Robotics bottleneck shifts from hardware to lack of physical action data
VraserX · x · 2026-08-31
The argument posits that the primary bottleneck in humanoid robotics is no longer hardware, but data. While the internet provided LLMs with trillions of examples of human thought, there is no equivalent internet-sized dataset of humans physically performing tasks.
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