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The Robot's ImageNet Moment, and why seeing isn't the same as understanding.

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Jan 26, 2026
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Chapter 3 of A Brief History of Embodied Intelligence

“A room full of robots failing over and over, with no human intervention. After 800,000 attempts, they could pick up things they had never seen before.”

On October 1, 2012, in a conference room in Florence, Italy, the results of the ImageNet challenge were announced. The room was packed with computer v…

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