Robotics Veteran: Factory Robots Are More Capable Than the Tasks They Get
stepjamUK · x · 2026-09-08
- The author has over a decade in robot learning: PhD at Imperial, postdoc at Berkeley, and built the Dyson Robot Learning Lab.
- Core observation: every major step — from early imitation learning to today's VLAs and diffusion policies — was deployable years before most teams picked it up. Capability was never the bottleneck.
- Most robots on factory floors today can already do far more than they're being used for; what's missing is the data and infrastructure layer to teach existing hardware new skills.
- The author's company Neuracore builds that layer; demos available via comments.
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