YC Paper Club: Top Researchers Share Frontiers in Embodied AI and Robotics
ycombinator · x · 2026-08-08
Y Combinator hosted a robotics-themed Paper Club featuring top researchers from Stanford, Physical Intelligence, and Waymo, presenting the latest findings in AI and robotics.
Topics include Multi-Scale Embodied Memory for Vision Language Action Models (MEM), self-supervised bootstrapping of action-predictive embodied reasoning, and SimToolReal for sim-to-real tool learning.
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