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Y Combinator

Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics

2026-08-12 · 6 company · 9 thematic
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chelsea finn

Chelsea Finn founded Physical Intelligence two years ago to develop general-purpose robot foundation models. She presents research on scalable reinforcement learning, multi-timescale memory, and compositional generalization for robotics. She previously completed a PhD and discusses the tradeoffs between academic research and industry impact.

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“a year ago Whimo passed the uh quarter of a million weekly autonomous rides suggesting that it is really possible to develop a machine learning based system that can uh operate in a trustworthy and autonomous way uh directly in the physica…”
—chelsea finn
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