Robotics researcher to AI hypesters: debug a controller before making grand claims
GeorgiaChal · x · 2026-09-08
A robotics researcher pushes back on grand AI-driven claims about robotics ahead of ECCV2026: people rebranding long-standing robotics ideas around foundation models should first deal with contact, latency, calibration and failures by debugging controllers themselves.
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