Jitendra Malik proposes '5-year-old paired test' to deflate robot manipulation demos
BradPorter_ · x · 2026-11-04
UC Berkeley professor Jitendra Malik mocks weekly "manipulation is solved" robot demos and proposes a '5-year-old paired comparison test': at the next conference, robots compete side-by-side with a 5-year-old child on 100 neutral-chosen household manipulation tasks. Robotics veteran Brad Porter is asking whether to actually run it at CoRL next week — a public push to replace demo hype with verifiable benchmarks.
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