Robotics researcher: manipulation may no longer be the best area for academic research
AvivTamar1 · x · 2026-11-13
Aviv Tamar endorses Chris Paxton's take that academia's goal is to propose the top N ideas that might scale, not to scale them or tackle real-world problems directly. Reading between the lines, Tamar adds that robotic manipulation may no longer be the best area for academic research today — implying the field has been effectively taken over by industry-scale training efforts.
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