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Can Safeworld convince people that gen AI robots won’t hurt them?

Publisher description: Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.

TechCrunch | Oct 5, 2026 | Tim Fernholz

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Ding Zhao, who directs the Safe AI lab at Carnegie Melon University, has been working on this problem for almost his entire career. If a human is carrying boxes, for example, will the robot detect the human or not? ” To answer that question, Safeworld will build a digital version of that corner in a model like Genesis or MuJoCo, insert a simulation of the robot it is evaluating, driven by its real software, and then run thousands of scenarios where human models encounter the robot.

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