Robotics startups must deploy ASAP — sim and world models are just proxies, argues Wayve VP
m_wulfmeier · x · 2026-10-31
mwulfmeier (VP of Research at Wayve) argues that simulation, world models, lab robots and robot gyms are all proxies for deployment, and data is never free — including training compute.
- LLMs succeeded because deployment is easy, letting you quickly learn the value of your proxies
- Robotics being hard doesn't justify delaying deployment
- What matters most for robotics startups now is not the base-tech pitch but the application pitch — "monkey first," test what matters
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