Robotics academics in despair as Astra, Fable, Muse zero-shot benchmarks
LerrelPinto · x · 2026-09-13
NYU professor Lerrel Pinto says he senses "deep despair" among academics after Astra, Fable and Muse achieved zero-shot performance on robotics benchmarks and world models. He calls it an uneasy pill to swallow but exactly what step-jump progress looks like; Ken Goldberg agrees it's thrilling to witness a paradigm shift in robotics.
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