Aaron Edsinger left his job as director of robotics at Google to start a company called Hello Robot. Aaron’s problem is this: How do you build an affordable robot that people can use to solve real problems at home? The result is a robot that looks nothing like a person. In fact, it’s closer to a Roomba with an arm.

In this episode, Aaron explains: 

•  Why home robots have barely progressed since the Roomba
• Why simpler robots can be more useful than complex humanoids 
•  Why the physical world is so much harder for AI than language
• How robot safety is fundamentally a physics problem

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