[htrp]

the torrent of funding helps here

[UltraSane]

The vision language action models and the two level slow planning and fast control LLMs seem to be a big breakthrough.

[Tireings]

ML helps here and the progress Nvidia made with their robotics platform.

[rurban]

But mostly OpenCV, in its excellent C++ and python variants. Not everything is modern ML heuristics, some classic AI is also needed still.