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Brian Gerkey

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
502 total appearances

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The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

You guys want to help out with it?

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

I was like, yes, every time, yes.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

Just because I think there's such, like there's just such inherent virtue in space exploration that it's always worth doing.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

And one of the, yeah, one of the projects that

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

The folks at NASA Ames did is they built a, what's called the Astra B. It's a cube shaped robot that's like 18 inches on a side.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

And it's, they've got, I think, three of them inside the International Space Station.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

They got fans on each side and they free fly around inside the space station and they help astronauts fly.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

to do their work.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

They can do some kind of like surveillance tasks inside the space station, measuring things.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

They could look over the astronaut's shoulder and give ground mission control like an over-the-shoulder view.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

And that runs Ross.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

Knowing that there's some code that we wrote that's up there is just extraordinary.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

So for me, if you ask like, where do I want to take this?

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

I want to see robotics and automation broadly construed.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

It doesn't have to look like a robot arm.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

It doesn't have to look like a humanoid.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

Like what I just described, it's a cube with fans on the sides.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

Still, it's a cool robot.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

I want to see that technology go as broad as possible.

The Neuron: AI Explained
Google's Secret Robotics Play That Nobody's Talking About

So, you know, at Intrinsic today, we are building a business and it makes a lot of sense to focus on manufacturing as an industry.