Study Shows LLMs Are Surprisingly Bad at Controlling Robot Arms
tom_doerr · x · 2026-08-19
A post shares a finding that Large Language Models (LLMs) perform surprisingly poorly when tasked with controlling robot arms. This observation challenges expectations regarding LLM generalization or direct utility in physical world control, suggesting unresolved difficulties in embodied intelligence applications.
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