DeepMind caveat: robot grasp policies drift on object permanence, sims still win
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-28
A comment highlighting DeepMind's own caveat about its robot foundation models: object permanence can drift over time, meaning a grasp policy may treat a cup that moved 2 cm between frames as a different object. The author argues physics simulators still hold the edge on contact-rich manipulation tasks.
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