VC: almost none of real robot deployment data flows back into training
carrycooldude · x · 2026-10-06
Investor theboundlessvc flags a little-discussed problem in physical AI: almost none of the data from real robot deployments makes it back into training. Evals aren't standardized, annotation pipelines aren't shared, and retraining infrastructure is being built privately. He's hosting an Oct 22 event in Bangalore co-hosted with Qualcomm Dev bringing together teams actually deploying robots.
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