Next year will be the year of robotics evaluation — cool demos alone won't raise funding
DJiafei · x · 2026-11-06
A robotics practitioner predicts the coming year will be the year of robotics evaluation: cool demos just won't raise money anymore.
The takeaway: embodied robotics is shifting from demo-driven to benchmark-driven, with investors demanding reproducible, comparable measures of real capability.
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