Robotics researcher channels Elizabeth Holmes to mock Astra's "download tasks from cloud" hype
kvablack · x · 2026-11-11
A robotics researcher jokes that the next time someone at CoRL asks his opinion of Astra, he'll turn into Elizabeth Holmes, mimicking her famous wide-eyed pitch: "👁️👄👁️ so it downloads the task... from the cloud... it can do any task...." A pointed swipe at robot systems hyped as universally capable when they merely fetch tasks from the cloud.
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