Walden Robotics: full production shifts in factories are shaping its robot development
adnothing · x · 2026-11-04
Walden Robotics co-founder and CEO Russ Tedrake spoke at MIT's Physical AI Summit and Matter of Minds on October 30. The company says that beyond years of robot-learning research, its key learnings now come from running robots through full factory production shifts — revealing hardware durability limits, when robots need human assistance, and how they fit into existing manufacturing processes, with worker feedback shaping development.
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