Nikita Rudin
The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Intelligent Robots in 2026: Are We There Yet? with Nikita Rudin
- Published
- January 8, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 6m
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- Last updated
- Apr 21, 2026
Discusses Today, we're joined by Nikita Rudin, co-founder and CEO of Flexion Robotics to discuss the gap betwe…
Summary
Today, we're joined by Nikita Rudin, co-founder and CEO of Flexion Robotics to discuss the gap between current robotic capabilities and what’s required to deploy fully autonomous robots in the real world. Nikita explains how reinforcement learning and simulation have driven rapid progress in robot locomotion—and why locomotion is still far from “solved.” …
Show notes
Today, we're joined by Nikita Rudin, co-founder and CEO of Flexion Robotics to discuss the gap between current robotic capabilities and what’s required to deploy fully autonomous robots in the real world. Nikita explains how reinforcement learning and simulation have driven rapid progress in robot locomotion—and why locomotion is still far from “solved.” We dig into the sim2real gap, and how adding visual inputs introduces noise and significantly complicates sim-to-real transfer. We also explore