Dhruv Batra says web agents and robot navigation are the same problem in cheaper form
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-07-21
In a new episode of The Information Bottleneck, Dhruv Batra—co-founder of Yutori and former head of Embodied AI at Meta FAIR—argues that training robots to navigate 3D scans and building web agents are fundamentally similar problems.
Key themes:
- the browser is a cheaper place for agents to fail than the physical world;
- reinforcement learning on live websites is becoming a practical topic;
- as agents browse the web, the unresolved question becomes who should pay for that usage.
The episode is available on the show's website, YouTube, and Spotify.
Related event: Ex-Meta Embodied AI Lead: Training Web Agents is Like Training Robots(3 posts)→
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