Ex-Meta Embodied AI Head: Training Web Agents is the Same Job as Teaching Robots
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-07-21
The latest episode of 'The Information Bottleneck' features Dhruv Batra, co-founder of Yutori and former head of Embodied AI at Meta FAIR. Having spent years training robots to navigate 3D scans, Batra now builds web agents, arguing that it’s essentially the same job, with the browser simply being a cheaper place to fail. The discussion also covers reinforcement learning on live websites and the future economics of the web when agents do the browsing.
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