Y Combinator Podcast: Coding Agents Are Generalizing Into Robot-Use Agents
Y Combinator · youtube · 2026-09-26
Y Combinator's Decoded podcast hosts the founders of Waddle Labs and RoboCurve to discuss the emerging trend of robot-use agents.
- MIT professor Philip Isola recently argued general-purpose models may control different robots, write policies, and learn physical tasks with little or no robot-specific training
- The realization grew out of how well coding agents generalize beyond software, with demos from these startups sparking the conversation
- Topics include code-as-policies, vision-language-action models, building harnesses and evals for real-world robot control, in-context learning vs model training, and turning robot actions into reusable skills
- Also covers the Bitter Lesson for robotics and how far we are from general-purpose robots
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