SkildAI on Robotics Economics: Move Cost to Pre-training
deepakpathak · x · 2026-08-26
Deepak Pathak commented that the great ideas found with LLMs are now being rediscovered in robotics. The key is addressing robotics-economics: shifting costs into reusable pre-training to drive down the marginal cost of adaptation.
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