One of the most exciting things about modern robot learning is that it’s so accessible. Ilia Larchenko talked to us about his journey into robotics: using low-cost robots like those from HuggingFace, building agents powered by Claude, and using these to put together robots that he can use to perform real, open-vocabulary tasks in the real world.

Unlike most of our podcasts, this one isn’t really about a paper — although Ilia has certainly been doing his research, developing new techniques and ways to get these robots to perform more and more complex tasks.

You can find Ilia’s work in X.

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Ep#29: Exploring Low Cost Robots using LLM Agents