Ken Goldberg Introduces "Variational Automation" to Define Embodied AI Use Cases

UC Berkeley robotics professor Ken Goldberg introduced the term "Variational Automation" to distinguish problems between traditional fixed automation and fully open-ended tasks, aiming to clarify the positioning of embodied AI applications and robotics startups.

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