CoRL 2026: papers say teleop is optional, but demo-floor humanoids still rely on it
jonstephens85 · x · 2026-11-12
nikhilkr's takeaway from CoRL 2026: two parallel stories in robotics.
In talks, teleoperation is becoming optional:
- Ai2 trained a robot entirely in MuJoCo on 1.7M generated trajectories
- NVIDIA's GRAIL got a Unitree G1 climbing stairs with no teleop and no motion capture
On the floor, it's the opposite: most humanoid demos were still teleoperated, with operators hidden behind curtains.
Both are true — they measure different gaps. The papers track sim2real, shrinking fast; the expo floor exposes the lab-to-production gap around deployment and reliability, which has barely been addressed. jonstephens85 notes the same themes played out at IROS.
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