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Body, Space, World, Data: Four Lectures on Embodied AI From ETH Zurich

Body, Space, World, Data: Four Lectures on Embodied AI From ETH Zurich

A language model can write the omelet recipe. Cracking the egg is where robots stall. That was Jitendra Malik's opening example at ETH Zurich on 29 May 2026, the first of four lectures under the title Frontiers of Embodied AI. I watched all four, about 3 hours 17 minutes in total, and they answer four different questions: what a robot's body needs (Malik), how well frontier models understand space (Vladlen Koltun), how a system learns a world model (Yann LeCun), and how to collect manipulation data that carries contact (Shuran Song). This post walks through them in order, then says which gap I think is the real one: a model that can't find the bathtub is missing structure, but a policy that can't feel the egg is missing a signal.

Datacast Episode 60: Algorithms and Data Structures For Massive Datasets with Dzejla Medjedovic

Datacast Episode 60: Algorithms and Data Structures For Massive Datasets with Dzejla Medjedovic

Dzejla Medjedovic earned her Ph.D. in the Applied Algorithms Lab of the Computer Science department at Stony Brook University in 2014. Dzejla has worked on a number of projects in algorithms for massive data, taught algorithms at various levels, and spent some time at Microsoft. Dzejla is passionate about teaching, promoting computer science education and technology transfer. She now works as an assistant professor of Computer Science at the International University of Sarajevo.

Datacast Episode 45: Teaching Artificial Intelligence with Amita Kapoor

Datacast Episode 45: Teaching Artificial Intelligence with Amita Kapoor

Amita Kapoor is an Associate Professor in a college at the University of Delhi. She has 20+ years of teaching experience. She is the co-author of various best-selling books in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. A DAAD fellow, she has won many accolades, with the most recent Intel AI Spotlight award 2019 in Europe. As an active researcher, she has more than 50 publications in international journals and conferences. She is extremely passionate about using AI for the betterment of society and humanity in general.