Radical Talks, Masterclass Edition: Jim Fan on The Future of Robotics and Embodied AI

<p>Jim Fan, Director and Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA, joins Radical Partner Molly Welch to explore what&#39;s holding back embodied AI and robotics. While large language models have advanced rapidly, Jim explains why progress in the physical world depends less on ever-larger models and more on solving fundamental problems: exploration-driven learning, scalable data pipelines, and synthetic simulation. Drawing on his journey from OpenAI to leading NVIDIA&#39;s Project GR00T, they discuss the robotics data bottleneck, why foundation models matter, and what must happen before robotics reaches its &quot;GPT-4 moment.&quot;</p>