#97 Sertac Karaman: Robots That Fly and Robots That Drive

Published: May 20, 2020, 1:28 a.m.

Sertac Karaman is a professor at MIT, co-founder of the autonomous vehicle company Optimus Ride, and is one of top roboticists in the world, including robots that drive and robots that fly.
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\nEPISODE LINKS:
\nSertac's Website: http://sertac.scripts.mit.edu/web/
\nSertac's Twitter: https://twitter.com/sertackaraman
\nOptimus Ride: https://www.optimusride.com/
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\nHere's the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
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\nOUTLINE:
\n00:00 - Introduction
\n01:44 - Autonomous flying vs autonomous driving
\n06:37 - Flying cars
\n10:27 - Role of simulation in robotics
\n17:35 - Game theory and robotics
\n24:30 - Autonomous vehicle company strategies
\n29:46 - Optimus Ride
\n47:08 - Waymo, Tesla, Optimus Ride timelines
\n53:22 - Achieving the impossible
\n53:50 - Iterative learning
\n58:39 - Is Lidar is a crutch?
\n1:03:21 - Fast autonomous flight
\n1:18:06 - Most beautiful idea in robotics