Leslie Pack Kaelbling to Debate Pure Behavior Learning vs Runtime Rationality in Robotics at Vector Institute
VectorInst · x · 2026-11-13
The Vector Institute announced that MIT CSAIL professor Leslie Pack Kaelbling will deliver a talk titled "The Role of Rationality in Modern Robotics" on November 19, co-presented with the University of Toronto's CS department, UofT Robotics, and the Schwartz Reisman Institute.
The talk tackles a core robotics debate: whether pure behaviour learning alone can build general-purpose robots, or whether runtime rationality — explicit reasoning and planning at inference time — must make a return. Registration is open.
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