Eric Pan

Founder and CEO of Seeed Studio, an open-source hardware and edge AI company based in Shenzhen. Pan is a longtime maker-movement leader whose work focuses on helping developers turn ideas into hardware products, including IoT, robotics, embedded AI, and physical AI systems.

Low-Cost Robot Arms Let Non-Specialists Train Physical AI

On NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, Seeed Studio CEO Eric Pan and head of robotics Elaine Wu make the case that open-source, Jetson-powered robot arms can move embodied AI beyond specialist industrial settings. Their argument is that low-cost hardware, frameworks such as OpenClaw and LeRobot, and Isaac Sim digital twins let makers, students and small businesses teach and constrain robots around specific tasks, rather than waiting for a closed general-purpose humanoid.

NVIDIAMay 27, 202612 min read