Humanoid Factory Deploy Stalls: Teleop Intervention Every 6 Minutes After 15 Weeks
ZeeshanZiaML · x · 2026-11-11
An ML practitioner with 7+ years in manufacturing video models shares data from a top lab: a fine-tuned VLA doing standardized crankshaft picking still needed teleop intervention every 6 minutes after 15 weeks of training. He argues this doesn't scale—narrow tasks like Agility, or a call-center model with weekly fine-tuning and 1 operator per 5 robots—since real factories rarely have 5+ people on identical tasks. A slide from another deployment shows 340.3s MTBI at 98.2% autonomy by week 6, claimed to support 50 robots with 3 remote assistants.
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