Robotics papers on arXiv hit 210 per day, up from 20-30 four years ago
DJiafei · x · 2026-10-02
- A robotics PhD noticed 210 robotics papers were listed on arXiv in a single day.- When he started his PhD four years ago, the field averaged only 20-30 new papers per day — roughly a tenfold increase.- He quips that this looks like recursive self-improvement: AI is visibly accelerating research output in robotics.
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