Roads to a Universal World Model, Part 4: The Roboticist’s Road
The robotics-native path: learning through touch and action
“The real robot data is the human fuel. It’s worse than fossil fuel. You’re burning human fuel.” — Jim Fan, NVIDIA
In 2023, Google DeepMind published a study showing that their RT-1 robot had learned to perform over 700 manipulation tasks by watching 130,000 human demonstrations. The demonstrations had been collected using 13 robots over 17 months in an …
