Robotics researcher: scaling atoms is the neglected half, Western labs bet on the East
yunta_tsai · x · 2026-09-25
A robotics practitioner argues robot scaling has two halves: scaling bits (data, compute, models) and scaling atoms (real hardware and physical-world data). Most Western robotics groups scale bits and assume "someone in the East will scale atoms" — a pointed take on how embodied AI industrial capacity is being geographically split.
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