AUTONOMOUS 2026
Russ Tedrake
CEO
WALDEN ROBOTICS
Russ Tedrake has been on the front lines building Physical AI for years as a Professor at MIT and an SVP at the Toyota Research Institute. We’re at the dawn of the age of general-purpose robots, with the field now focused on moving out of the lab and into real production manufacturing environments. Russ will share his inside perspective on how this new phase of robotics is unfolding, what is real versus what is still hard, and how to mesh the tech with how manufacturing works today.
Their session
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Deploying General-Purpose Robots
Russ Tedrake has been on the front lines building Physical AI for years as a Professor at MIT and an SVP at the Toyota Research Institute. We're at the dawn of the age of general-purpose robots, with the field now focused on moving out of the lab and into real production manufacturing environments. Russ will share his inside perspective on how this new phase of robotics is unfolding, what is real versus what is still hard, and how to mesh the tech with how manufacturing works today.