Ex-Meta Embodied AI Lead: Training Web Agents and Robots is the Exact Same Job
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-07-21
The latest episode of the Information Bottleneck podcast features Dhruv Batra, co-founder of Yutori and former head of Embodied AI at Meta FAIR, for a deep dive into the striking similarities between physical agents (robots) and digital agents (browser/computer use).
- Core Insight: Batra argues that training robots to navigate 3D spaces and building web agents is essentially the exact same job. The browser is simply a cheaper environment to fail in.
- Key Topics: The discussion covers the challenges of performing Reinforcement Learning (RL) directly on live websites, and explores the future economic model of the web—who pays for the infrastructure when AI agents, rather than humans, become the primary browsers?
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