{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Deployed: Where Physical AI Gets Real","title":"He Built Humanoids for DARPA: Sidd Srinivasa on Why They’re the Wrong Default Robot","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/2aab621b\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2978,"description":"Brad Porter sits down with Sidd Srinivasa, the roboticist he recruited to build Amazon’s Robotics AI org and now a professor at the University of Washington’s Allen School. They get into the gap between what robotics promised and what it actually delivered, why a robot that helps a paralyzed person eat is really a problem about dignity, why Sidd thinks the humanoid is the wrong default (“we humans are a local minimum in evolution”), why most robot demos are the easy 30 percent, and why moving the field forward takes uncommon sense: you have to be contrarian and correct.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Z7ng7Y1KpXm38BVOn89Hj1PRWDk_-BBa6aqqGZl43cI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMDhk/YTVlM2NhZjBlNGYw/YjVkMWVhM2E1MWJl/NTM0NS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}