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This episode discusses the necessity of having two clocks in humanoid robots to balance slow cognitive understanding and fast physical movement.

Send us Fan Mail A useful general-purpose robot has to do two things that fight each other. It has to think slowly enough to understand "put away the groceries," and it has to move fast enough to keep a grip on the milk carton without crushing it. The part that understands is large and slow. The part that moves has to be small and fast. You cannot run both on the same clock. This episode looks at the design now shipping on real robots: Vision-Language-Action models that simply run two clocks ...

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Host: David Such

Topics covered

• humanoid robots
• robot design
• Vision-Language-Action models
• robot functionality
• cognitive processing
• robot movement

Keywords

• humanoid robots
• two clocks
• robot design
• cognitive processing
• robot movement
• Vision-Language-Action
• general-purpose robot

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