Robotics Evaluation is Broken: Manual Setups Make Iteration 100x Slower Than LLMs
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-08-07
Varun Nair points out severe issues in current robotics evaluation: repeated manual calibrations and a lack of standardized frameworks or scoring methodologies waste massive amounts of time. Chris Paxton adds that robotics is fundamentally too many different problems, making it difficult to form a unified evaluation and iteration loop like LLMs, leading to longer R&D cycles and slower progress.
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