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#374 – Robert Playter: Boston Dynamics CEO on Humanoid and Legged Robotics
Lex Fridman Podcast
The DARPA Robotics Challenge
DARPA Robotics Challenge was when humanoid robots were tasked to do all kinds of, you know, manipulation, walking, driving a car. "I watched that challenge with kind of tears in my eyes eating popcorn," he says about the 2015 contest. The idea was have a general purpose robot that could do lots of different things and be almost entirely autonomous.
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