Robotics researcher Yacine mocks LLM-inspired RL robotics papers as 'basically wrong'
yacineMTB · x · 2026-09-13
Robotics researcher Yacine Lejeune amplified criticism that many robotics papers trivially apply LLM concepts to robotics scenarios and oversell the results. He then sarcastically doubled down, claiming that published RL robotics research is "basically wrong" as a way of doing things — a pointed jab at the current paradigm.
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