Brad Porter is the founder and CEO of Collaborative Robotics, where they are building robots that will seamlessly blend into our surroundings. They've raised funding from Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Lux Capital. He was previously the CTO of Scale AI. Prior to that, he was the VP of Robotics at Amazon. He has a bachelors and masters degree from MIT.
Brad's favorite book: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (Author: Virginia Lee Burton)
(00:00) Introduction
(02:11) Collaborative Robots Explained
(05:17) Building Blocks in Robotics
(11:01) Architecture of a Cobot
(14:12) Safety in Industrial Settings
(18:08) Sensors in Cobots
(20:20) Power Consumption and Optimization
(23:31) Zonal Compute Architecture
(26:34) AI Models for Task Planning
(30:32) Reasoning and Human Interaction
(35:00) Simulation to Real-World Deployment
(38:49) Multi-Robot Coordination
(41:57) Technological Breakthroughs in Robotics
(45:29) Rapid Fire Round
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