YC hosts discuss robot-use agents with Jaime and Vincent of Waddle Labs and Jay of RoboCurve, covering how general-purpose language models can control robots and how to make that control faster and more reliable.
YC Robotics Club host introduces the event’s robotics challenges, followed by talks from Stanford PhD student Marcel on robot memory, Stanford and Waymo researcher Milan on embodied reasoning, Tyler Lum on simulation-trained dexterity, Rerun CEO Nico on robotics businesses, and General Instinct founders Bill and Guanmin on faster world action models.
Qiong Wang, co-founder of Physical Intelligence, discusses general-purpose robotics, deployment, and startup opportunities with Y Combinator’s The Light Cone host.