Open-source robotics should not be slowed to protect two labs’ evals
RileyRalmuto · x · 2026-07-21
The post argues that it would be bad policy to slow down the robotics industrial revolution just to protect the evaluations of two AI labs. It frames robotics as something built and trained on top of open-source models, and warns against policy choices that could handicap the whole sector for the sake of narrow benchmark interests.
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