How Much Compute Do Hundreds of Millions of Robots Need?
inductionheads · x · 2026-07-17
The author highlights a practical constraint: if hundreds of millions of robots exist in the future, each running a 1T parameter model in real-time multimodal scenarios, the required compute would be staggering.
This serves as a reminder that when discussing robotics/AGI deployment, we must look beyond model capabilities and consider hard constraints like on-device inference, real-time performance, and overall compute costs.
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