Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics
Physical Intelligence robots now perform complex household tasks in previously unseen environments
“we showed how robots can do useful tasks in environments in rooms they've never been in before”
Chelsea Finn, founder of Physical Intelligence, presented progress on general-purpose robots capable of complex manipulation tasks — washing pans, peeling carrots, making sandwiches — in novel environments. The talk frames the core challenge as bridging general-purpose models to real-world deployment, drawing parallels to how ML moved from recommendations to deep learning to production AI. Physical Intelligence represents a leading bet that foundation model approaches can generalize across robotic tasks and settings.