Robotics researcher: SAM plus a light LM already handles most pick-and-place
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-09-12
Chris Paxton clarifies his concern about robot foundation models: current robotics baselines are weak and 'contact-light' — much pick-and-place can already be done well with Segment Anything (SAM) and a very light language model, suggesting foundation-model hype may overstate the gap for deployment-focused teams.
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