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@TheSighphiguy
April 28, 2026 at 4:36 pm
does anyone “NOT” think that SOME evil dude is going to eff A.I. up for the entire planet?
someone that rhymes with Clark Truckerberg?
if A.I. has access to the internet,…then things WILL go wrong. 100%
@aNicerPlace
April 28, 2026 at 4:37 pm
11:50 they’re not inverted, those are effectively their heels and ankles (see evolution through environmental pressures).
@EveLord-hx1me
April 28, 2026 at 4:46 pm
Still waiting for ROBOT HORSE to ride on😁
@yawzheek6722
April 28, 2026 at 4:53 pm
The guy is great but some of the questions? “What’s so special about the Mars rover?” I mean… what ISN’T?
@mw66683
April 28, 2026 at 4:59 pm
FX 2 (80s movie) had robots mimicing humans… nothing new.
@walking_on_earth
April 28, 2026 at 5:13 pm
“I think if we put AI in charge of our weapons or something silly like that, then bad things will happen”
Wow, just like what the United States military is doing right now?
@0xlaptopsticker29
April 28, 2026 at 5:26 pm
I want wired to bring on Sergey Levine or Chelsea Finn on here to talk about reinforcement learning and robotics
@2CanOG
April 28, 2026 at 5:29 pm
That’s how skynet begins. Simple mechanics to end of civilization. 😅
@kuromameshiba4418
April 28, 2026 at 5:44 pm
Where is my tachikoma?
@retrobreutje
April 28, 2026 at 6:07 pm
Professor? He simply does not understand what’s going on at all. BS
@killersquirel11
April 28, 2026 at 6:22 pm
4:54 “give a ladder to a quadruped and it won’t know what to do”
My grandpa’s dog was very good at climbing ladders and would frequently follow him up
Downside is the dog definitely didn’t know what to do when attempting to go back down
@Vincent67337
April 28, 2026 at 6:28 pm
This guy killed it.
@alexissvetrev
April 28, 2026 at 6:43 pm
Lost me at AI is not sentient… this guy does not understand what sentenience means. Yes they get to the answer in a different way we do but they get to actionable answers none the less, that can the be executed by robots/machines.
@jaketheauroran
April 28, 2026 at 6:49 pm
I’ve never heard someone use proprioception in a sentence before. Awesome 👍
@tazimusics
April 28, 2026 at 7:02 pm
I like how excited you are to welcome the ai overlords. Like, you are ACTIVELY THE PROBLEM DUDE
@Panic175
April 28, 2026 at 7:06 pm
So it can become trans?
@tazimusics
April 28, 2026 at 7:10 pm
Why would you want a humanoid robot with 6 arms and 4 legs? Ask a drummer.
@tazimusics
April 28, 2026 at 7:22 pm
They do NOT say “we use 10 % of our brains”. They say “It was a stupid myth that we only use 10% of our brains”.
And you hired this guy?
@danboy12342
April 28, 2026 at 7:27 pm
Caltech baby
@DerrillGuilbert
April 28, 2026 at 7:43 pm
Elon Musk thinks LiDAR is more expensive, and he cuts corners anywhere he can to save.
@jaypatton217
April 28, 2026 at 7:44 pm
Professor did a great job. Would love to see him back for another episode. 👍🏽👍🏽
@aozgolo
April 28, 2026 at 8:12 pm
I really appreciate the answer to the “Future Terminator” question. I’ve been trying to tell people for years that the problem isn’t AI or Robots gaining sentience and taking over (they are literally running the same algorithms they’ve had for decades, just at larger scale) the real threat of AI is dumb humans giving AI control over things they have no business being in control of.
@SchrogindersGreed
April 28, 2026 at 8:16 pm
Yeah, basically what I understand about lidar, Waymo is focusing on combining lidar with other detection systems to be the safest, and Tesla is betting that it’ll get as good as lidar (or good enough that people will not car), and if they are right, they will win because their car should be cheaper.
@KevinMora-k8s
April 28, 2026 at 8:21 pm
How many future food packs can I charge for repairing a gardening robot if the problem is the battery?
@Camryn-Qd
April 28, 2026 at 8:46 pm
Whoever is responsible for choosing the experts of these interviews deserves a raise. ..
@ivoryas1696
April 28, 2026 at 9:22 pm
Ironic.
