The Future of Robotics

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Apex CI was founded in 2017, a little over five years ago. It's based on an open-source software framework called ROS that can accelerate prototyping of robotic ideas by two days instead of weeks and years. The company then rewrote Ross into an automotive production software for the Tesla Autopilot system which took 10 years from prototype to product.

The story of automated driving often starts with the DARPA Challenges of 2004-07, but for Jan Becker the story starts well before then. On this week's episode, the AV pioneer and founder of Apex AI describes his own path through a tumultuous decade for the technology, and how the class he teaches at Stanford has evolved to include a variety of critical non-technical lessons.