Assessing robotics requires looking at median performance
moultano · x · 2026-08-23
Argues that to accurately assess the state of robotics, one needs to see what a "median" robot video looks like, rather than relying on social media which only shows exceptional outliers, highlighting survivorship bias in available data.
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