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Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine

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Plus, how VLA models work, self-improvement from deployment, and China’s hardware advantage

Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / Transcript 47 6 10 Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine Plus, how VLA models work, self-improvement from deployment, and China’s hardware advantage Dwarkesh Patel Sep 12, 2025 47 6 10 Share Transcript Sergey Levine , one of the world’s top robotics researchers and co-founder of Physical Intelligence , thinks we’re on the cusp of a “self-improvement flywheel” for general-purpose robots. His median estimate for when robots will be able to run households entirely autonomously? 2030. If

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