Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test
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Overview
Jeanine Sinanan-Singh, director of GenAI research at Appen.
In Episode 265 of The Robot Report Podcast, our guest is Jeanine Sinanan-Singh, director of generative AI Research at Appen. She discusses the continuing importance of humans in the loop for training robots.
Sinanan-Singh works on agentic evals, RL environments, and dataset design for post-training frontier AI models. She also explains why impressive demonstrations don’t necessarily prove that robotic behavior can be generalized.
Sinanan-Singh previously founded a pharmacy automation startup built on a 3D-printing platform to manufacture personalized medications. A Harvard graduate with prior experience at Microsoft and Surge, she is a frequent voice on AI evaluation and reasoning.
Show timeline
- 8:10 – News of the week
- 29:06 – Jeanine Sinanan-Singh, director of GenAI Research at Appen
News of the week
- Boston Dynamics appoints former Amazon exec Rohit Prasad as new CEO
- PTC acquisition positions Schneider Electric to challenge Siemens
- Also mentioned: Berkshire Grey CEO discusses physical AI, European expansion
- Locus gets a grip on robotic manipulation with Nexera technology
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