# Peter Chen on building brains for robots in the real world Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/robot-brains-podcast/peter-chen-on-building-brains-for-robots-in-the-real-world Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/robot-brains-podcast/peter-chen-on-building-brains-for-robots-in-the-real-world.md Podcast: [The Robot Brains Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/robot-brains-podcast) Published: 2021-05-19T15:48:23+00:00 Episode link: https://www.therobotbrains.ai Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6053a29a0d11b0148adcfc96/e/60a506c2aa21120019259c8d/media.mp3 Processing state: failed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/robot-brains-podcast/episodes/peter-chen-on-building-brains-for-robots-in-the-real-world Duration seconds: 3921 ## Resource In episode seven of The Robot Brains Podcast, our guest is Covariant CEO and co-founder Peter Chen. Peter is one of Pieter Abbeel's closest collaborators for the past five years, with Peter having studied for his PhD in Pieter's lab in Berkley before then working together at OpenAI. Now they are co-founders of Covariant, which they started back in 2017 with Peter as the CEO. On this episode we explore the future of AI-powered robotics, looking at what happens when you teach industrial robots to "think" and "learn" from their environment. Host: Pieter Abbeel | Executive Producers: Ricardo Reyes & Henry Tobias Jones | Audio Production: Kieron Matthew Banerji | Title Music: Alejandro Del Pozo Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/robot-brains-podcast/episodes/peter-chen-on-building-brains-for-robots-in-the-real-world/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/robot-brains-podcast/peter-chen-on-building-brains-for-robots-in-the-real-world.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.