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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. 

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The system uses three agents to piece together the objects, walls, and overall look of a 3D scene. Its realistic recreations of indoor spaces help robots practice skills and try out different ways of doing tasks before they’re powered on (Credit: Tim Malieckal/MIT CSAIL using assets from the researchers).
CSAIL article

An increasingly common sight: robots walking down the street, surrounded by astounded onlookers. But these machines aren’t yet the do-it-all assistants you’d want working in a kitchen or factory, and a major bottleneck is data. Much like humans, robots learn best by experience. The challenge is that it’s labor-intensive and time-consuming to physically teach these machines so many actions across different settings. 

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Ray and Maria Stata Center
External articles

David Clark, Senior Research Scientist at MIT CSAIL, helped design the system that connects nearly every computer on earth. As Chief Protocol Architect of the Internet from 1981 to 1989, he was there for the beginnings of the Internet. Calling the wave of AI technology an “echo” of what happened in the 80’s, Dr. Clark is cautioning, “ maybe we need to slow things down and think a bit.”