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	Podcast:		The Gradient Podcast
	Episode:		Max Braun: Teaching Robots to Help People in their Everyday Lives
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		01:22:51
	Publish Date:		2022-05-26 17:16:41
	Description:		In episode 27 of The Gradient Podcast, Andrey Kurenkov speaks to Max Braun, who leads the AI and robotics software engineering team at Everyday Robots, a moonshot to create robots that can learn to help people in their everyday lives. Previously, he worked on building frontier technology products as an entrepreneur and later at Google and X. Max enjoys exploring the intersection of art, technology, and philosophy as a writer and designer. Subscribe to The Gradient Podcast: Apple Podcasts \| Spotify \| Pocket Casts \| RSS Follow The Gradient on Twitter Outline: (00:00) Intro (01:00) Start in AI (5:45) Humanoid Research in Osaka (8:45) Joining Google X (12:15) Visual Search and Google Glass (15:58) Academia Industry Connection (18:45) Overview of Robotics Vision (26:00) Machine Learning for Robotics (32:00) Robot Platform (38:00) Development Process and History (43:35) QT-Opt (49:05) Imitation Learning (55:00) Simulation Platform (59:45) Sim2Real (1:07:00) SayCan (1:14:30) Current Objectives (1:17:00) Other Projects (1:21:40) Outro Episode Links: Max Braun’s Website Everyday Robots Simulating Artificial Muscles for Controlling a Robotic Arm with Fluctuation Introducing the Everyday Robot Project Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning from Robotic Manipulation (QT-Opt) Alphabet is putting its prototype robots to work cleaning up around Google’s offices Everyday robots are (slowly) leaving the lab Can Robots Follow Instructions for New Tasks? Efficiently Initializing Reinforcement Learning With Prior Policies Combining RL + IL at Scale Shortening the Sim to Real Gap Action-Image: Teaching Grasping in Sim SayCan I Made an AI Read Wittgenstein, Then Told It to Play Philosopher Get full access to The Gradient at thegradientpub.substack.com/subscribe
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