Hundreds of Figure 03s, and Malik calls Astra plagiarism
Jitendra Malik says AI models like Astra should be accused of plagiarism for not citing the papers they build on, including his own in-hand rotation work. Meanwhile a visitor says there are so many Figure 03s walking around that they photo-bombed his group photo.
Read the whole week in one goFigure's 237 out of 420 became the week's fight
Shown this week
Developer says a harness cut an Astra robot task from an hour to under a minute
@calixo888 says a harness he built around GPT-6 Astra took robot task execution from about an hour down to under a minute, after two days of side projecting. The prompt was simply to put the grey cup inside the orange cup, fast and with no mistakes.
our harness reduced robot task execution from 1hr to <1min
Out in the world
Visitor says hundreds of Figure 03s are ambling around the lab
Humanoid Scott says there are hundreds of Figure 03 robots walking around behind the reflective glass of a robotics lab, enough that they photo-bombed a group photo.
The verdict? Robotics has reached a tipping point.
Teleop and other arguments
Jitendra Malik asks whether Astra is plagiarizing the papers it builds on
Jitendra Malik says AI models such as Astra should arguably be accused of plagiarism because they do not cite the research they build on, noting he co-authored in-hand rotation papers that may have fed the Astra pen-spinning demo.
If certain kinds of creative work stops because incentives are disrupted, it is like farmers eating their seed corn.