Child beats two robot policies in first live Child-Robot Challenge at CoRL 2026
kastnerkyle · x · 2026-11-15
At CoRL 2026, a live Child-Robot Challenge — proposed earlier by Jitendra Malik as an antidote to hype-y robot demo videos — pitted two robot policies against a child on task completion, scored by speed weighted by success. The robots were trounced, as expected. Malik frames this as honest, quantifiable benchmarking in the spirit of PASCAL's 5%-accuracy origins, arguing progress will eventually let robots surpass humans across the board.
Related event: Kids Crush Robots at CoRL 2026 Child-vs-Robot Dexterity Challenge(4 posts)→
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