S3 E12 Rocky Duan, from OpenAI to Covariant: Building Foundation Models for Robotic Automation

What's in this episode:

00:00:00 Rocky Duan
00:01:44 Sponsors: Index Ventures and Weights and Biases
00:02:54 Covariant
00:04:00 Warehouse pick and place
00:07:59 Real-world deployments
00:10:02 Full integrated solutions (vs. just AI)
00:13:04 Covariant's system in depth
00:22:08 Role of Foundation Models
00:30:17 The current frontier
00:39:01 AI robotics commercial applications
00:46:30 Why leaving OpenAI to found Covariant
00:50:44 Original learning to imitate and learning to reinforcement learn papers and evolution of the field
00:59:24 Productivity tips
01:03:06 Ways to relax

Guest links:
http://rockyduan.com/
https://covariant.ai
Learning to Reinforcement Learn: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02779
Learning to Imitate: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.07326

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https://wandb.com

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Host: Pieter Abbeel -- https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pabbeel
Production: Bo Obradovic.