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

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. Support
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https://www.optimusride.com/ This conversation is part of the
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the outline of the episode. On some podcast players you should be
able to click the timestamp to jump to that time. OUTLINE: 00:00 -
Introduction 01:44 - Autonomous flying vs autonomous driving 06:37
- Flying cars 10:27 - Role of simulation in robotics 17:35 - Game
theory and robotics 24:30 - Autonomous vehicle company strategies
29:46 - Optimus Ride 47:08 - Waymo, Tesla, Optimus Ride timelines
53:22 - Achieving the impossible 53:50 - Iterative learning 58:39 -
Is Lidar is a crutch? 1:03:21 - Fast autonomous flight 1:18:06 -
Most beautiful idea in robotics