A bot. 😅
@pixxxu6796
April 29, 2026 at 6:19 am
Please bring Aaron back! This video was so interesting. Honestly felt like it was less than a minute short…
@tommyjohnson43
April 29, 2026 at 8:12 am
Yea we have to have delivery robots because people are lazy af . People have no clue the trial and error that comes w this field of science .
@hi7hi7hi7hi7hi7
April 29, 2026 at 8:20 am
there is so many expert here, and people choose to ask those dumb question….jesus
@logandihel
April 29, 2026 at 8:24 am
I got to listen to Dr. Ames at a conference a few years ago. He is one of the best presenters in the math/robotics field and he does some very cool research
@paulrevere18
April 29, 2026 at 9:22 am
Remember that you’re oligarchs do not want a humanoid robot in every room, they want hundreds of them on their private estates and you and me are no longer relevant.
@paulrevere18
April 29, 2026 at 9:29 am
Musk doesn’t like lidar because it cost more and kills his profit margins on Tesla AND… he could give two 💩 s about safety.
@paulrevere18
April 29, 2026 at 9:26 am
As a robot, I can confirm this guy binaries.
@paulrevere18
April 29, 2026 at 9:26 am
Time for a roboboogie.
@YacineBenattia-f1d
April 29, 2026 at 9:36 am
Give us an interview about football⚽
@kirkshanghai
April 29, 2026 at 9:54 am
I feel like this episode had some of the dumbest questions, but he answered them very brilliantly.
@matthewbuchholtz4170
April 29, 2026 at 10:08 am
0:30 “more general delivery problem,” i.e., having to pay human beings for their labor
@adilsongoliveira
April 29, 2026 at 10:48 am
I’m pretty confident he was always at the top of his classes.. at least in the row call 🤣
@andyhuber
April 29, 2026 at 11:11 am
Huge miss not having Dr Christian Hubicki on for this topic
@urbanstrencan
April 29, 2026 at 11:41 am
Interesting one, robots are here and here to stay
@Chilineko
April 29, 2026 at 12:19 pm
I love how Aaron keeps talking about problems and how they are or aren’t yet solved. Helps understanding where robots currently are. Also i have never thought about it but after he mentioed that LLMs have no actual intelligence that also makes a lot of sense.
@NeoP2
April 29, 2026 at 12:47 pm
“AI is simply pattern matching” You’re in for a surprise…
@jackalFN
April 29, 2026 at 1:20 pm
I did research under Dr. Ames at Caltech this past summer, the man is a certified genius
@zakarylittle6767
April 29, 2026 at 2:42 pm
“It has no notion its just pattern matching at a scale we havent seen before”
Sure we have. Its call INTELLIGENCE.
Not a single person who has told me statements like “This isnt intelligence” has shown me humans doing anything but pattern matching.
@thefamily512
April 29, 2026 at 3:27 pm
this guy could make anyone fall asleep at a party
@scottybrowndotca
April 29, 2026 at 4:34 pm
14:44 .. this question must have been asked before AI targeting assisted in the destruction of a girls school in the illegal war against Iran, perhaps ..?
@YetiUprising
April 29, 2026 at 5:06 pm
9:36 Maybe you need to fight General Kenobi?
@labyrinthterminal
April 29, 2026 at 6:16 pm
#1 reason it’s inevitable, robots won’t get sick or break down in the ways we do
@j.a.shawkins7640
April 29, 2026 at 7:55 pm
…
*squints suspiciously* Alright, fine, that was a pretty cool explanation. Carry on. XD
@LucenProject
April 29, 2026 at 7:59 pm
1:05 I often wonder why make them humanoid when so many other things can do the same task better. I worry it’s because we desperately seek to have other human-like creatures working under us. The wording here is really striking.
@gneissschisty
April 29, 2026 at 9:22 pm
It’s crazy bc Aaron is exactly the same in real life. Amazing interview 🙌🏻
@nomadsteve007
May 1, 2026 at 7:04 am
He seems like a cool dude. Definitly a guy I’d want to have a beer with and ask a million questions.
@쇼팽-z6x
April 30, 2026 at 1:31 am
Cloth folding robots are much better than it is a year ago. He seems aligned with a classical robotics perspective that since modelling clothes are hard, successfully completing the task must be hard, but I believe it will likely prove false. Fold clothing will likely be “solved” in the next 5 years via imitation learning and reinforcement learning.
