The Promise of Generalist Robotic Policies

It was a big day in the lab – January 22, 2024, Kevin Black and I are providing a live demo of his robotic learning system to Hannah Fry, who is compiling a documentary on superintelligence. Our robot is hardly superintelligent, it would be outwitted by any housecat. But we hooked up speech to text, and it’s showtime.In a live robot demo, it’s hard to resist the temptation to challenge the machine with a new problem. Our guest takes off her watch – “put the watch on the towel.” The robot casts i...