Jitendra Malik: Robots Discarding 3D Structure Are Wasting Valuable Signals

Berkeley CV legend Jitendra Malik argues that robots abandoning 3D structure waste valuable signals, reviewing the history of 3D/4D reconstruction and presenting his team's Astra paradigm for distilling 3D/4D priors into VLMs to empower robotics.

2026-09-21 ~ 2026-09-21 · 3 related posts

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