Sergey Levine

“The central thesis of the episode is that the focus on humanoid robots misses the deeper revolution: general-purpose foundation models that can control *any* robot body. The insight is that the intelligence layer, not the hardware, is the scarce and valuable asset.”

“The RTX project — pulling data from ~30 academic robotics labs — demonstrated that a single generalist model trained on diverse data outperforms the best specialized models each lab had individually developed. ... 'What we found is that the generalist model on average was about 50% more successful than whatever each individual lab was developed.'”

“Sergey Levin, who is now my co-founder at Physical Intelligence, and one of the pioneers of deep learning in robotics.”

“That person was Sergey Levin, who is now my co-founder at Physical Intelligence, and one of the pioneers of deep learning in robotics.”