Kirthana Gopalakrishnan · "The Cognitive Revolution" · One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids
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Argues that foot-speed is not a limiting factor for robot utility and that research should focus on practical tasks rather than running speed
“Our superpower is to augment the researcher by running experiments end to end with all the infra failures automatically I think that's great and it accelerates our most in research by a factor 2 3 or 4”
“… very good RL controllers that are probably trained from motion imitation, and then fine-tuned with good RL that suits the robot's body… for the specific task of running really fast.”
“We now have a capability where we have an AI competence score factor. So it's not just can you complete the task, but how did you complete the task with AI?”
“The Gemini Robotics 2 kind of had this where both the Duo robot and the Apollo was doing the task. One was doing one and then it stops and the other one takes over.”
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