Grace Brown, founder and CEO of Andromeda, discusses building Abby as a socially intelligent humanoid companion deployed in nursing homes in Australia and the United States.
Chelsea Finn of Physical Intelligence discusses building reliable, general-purpose robots, drawing on office coffee service, factory box assembly, and laundry-folding examples.
Theophile Gervet, co-founder of Genesis, explains at Actuate 26 how the company combines human manipulation data, simulation, AI, hardware, and deployment to build general-purpose robots.
Chris, research lead at Agility, moderates a Foxglove panel at Actuate 26 with Ben Burchfield of Walden Robotics, Arman Shiriotti of Shield AI, Danfei of NVIDIA, and John MacDonald of Bonsai Robotics on whether robots benefit more from VLAs or world action models.
Pulkit Agrawal, co-founder and CEO of Aether Robotics and an MIT professor, discusses how force-aware learning could make robot manipulation both fast and general at Foxglove’s Actuate 26.
Pete Florence of Generalist discusses the path toward robots that learn physical tasks from demonstrations and describes the company’s Gen 1.5 model at Actuate 26; Foxglove is the channel.
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