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Building the "App Store" for Robots: Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf on Physical AI

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Building the "App Store" for Robots: Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf on Physical AI

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2025/09/09
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2025/09/09
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Thomas Wolf, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, explains how his company is applying the same community-driven approach that made transformers accessible to everyone to the emerging field of robotics. Thomas discusses LeRobot, Hugging Fa...

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In this conversation, Thomas Wolf of Hugging Face discusses the next frontier of open-source AI: robotics. Moving beyond language models, he reveals how Hugging Face is leveraging community collaboration to make physical AI accessible to developers worldwide.
03:04
LeRobot aims to make robotics as accessible as software development.
10:49
LeRobot is designed as an open platform where startups can build on affordable robotic hardware for new business ideas.
16:07
Open-source AI can generate realistic, interactive films and training data for robots
29:27
China is becoming the champion of open-source in AI model development due to hiring advantages and competitive openness.
39:59
The future of AI lies in enabling everyone to build, not just consume.

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Can Software Developers Become Roboticists Overnight?
00:00
What If Robots Had an App Store?
10:49
How Can AI Generate Its Own Training World?
16:07
Why Is Open Source Winning the AI Race?
26:41
Can Open Science Teach AI to Ask Better Questions?
34:47

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Thomas Wolf: Many, many startups just already being built on top of the robot, just, you know, they want to build something. They have this idea of a manual test they can automate, or they have an idea of something they could do in the physical world. And ...