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Stuart Bowers

Stuart Bowers

Senior Director of AI & Robotics at Google DeepMind, formerly a top Siri executive and self-driving car leader at Apple.

Aug 2, 2026

19:18
Do you want to know, Zerla?
19:19
We are going to see over the next two years if that changes a lot.
19:22
But I think right now, when we talk to partners about their own experiences, we kind of hear two things consistently.
19:28
One is while the policies are showing incredibly cool generalizing capabilities, it's actually difficult to get them to be narrowly successful, but broad enough that they can handle all the little things that kind of vary and break over the course of an entire day.
19:41
And then you look back to autonomy, this is a really serious challenge there as well, where like you can kind of give a really impressive demo, but you're not ready to remove the safety driver for a long time.
19:50
And one of the distinctions between autonomy and robotics is sort of this teleoperation option.
19:55
So like, and you can just like, I'll just put a safety driver in and if the car gets stuck, they'll just take over and drive.

15 MINS LATER

35:16
What's the availability story? Where can people actually start using it?

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