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FRONTIER SYSTEMS FOR THE PHYSICAL WORLD

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The paradigm is shifting to robot learning, autonomous science, and human-machine interfaces. These are not entirely separate efforts and thematically form a group of emerging frontier systems for the physical world. They share common technical primitives and are mutually reinforcing in ways that create compound dynamics across domains. These domains create a structural flywheel for extending AI into the physical world. This post looks at the technical primitives underlying these domains and examines why they present frontier opportunities.