Sertac Karaman

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. This conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence podcast.

Outline:
0:00 - Introduction
1:44 - Autonomous flying vs autonomous driving
6:37 - Flying cars
10:27 - Role of simulation in robotics
17:35 - Game theory and robotics
24:30 - Autonomous vehicle company strategies
29:46 - Optimus Ride
47:08 - Waymo, Tesla, Optimus Ride timelines
53:22 - Achieving the impossible
53:50 - Iterative learning
58:39 - Is Lidar is a crutch?
1:03:21 - Fast autonomous flight
1:18:06 - Most beautiful idea in robotics

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