Phillip Isola: Astra works because it leverages human-engineered methods, not despite them
phillip_isola · x · 2026-09-12
MIT professor Phillip Isola pushes back on the idea that the bitter lesson is taking hold in robotics following the Astra demos. He argues Astra works precisely because it leverages traditional human-engineered methods as its tools rather than discarding them — though he concedes this may only hold "for now."
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