Automated with Brian Heater Podcast Transcripts
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Jagdeep Singh: Teaching Robots From Internet Video at Rhoda AI
October 14, 2026
Jagdeep Singh (0:00)
Despite all the billions that have been raised, despite all the cool videos that have been published, I actually can't think of a single example of a generalist, autonomous robot that's doing useful work in the field today.
Coming from outside the space, as I ramped up on understanding what the issues were, why robotics hadn't seen the same kind of progress that other AI models had seen, it became clear that the central issue was the lack of data. The dominant paradigm in robotics is the VLA, the Vision Language Action Model…
Brian Heater (0:36)
You're working with a lot of these existing customers in a lot of cases with off-the-shelf hardware. So why ultimately is the company developing its own hardware?
Jagdeep Singh (0:46)
We played with a bunch of third-party hardware and found these issues with payload capacity, reliability, safety and dexterity. So those are the four key things that are missing from today's humanoids.
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