Robotics researchers debate: "Pure robotics research will end next year"
danfei_xu · x · 2026-11-11
Tonghe Zhang claimed "pure robotics research will end next year," prompting roboticist Danfei Xu to quip: "Maybe we can finally stop training robotics models and start doing robotics?" — a pointed take on the field's shift away from model-training-centric research toward generalist models and real-world deployment.
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