Craig S. Smith
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2,710 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Craig S. Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mike said that Foundation is building its own AI model to control the robots.
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But see my earlier episode with Sergei Levine, a renowned AI researcher with his own startup Physical Intelligence, where he talks about how difficult that is to do.
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Mike Mike said Foundation is building its own actuators.
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The tiny motors that control the robots joints and are the most critical part in any humanoid.
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That's ambitious.
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None of this means Foundation won't get there.
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I've been confidently skeptical about companies before and turned out to be wrong.
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But as I told Mike, Foundation's PR is running far faster than its robots.
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Here's the conversation.
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Why don't we start uh with having you introduce yourself and talk about your earlier startup and then um then we'll get into uh foundation and and what you guys are doing.
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Yeah, and so d w we were talking uh last time we spoke about uh this humanoid craze that has kind of taken
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uh over in robotics.
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Uh and uh I was saying that I I it seems that there are many form factors that are are more practical than uh than the human form.
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And uh uh I was asking why and maybe you can answer for listeners
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why everyone is focused on humanoids now and i know the the bad answer is the world is built for humans uh and the easiest way for robots to navigate is in the human form but there are all kinds of problems with the human form factors you know you there's balance and speed and and uh
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uh and battery life and all these different things uh that uh that frankly it'd be easier with either uh wheeled robot or or even a robot dog.
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We talked about the robot dog.
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So uh yeah, give me your view on the human form factor.
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Yeah, and is it the form, the human form, or is it the the human judgment?
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I mean is it the the the physicality or the mental capability that that
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