Peter Welinder is a research scientist and roboticist at OpenAI. Before that, he was an engineer at Dropbox and ran the machine learning team, and before that, he co-founded Anchovi Labs a startup using Computer Vision to organize photos that was acquired by Dropbox in 2012. In this episode of our podcast, Peter shares his experiences and the challenges associated with building a robotic hand that can solve a rubix cube.

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Peter Welinder — Deep Reinforcement Learning and Robotics

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