Robotics needs its own CERN or Hubble to cut through the noise
DJiafei · x · 2026-11-02
A viewpoint making the rounds: robotics research is drowning in noise and needs a CERN- or Hubble-style shared scientific infrastructure to surface the signals that matter.
It points at a structural gap in embodied AI — data, evaluation and benchmarks are scattered across labs and companies, with no shared large-scale platform to accumulate trustworthy conclusions.
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