Chris Paxton

Robots can walk. They can dance. They can even do backflips. But can they reliably fold your laundry, make coffee, or recover from mistakes in your kitchen? In this episode, I sit down with robotics researcher Chris Paxton to talk about what’s actually hard about building intelligent robots. We explore: Why robotics today is fundamentally different than it was 10 years ago The rise of world models and robot imagination Why contact and manipulation tasks are harder than navigat...