Bloomberg Hyperdrive Journalist Chester Dawson talks AI-powered robots with Dr. Russ Tedrake, Toyota Research Institute Vice President of Robotics Research. 

"We're definitely on the front lines of some big things happening," said Tedrake, an MIT professor who pioneered an algorithmic breakthrough using AI to teach machines to learn new skills by themselves, Dawson wrote. 

Tedrake says the next frontier involves neural networks for learning increasingly complex, multi-step tasks such as teaching robots to make pizza from scratch, Dawson wrote. TRI has built a humanoid helper called Punyo whose upper torso wears plush fabric-covered air bladders to hide all the hard edges. Another test robot looks like a shopping cart with arms that can navigate a grocery store aisle and pick up sundries.

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