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This Robot Learns By Watching (The Other One Will Give You Nightmares) | Ep.24

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In this week's Rational Optimist Podcast, we explore the rapidly advancing world of robotics. We compare Figure's groundbreaking Helix robot that learns by watching humans with Clone's nightmare-inducing twitching humanoid. Plus: why humanoid robots might be the wrong design approach, how Chinese robot dogs are outperforming American competitors at a fraction of the cost, quantum computing's overhyped promises, and why Grok just dethroned Claude as the most powerful AI model.

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In this week's Rational Optimist Podcast, we explore the rapidly advancing world of robotics. We compare Figure's groundbreaking Helix robot that learns by watching humans with Clone's nightmare-inducing twitching humanoid. Plus: why humanoid robots might be the wrong design approach, how Chinese robot dogs are outperforming American competitors at a fraction of the cost, quantum computing's overhyped promises, and why Grok just dethroned Claude as the most powerful AI model.

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