Brian Gerkey

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The Neuron: AI Explained · Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About · 1 Apr 2026 podcast

Those are like, that stuff is all, it's all AI powered.

We just don't think about it like that anymore because it just works, which is fine.

Right.

So yeah.

That's just to set context.

So I think that the term AI today, to me, it's describing a particular sliver of what I think is a broader field.

But that sliver has turned out to be really important.

So modern, modern approaches to training deep neural networks in particular, combined with clever techniques, some of which we developed in Intrinsic and other other people have their own approaches for generating large volumes of data, usually synthetically.

This means like bringing up simulated environments to generate

let's say camera images combined with ground truth to train those networks has just that that's been the unlock is is being able to efficiently train produce large amounts of data and then efficiently train these networks in a way that then when you once you've got the network that the training step is very compute intensive we spend you know a lot of time training these systems this is it's one of the reasons nvidia is a very very valuable company today is everybody is spending a lot of time training

neural networks, and they are largely using NVIDIA GPUs to do that.

But once I've got it, importantly, the inference side of it, where now I've trained it and now I want to ask it questions, is it's not free, but it's much more efficient.

The combination of those algorithmic developments has really unlocked the ability to answer these questions in a much more capable way.

So there has been, you know, people have been using robotics in manufacturing for decades.

And in fact, there's been some really great technology has been developed in robotics for manufacturing.

There are companies that have been making robots for use in that field for a long time.

And they're, you know, argued earlier, the hardware is actually really capable.

The software that is built into the robot controllers is

is really capable for what it does as well.

So if you buy a robot, it comes with a robot controller.

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