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Episode Synopsis
A Columbia robotics researcher and a Google AI engineer join Café Zai to ask why our buildings, giant robots in disguise, are still asleep.About the Guest:Judah Goldfeder is a researcher at Columbia University’s robotics and dynamic systems lab and an AI researcher at Google, where he works on reinforcement learning for real buildings. He bridges two worlds—cutting-edge AI research and the messy, real physics of HVAC, buildings, and cities—which makes his viewpoint uniquely valuable.This episode explores why buildings behave like giant robots, why most of them are still “asleep,” and what it will take to wake them up.Connect with Judah on LinkedIn: 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/judah-goldfeder/Explore the UrbanAI Workshop at NeurIPS (where I will be presenting at his invitation): 🔗 https://urbanai2025.github.io/
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