMind 03:01 – Software offering 08:23 – Future tasks 10:42 – Modular approach 14:08 – Jan's Bioengineering background 16:28 – Developer Access

Unitree just unveiled the new R1 humanoid. Starting at $5,900 and weighing only 25kg (55lb).

History made. Good job NEO!

Jensen says every future industrial company will need two factories: one to build the physical machines, and another AI factory to develop the intelligence powering them -- just like Tesla already does for cars.

Humanoid robots can fail and do unsafe things in countless ways – hardware malfunctions, software glitches, cyberattacks, freak edge cases, or human operator error. A hundred years ago, there were 20 vehicle accident deaths per 100 million miles in the US. Today, that number is under 1.5 – but not zero. Robots won’t be 100% safe – and maybe that shouldn’t be the expectation. We're in the “early automobile” phase for humanoids. We don’t yet have enough real-world data on robots working among people to define what “safe enough” truly means. But robots do need to be among people – to assist the elderly, and to take on dangerous, repetitive, and tedious tasks. We’ll need to establish reasonable safety standards that protect people without stalling progress. If we’re too risk-averse, we risk stagnation; if we’re too cavalier, we invite harm.

Optimus serving popcorn at the soft opening of Tesla’s first diner.

Eric Schmidt says robotics will completely transform the nature of work over the next few decades - but in the next 5–10 years, the impact will likely be positive for the job market.

Eric Jang weighs in on RL vs. supervised learning for humanoid robot manipulation tasks.

CL-3 robot by LimX Dynamics🕺

A fully 3D-printable, open-source robotic hand that costs less than $250.