BitRobot and the Future of Embodied AI | Protocol Labs

BitRobot and the Future of Embodied AI

As AI systems continue to advance at an astonishing pace, the next great challenge lies in embodied intelligence—the ability of AI to perceive, reason, and act in the physical world. In a recent discussion featuring Michael Cho, co-founder of FrodoBots Labs; Juan Benet, founder of Protocol Labs; and Jonathan Victor, co-founder of Ansa Research, the panel explored the promise of their new project, BitRobot, a decentralized AI research network designed to push the boundaries of embodied AI.

Lacey Wisdom: Let's kick it off here. I'd love to introduce our amazing speakers today. We're joined by Michael Cho, who's the founder of FrodoBots ...

Michael Cho: Thanks for having me, Lacey. And I'm super excited about this chat. My view on embodied AI, or basically robotics, is that I think robotics is the "final boss" in the path to true AGI. ...

Lacey Wisdom: Juan, I'd love to get your perspective as well on this.

Juan Benet: I’m excited to be here with everybody. I fully agree with Michael. The challenges that we've seen over time ...

Lacey Wisdom: Totally. I think it's really an interesting point ...

Juan Benet: Look, I think looking ahead it's been pretty clear over the last two to three years ...

Lacey Wisdom: And so, I guess the question is, what's crypto's place in all of this? ...

Juan Benet: Crypto has been extremely successful at solving problems ...

Michael Cho: So I am very bullish on robotic gaming as a thing. ...

Lacey Wisdom: That's really interesting. I'd love to just double-click on something you just said there. Why do you think this method really appealed to so many top researchers? ...

Jonathan Victor: Sure. Where to dive in? ...

Michael Cho: Yeah, so we’ve been very privileged so far. ...

Lacey Wisdom: Great. And we'd love to hear you also weigh in on this too. Jonathan.

Jonathan Victor: Sure. Yeah. I think one of the biggest challenges is finding the right set of tasks ...

Michael Cho: Yeah, maybe I'll start first. So I think some of these things are not just BitRobot ...

Lacey Wisdom: That's a great segue into talking a little bit more about BitRobot and the problem that you're solving with BitRobot ...

Michael Cho: Yeah, so BitRobot is basically a network of subnets. And I think the thing I love the most about the way we set this up ...

Juan Benet: One of the things I would add here is that subnet architecture is an extremely good way of organizing a lot of disparate ways of contributing to a network. ...

Michael Cho: I have two more things to add. Another reason why I think this subnet idea is so powerful is because it's so flexible ...

Lacey Wisdom: That's great. Pivoting to you, Michael, I'd love to hear why you decided to build BitRobot on Solana.

Michael Cho: Honestly, before this project, I was a complete crypto skeptic ...

Lacey Wisdom: Do you have anything else to add to that, Jonathan or Juan? ...

Juan Benet: Yeah, exactly. What I was going to add is that I think I've been saying for a few years now ...

Lacey Wisdom: That's great. And now I see a question already. ...

Juan Benet: I think maybe I'll take a stab at broadly. ...

Lacey Wisdom: If there are no other questions from the audience ...

Michael Cho: Thanks for having us.