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Every robot, drone, self-driving car, delivery bot, and surgical assistant that claims “intelligence” is fundamentally a product of visual and/or electromagnetic perception systems. The success of Physical AI doesn’t start with neural networks or GPUs – it starts with cameras, sensors, and spectral scanners that give machines their first sense of reality.
Physical AI will not succeed until machines can truly see.
At LDV, we were honored to be Mapillary’s very first investor. Evan Nisselson shares Mapillary’s successes at navigating the roller coaster that is early-stage business building and a couple of his lessons learned from their +7 years of regular talks.
Raquel Urtasun is a recipient of the NVIDIA Pioneers of AI Award, three Google Faculty Research Awards, and several more. She lectures at the University of Toronto and the Vector Institute and is the head of Uber ATG, Toronto. At our LDV Vision Summit 2017, she spoke about how autonomous vehicles with human perception will make our cities smarter and better to live in.