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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Robotics has a bootstrapthat computing never had:making robots is physical… SL Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 A robot working alongside a person beats either one alone, and that pairing is also what makes the technology possible to bootstrap. A robot workingalongside a person… SL Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 Robotics will improve the rest of AI rather than the other way round, because embodiment is what teaches a model which parts of the world matter. Robotics will improvethe rest of AI rather… SL Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 Once a robot is good enough, you can teach it with words instead of with demonstrations, and language becomes a training signal for motor skill. Once a robot is goodenough, you can teach… SL Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 Robots will be given more scope as they get more capable, exactly the way coding assistants went from completing a function to writing a pull request. Robots will be givenmore scope as they get… SL Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 A humanoid robot is the wrong tool on a factory floor, because a machine specialised in the task beats it. A humanoid robot is thewrong tool on a factory… MH Molson Hart — holds since 2025-04-06 A robot is not a mechanical person; the right analogy is a car or a bulldozer, and heterogeneous machines will beat humanoids. A robot is not amechanical person; the… SL Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 Better AI makes robots cheaper, because cheap visual feedback removes the need for expensive mechanical precision. Better AI makes robotscheaper, because cheap… SL Sergey Levine — holds since 2025-09-12 Industrial robots are not the fix for American manufacturing, and betting on automation misreads why production sits elsewhere. Industrial robots arenot the fix for… MH Molson Hart — holds since 2025-04-06 AV Austin Vernon — holds since 2026-02-12
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