MIT's Isola: Google's Astra Wins by Using Human-Engineered Methods, Not Bitter Lesson
MikeShou1 · x · 2026-09-12
MIT professor Phillip Isola pushes back on the idea that the bitter lesson is taking hold in robotics with Google's Astra demos: Astra works precisely because it leverages traditional human-engineered methods as its tools — "for now." Kostas Penn dubbed it "the sweet lesson."
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