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Google DeepMind: We don’t need physical AGI before robots become useful

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Carolina Parada, VP of Robotics at Google DeepMind, lays out how DeepMind is thinking about robotics right now. Her main point is that they are not betting on one robot type winning. The bigger bet is building an AI layer that can work across many different robots. She also says robotics does not n…

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  1. 2026-09-17 14:35 · r/agi
    Google DeepMind: We don’t need physical AGI before robots become useful

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