YC podcast explores robot-use agents as coding agents generalize beyond software
ycombinator · x · 2026-09-26
Y Combinator's Decoded podcast examines how agents are moving from software into the physical world. It builds on a recent essay by MIT professor Philip Isola, who argues that the surprising generalization of coding agents beyond software signals the coming era of robot-use agents: general-purpose models that can control different robots, write policies, and learn new physical tasks with little or no robot-specific training.
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