Shuran Song: robot data is not a quantity problem — a week of pick-and-place logs 600GB yet is nearly useless elsewhere
le_james94 · x · 2026-10-13
The claim lejames94 keeps returning to from the ETH lectures: the robot data bottleneck is reuse, not quantity.
A pick-and-place robot running nonstop for a week logs 600GB — more than the 570GB of text behind GPT-3 on Song's slide — yet is nearly useless for a different robot or task. Song's rule: "There's no data size too small," as long as it's portable enough to aggregate. The graphic visualizes the stark comparison.
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