In the most recent episode of Building 32, Popescu explains how her research sits at the intersection of computational design, digital fabrication, and structural engineering.
Tesla, CSAIL Alliances members, develops and deploys autonomy at scale in vehicles, robots and more.
Tesla believes that an approach based on advanced AI for vision and planning, supported by efficient use of inference hardware, is the only way to achieve a general solution for full self-driving, bi-pedal robotics and beyond.
Add to calendarAmerica/New_YorkTraining Robust Optimus Policies: Tesla AI Tech Talk10/14/2026
Tesla, CSAIL Alliances members, develops and deploys autonomy at scale in vehicles, robots and more.
Tesla believes that an approach based on advanced AI for vision and planning, supported by efficient use of inference hardware, is the only way to achieve a general solution for full self-driving, bi-pedal robotics and beyond.
Tesla Full Self Driving (FSD) drives millions of miles autonomously every day across hundreds of cities. This feat is only possible through training extremely robust policies. When the goal is to similarly have millions of robots doing thousands of useful tasks in a wide variety of environments, we need to ensure that Optimus has similarly robust policies. In this talk, we share some of our strategies in training such robust policies and showcase some of our latest world models that make this possible.
This event is offered by TNT, and open to the CSAIL Alliances community
TNT, the startup community and accelerator for MIT and Harvard, is hosting Building in Deep Tech, a panel with Silicon Valley Bank, with a mixer after. If you're building something hard, hardware, bio, energy, or AI at the research edge, this room is for you.
Khosla Ventures focuses on high-risk, high-impact investments across artificial intelligence (AI), climate change, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech, digital health, and frontier technologies. In this tech talk, Khosla Ventures will be leading conversations with one of their ventures, Foundry Robotics. Join the team over lunch to learn more about Foundry Robotics and their technology, opportunities to work at Foundry Robotics, Khosla Ventures, and more of Khosla Ventures' portfolio companies.
In his recent conversation on Building 32, MIT CSAIL Senior Research Scientist David Clark tells a story from 1995 when he got into a conversation with an economist and friend of his. “He said, ‘David, you have to understand the internet is about routing money, and routing packets is a side effect. And you screwed up the money routing protocols.’ And I said, ‘I didn't design any money routing protocols.’ And he said, ‘that's what I said.’”
At the recent AI and Society Forum at MIT, experts from across the Institute discussed the potential benefits and dangers of technological innovation on labor, the nature of work, civil discourse, election administration, and other topics.
Andrew W. Lo, MIT Professor in the Sloan School of Management, CSAIL PI, and Faculty Co-Director of FinTechAI@CSAIL, says, "The question is: `Do large language models have our back?’ The answer is no, not yet.”
Discover what matters at EmTech Future, MIT Technology Review’s flagship event at the frontiers of technology. Join online or on the MIT campus September 29-October 1.
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