George Mason AI-in-Gov’s Inside the Black Box – From Lab to Field: Building Robots for the Real World
Welcome to AI in Gov: Inside the Black Box. This podcast series explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence in government, with a focus on innovation, collaboration, and impact.
In this episode of AI-in-Gov: Inside the Black Box, hosts Richard Jacik and Amarda Shehu speak with Xuesu Xiao about advancing robotics beyond controlled lab environments and into complex, real-world settings. Xuesu shares his work in disaster and field robotics, emphasizing human-machine teaming, off-road autonomy, and deploying robots in unpredictable environments to support missions like search and rescue. The conversation explores the balance between autonomy and human control, the limitations of current AI approaches such as large language models in robotics, and the importance of field-driven experimentation to build robust, mission-ready systems.
This episode is sponsored by Solution Street.