Robotics Legend Malik Pushes Back on LLM-Driven Robot Control

UC Berkeley robotics professor Jitendra Malik disputed claims that LLMs are making major strides in robotics, arguing current demos are mostly simple pick-and-place tasks with parallel grippers. He told MIT's Phillip Isola that dexterous, high-frequency force control remains far beyond what LLM planning can handle.

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