Robotics at OpenAI with Jonas Schneider - TWiML Talk #76
Analysis
This article summarizes a podcast episode from the "Practical AI" series, focusing on OpenAI's robotics work. The episode features Jonas Schneider, the Robotics Technical Team Lead at OpenAI. The discussion covers OpenAI's robotics projects, including OpenAI Gym, and the infrastructure they use for research, such as their Robots-as-a-Service environment and the use of Kubernetes for compute management. The article highlights the interview's focus on practical aspects of OpenAI's robotics endeavors and the technologies they employ. It also provides links to the show notes and the series' information.
Key Takeaways
- •The podcast episode focuses on OpenAI's robotics work.
- •Jonas Schneider, Robotics Technical Team Lead at OpenAI, is interviewed.
- •The discussion covers OpenAI Gym, Robots-as-a-Service, and Kubernetes usage.
“We discuss OpenAI Gym, which was the first project he worked on at OpenAI, as well as how they approach setting up the infrastructure for their experimental work, including how they’ve set up a Robots-as-a-Service environment for their researchers and how they use the open source Kubernetes project to manage their compute environment.”