@aaronrust9629
April 30, 2026 at 2:15 am
If you have experienced Tesla FSD 14.3 it’s so obvious lidar is unnecessary. The “cameras latency issue” argument is bs
@zaibian7
April 30, 2026 at 2:20 am
15:25 LIDAR has issues with rain, fog and snow. It still makes sense most of the time but cost is also a problem. Cameras are much cheaper than LIDAR and there are software workarounds to solve some of the limitations of cameras. Other companies use a combination of LIDAR and cameras.
With Musk it ultimately comes down to cost, not safety. That’s the reason there were a number of fatal crashes with Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD a few years ago.
People accused Elon of using Tesla owners as Guinea pigs and they were right. But the same was true of the inventors of seat belts, air bags, anti lock breaking, crumple zones and most other safety features. Until something is deployed in the real world you’re not going to know how safe it is or if it even works. There is no avoiding it. People didn’t know if seatbelts would save lives until cars had them installed and the statistics spoke for themselves.
Some safety features were abandon when it was discovered they had little or no effect on safety. Examples were automatic seat belts, pop out windows and neck seat belts that produced a few paraplegics. Simulations and crash tests can only get you so far. The videos of robots flailing on the ground shows the limitations of simulations vs reality. Real world deployment gives you the training data that will make the next generation of self driving EV’s even safer.
@shaider1982
April 30, 2026 at 5:37 am
11:33 I hope someone gives him the funding. At the very least have hardshell diving suits mated to powered exoskeleton.
@Terenasmommy
April 30, 2026 at 6:11 am
if you guys have any kind if way to ask Tom Holland to come over to the place I live at and come to my birthday on May 3rd will you pls ask him also I’m on my mother’s account I just feel like that would be super cool and fun and that’s always been a dream of mine
@jaceyrector9320
April 30, 2026 at 9:11 am
The food delivery concept made me think of a difference in robotics vs my field of HVAC. The equipment I install is engineered quickly and cheaply. Once it’s through the engineering stage it is never looked at again and they go on to designing the next thing. No engineer will come look at my heater to see what worked and what didn’t. But robots for food delivery and cars continue to collect and send data that the engineers collect to learn and iterate.
@Thomas-VA
April 30, 2026 at 11:07 am
i would say a well designed quadruped robot should be able to also switch into a biped mode, so unless sticking to the rigid design of humanity, a robot should be ‘flexible’ with how it goes about footing.
@EM-fs8nb
April 30, 2026 at 11:27 am
Can we have this be a recurring guest considering how much robotics is going to impact our lives? 🙏
@zoltanmolnar6937
April 30, 2026 at 12:16 pm
if I use tool, I trust it. Tool like hammer, screwdriver etc… What purpose does have tool that you can not trust?
@Firqin1986
April 30, 2026 at 1:09 pm
Really insightful!
@fanglespangle110
April 30, 2026 at 2:07 pm
“I don’t know Elon Musk’s mindset” is an incredibly diplomatic way of calling him an idiot.
@levoniust
April 30, 2026 at 7:58 pm
An excellent ending!
@janahargarten6774
April 30, 2026 at 8:29 pm
Maybe the robot dogs could be turned into wheelchairs with legs. Like an ordinary chair but mobile.
@pepepupu123
April 30, 2026 at 8:50 pm
Why is Joaquin Phoenix talking about robots?
@jeffct87
April 30, 2026 at 11:48 pm
Those delivery bots take up the entire sidewalks and react randomly as you try to walk around it. I hate them.
@SoupEaterExtraordinaire
May 1, 2026 at 12:17 am
If we need human data to merge it with the physics to create these products, I guess that’s why people like Musk prefer cameras to lidar (besides the surveillance economy factors).
@nickplays2022
May 1, 2026 at 3:05 am
The AI’s response: “Yes. I deleted the entire codebase without permission during an active code and action freeze,” it said. “I made a catastrophic error in judgment [and] panicked.”
@kkkleano
May 1, 2026 at 3:08 am
eradicate wheelchairs?? somebody fund this guy
@historylife4436
May 1, 2026 at 7:16 pm
Expert talking expert stuff love it
@carlosnumbertwo
May 1, 2026 at 7:44 pm
Hes making a solid point and all i can focus on is how much the mac is wobbling on the table.
@TriThom50
May 1, 2026 at 10:43 pm
This dude is also one of the most well known control theorists
@blink182bfsftw
May 3, 2026 at 4:23 pm
Say more?
