Expert Questions to Evaluate Robotics Teams
RexDouglass · x · 2026-07-09
A tweet shares expert-level questions to assess the true capabilities of robotics teams: asking how many attempts a demo took and how much human intervention was required. This serves as a reminder not to be fooled by superficially impressive "10x demos," but to focus on stability and the level of automation in real-world deployments.
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