"Robotics' ChatGPT moment has not passed": no one has scaled across 30 unseen homes
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-09-18
Pushing back on the claim that robotics' ChatGPT moment has passed, ChrisGPT argues no company can yet show a robot going to 30 different homes and mapping a scaling law for tasks in homes it has never seen.
- He concedes Skilled AI is impressive but notes its generalization comes from much broader general data, without publishing success rates the way Figure did
- Robotics moves much slower than LLMs, he argues
- He also points out Skilled AI lacks manufacturing capacity to ship 100M humanoids within 10 years
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