Robotics & Physical Intelligence 101
This course is for Founders, investors, operators, corporate development teams and managers who keep hearing about robots, humanoids and "physical AI", and need to understand them well enough to make a decision: to buy, to build, to invest or to wait. No engineering background is needed. Every technical term is explained in plain English the first time it appears.
What you will learn
- You understand how the AI behind chatbots is now being turned into robot brains, and where it still falls short.
- You can read a spec sheet and ask about the three numbers that decide whether the robot will work for you.
- You can build a simple, honest business case that includes the costs vendors leave out.
- Explain robot foundation models (vision-language-action models), simulation and world models, and why data is the new bottleneck.
- Describe how robots are programmed and how they now learn, from classic control to imitation learning and reinforcement learning.