Testing Autonomous Robots in Real Homes
tonyzzhao · x · 2026-07-18
The core conclusion of this post is that for a problem to truly surface during testing, three conditions must be met simultaneously:
- Memo must be fully autonomous;
- Evaluated in a real, unseen home environment;
- The policy must be reliable enough, otherwise network jitter will become the primary source of failure.
Essentially, as a system transitions from "semi-autonomous" to "fully autonomous," many issues previously masked by manual intervention or policy noise will be exposed in the real world.
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