Doshi: Robotics research hit a ceiling around 2020 and hasn't recovered
Suhail Doshi · Predicting AI’s Next Advances — With Suhail Doshi · Mar 20, 2024 · at 5:45
Playground CEO Suhail Doshi assesses why robotics progress stalled before the integration of multimodal AI models.
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“Broadly robotics kind of asymptoted and hit a ceiling. About like three or four years ago, and the research still isn't like kind of on a trajectory. That's amazing.”
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