Danfei Xu: "Robots are just computers" — a deflating realization
fdellaert · x · 2026-09-24
Danfei Xu, co-founder of Physical Intelligence, quipped on X: "It turns out robots are just computers. Very anticlimactic."
Georgia Tech professor Frank Dellaert replied with a playful "Expand :-)". The one-liner captures a current industry mood: embodied AI is increasingly a software and foundation-model problem, stripping away the mystique of robotics.
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