Robot learning veteran: most factory robots are more capable than their tasks
stepjamUK · x · 2026-09-08
The author has spent over a decade in robot learning — PhD at Imperial, postdoc at Berkeley, and building the Dyson Robot Learning Lab. The pattern he sees hasn't changed: most robots on factory floors today are more capable than the tasks they're used for.
Every major step, from early imitation learning to today's VLAs and diffusion policies, was deployable years before most teams picked it up — deployment lags technical maturity.
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