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Florence: Scaling physical interaction data must precede robotic model architectures
“You need to have data to learn stuff, and everybody's robots were just sitting still, and it just felt like we have to get on this path where like, we're actually moving and physically interacting with the world at scale, and then we'll figure out all the rest…”
Florence: Simple robotic grippers paired with high intelligence can accomplish most tasks
“Pairing human-level intelligence with even very simple you know, as you said, Vivek end-effectors, like, you can really accomplish a lot in the world.”
Florence: Model intelligence, not mechanical ability, has always blocked robotics progress
“The main blocker the entire time has been the intelligence, not so much like the sort of mechanical ability.”
Florence: Early robotics research was constrained by assumptions of data scarcity
“The place that everybody was coming to it from was just assuming that we'll never have a lot of data for robotics, and we need to do everything we can to try and design our system smarter, or like, figure out tricks along the way to try and get robotics starte…”