Scott Reed: What is the right Backbone for Embodied Agents? [ETHZ Robot Learning 2026]
In this guest lecture for the ETH Zurich course "Robot Learning: From Fundamentals to Foundation Models" (Spring 2026), hosted and led by Oier Mees, Scott Reed (Founding Member of Generalist Embodied Agent Research GEAR lab at Nvidia), who's been at the forefront of scaling robotics at Google DeepMind and Nvidia, talks about VLAs, World Models and what is the right backbone for embodied agents. Course Website: https://cvg.ethz.ch/lectures/Robot-Le...
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Yann LeCun: World Models: Enabling the next AI revolution
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Ted Xiao: Three Eras of Robot Learning [ETHZ Robot Learning 2026]
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Quan Vuong: π0.7, A Generalist Model with Emergent Capabilities [ETHZ Robot Learning 2026]
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YOLO26 vs RF-DETR: Which Model Should You Use in 2026?
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Yann LeCun's $1B Bet Against LLMs [Part 1]
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[S5E8] Scaling World Models for Generalist Robots | Shenyuan Gao & Seonghyeon Ye | NVIDIA
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Robotics' End Game: Nvidia's Jim Fan
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Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley & PI): RL for Robot Foundation Models
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Event Cameras: a New Way of Sensing - Davide Scaramuzza - ICCP 2024 Keynote
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They're laughing at the SpaceX bubble
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EI Seminar - Jason Ma - Recent Progress on Foundation Model Supervision for Robot Learning
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Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering w/ Stephanie Zhan
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Vladlen Koltun: On Spatial Cognition in Frontier Models
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[S5E9] 3D World Model for Robotics | Wenlong Huang | Stanford
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How to Train AI Robots with Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab | Robotics Office Hours
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Yann LeCun: Special Lecture on AI and World Models
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Danfei Xu: Human Data as a Foundation for Robot Learning [ETHZ Robot Learning 2026]
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Tesla's $25,000 Robot Is Replacing Workers | Optimus Is Here
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Google Just Revealed What Comes After AGI And It’s Shocking
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