Lex Fridman Podcast
#97 – Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive
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Sertac Karaman is a professor at MIT, co-founder of the autonomous vehicle company Optimus Ride, and is one of top roboticists in the world, including robots that drive and robots that fly.
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EPISODE LINKS:
Sertac’s Website: http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/web/
Sertac’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/sertackaraman
Optimus Ride: https://www.optimusride.com/
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OUTLINE:
– Introduction
– Autonomous flying vs autonomous driving
– Flying cars
– Role of simulation in robotics
– Game theory and robotics
– Autonomous vehicle company strategies
– Optimus Ride
– Waymo, Tesla, Optimus Ride timelines
– Achieving the impossible
– Iterative learning
– Is Lidar is a crutch?
– Fast autonomous flight
– Most beautiful idea in robotics
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