'Everything leads back to actuators': the robot field's favorite bottleneck mantra
kyliebytes · x · 2026-10-02
A short but widely circulated quip in AI circles: "everything, and i mean everything, leads back to actuators."
The point: in embodied AI and robotics, the real bottleneck is often the actuator hardware, not models or algorithms — a common counter to the narrative that foundation models alone will crack robotics.
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