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by yakz 825 days ago
It's easy to make a cool looking demo with robots, even one that runs right in front of you in person. Making a video is basically nothing, though, too much cherry-picking. Anyone that works with robots will just assume you have burned a lot of time repeating takes to cover up all of the failures. For the rubber to meet the road you chop that scope way, way, waaaaaaaaaaay down to make a robot do something useful.

Maybe this new ML wave will bring about a more generally useful robot, it certainly feels like it will at least open up a ton of new avenues for R&D.