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Sergey Levine
AI & Robotics Professor
Sergey Levine , one of the world’s top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence , thinks we’re on the cusp of a “self-improvement flywheel” for general-purpose robots.
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2025
1 appearance
Dwarkesh Podcast / September 12, 2025 / Episode #92
Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine
Plus, how VLA models work, self-improvement from deployment, and China’s hardware advantage
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If hardware’s the bottleneck, does China win by default?
If hardware’s the bottleneck, does China win by default?
2020
1 appearance
Lex Fridman Podcast / July 14, 2020 / Episode #108
Sergey Levine: Robotics and Machine Learning
Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including the development of algorithms for end-to-end training of neural network policies that combine perception and control, scalable algorithms for inverse reinforcement learning, and deep RL algorithms.
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Sergey Levine is a professor at Berkeley and a world-class researcher in deep learning, reinforcement learning, robotics, and computer vision, including the development of algorithms for end-to-end training of neural network policies that combine perception and control, scalable algorithms for inverse reinforcement learning, and deep RL algorithms.
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Sergey Levine
AI & Robotics Professor
Sergey Levine , one of the world’s top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence , thinks we’re on the cusp of a “self-improvement flywheel” for general-purpose robots.
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July 14, 2020 to September 12, 2025
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