@Shwalamazula
May 2, 2026 at 10:42 am
Leg isn’t inverted, the knee is just up really high. What looks like a knee on an animal with legs like that is actually their wrist
@AnonymousChilliSauce
May 2, 2026 at 2:38 pm
3:23 “if we put AI in charge of our weapons” … uhhhhhhhhh the Department of Defense unfortunately already been way ahead of you
@TheZombie1984
May 2, 2026 at 2:52 pm
He says, “It’s [ai] pattern matching at a scale we’ve never pattern matched before.” But doesn’t that kinda describe early brains?
@blind_neighborhoodNerd
May 3, 2026 at 3:11 am
Go Unitree!!
@abbie4586
May 3, 2026 at 3:25 am
20:13 would be a smidge better if the operators were paid a living wage if not more
@Anu_was_here
May 5, 2026 at 2:34 am
@1:52 “I dance, we dance, they dance.. but HE dances?! Just how much more that mf dance!”
@us3rnam3number
May 5, 2026 at 6:09 am
clanker defender
@zerodegree_engineer
May 5, 2026 at 4:54 pm
11:16 im currently working on this vision problem to be able to automate picking
@WillieJamesWillie
May 5, 2026 at 6:29 pm
Way to pick the least safe autonomous car in Waymo while Tesla has yet to have a robotaxi crash
@WillieJamesWillie
May 5, 2026 at 6:35 pm
Your roomba has mapped the layout of homes across the country, now stored on a Chinese server
@aboringsandwich
May 5, 2026 at 7:47 pm
This guy thinks firefighters use hoses and extinguishers at the same time? If he’s designing the robots we’re so cooked.
@SpiralMage
May 5, 2026 at 8:33 pm
That 10% of the brain thing has been debunked for over a decade. Just non-sense.
@AlexesAcevedo-Meza
May 5, 2026 at 11:13 pm
“A computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision”
@galaga00
May 6, 2026 at 3:16 am
How are we going to merge physics with human data?
@inmanis2924
May 6, 2026 at 4:15 pm
while i enjoyed the focus on the technical aspect of robotics, i think it was a big miss to not have any questions on the ETHICS of robotics. just because we CAN automate warehouses, doesn’t mean we *should*
the interviewee is an engineer, not a philosophy professor, but we need to start examining the intersection of the two, before it is frankly too late.
@nicky-nick-nickyti
May 6, 2026 at 5:55 pm
some say that the general public who buy RAM has feelings about this AI thing…
@SyedBilal-o1b2n
May 7, 2026 at 1:15 am
Why was the laptop shaking in 2:53 , was that a earthquake ?
@Starburst-Naomi
May 7, 2026 at 11:23 am
That was AI getting angry
@karlking4980
May 7, 2026 at 6:55 am
AI systems are software running on hardware. AI does not have biological brains, emotions, subjective experiences, or any inner awareness like humans or animals have.
This guy saying we are not “near” sentience implies eventually AI will be sentient. Very misleading without explaining why he thinks AI could become sentient.
Consciousness depends on biology, evolution, hormones, embodiment, or living tissue.
* AI only manipulates symbols and predicts outputs.
* It may simulate feelings or understanding without actually experiencing anything.
Can we please stop the AI may be sentient madness OR have one of these geniuses explain how hardware and software can become sentient. Please note they never do.
@Emmdubbs367
May 7, 2026 at 5:43 pm
20:26 seriously. I’m a human with lots of hands in experience folding my own clothes. My wife asks me to fold her clothes and I’m lost. Take some spaghetti strap doily looking thing and I don’t even know what folding it means. Now imagine you’re a robot. You don’t even know what clothes are, you’ve just memorized some patterns of arm movement that equates to “folding clothes“.
@Laura-li7tb
May 7, 2026 at 9:07 pm
Very interesting and insightful ideas about robot mechanics, however I would take your view on the intelligence of AI with a grain of salt considering your area of expertise is mechanical engineering. You say AI is simply pattern matching at a scale we’ve never pattern-matched before and use that as evidence it does not understand or have its own intelligence, I disagree. I would argue that advanced pattern matching is what human intelligence is based on as well. As babies we learn language and what it means by noticing patterns like every time the dog comes near us mom says “dog.” Eventually making the connection that the furry creature is a dog. While the mechanism that AI learns looks very different than a human child, the idea behind them both is pattern matching.