'Are robots just chatbots with arms?' Reddit debates what's really inside robot stacks
ironAtlasuy7 · reddit · 2026-11-14
A Redditor asks whether robots are now just 'chatbots with arms', noting demos always credit the chat model. They point to LingBot-Touch — a separate model just so fingers can feel — as evidence the stack is more complex. The thread explores how LLMs layer with small specialized models in real robot systems.
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