Chen Tessler
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- Malik asks if Astra is plagiarizing the papers it learned from
A junior researcher's blog post on credit assignment pulled in Jitendra Malik, Chris Paxton and Chen Tessler within hours.
- RoboDojo tests GPT-6 Astra, finds a physics gap
Chris Paxton calls it an incredibly good robotics model, Chen Tessler says it has no business doing short-horizon execution.
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- Astra demos hit a reproducibility wall
Three well known researchers say the viral clips look great and nobody outside the posters can repeat them.
- Malik dares LLM robotics fans to control a legged robot
A public challenge over whether a token-generating model belongs anywhere near a robot's control loop.
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