Q&A: How video helps build robot brains for physical AI
Robots could well be the next trillion-dollar tech opportunity, in no small part thanks to AI. Not surprisingly, that’s led to race by a variety of robotics companies to build industrial and humanoid robots to help (or replace) humans. And to help orient those devices visually in the real world, robot brains are being fed Youtube videos. The idea is to help them understand the environment in which they would work and to spur physical AI. Kate Shen, co-founder of startup Anaxi Labs, is following a different approach to training robot brains. She is crowdsourcing and supplying videos of people performing tasks, which she then shares with robotics makers. Human-scale video, she argues, is critical to train robots because it more accurately captures how robots should perform their tasks, depending on the circumstances around them. More broadly, the technique can also provide a clearer roadmap for physical AI. With that in mind, Computerworld spoke recently with Shen about Anaxi Labs’ phys