Keerthana Gopalakrishnan
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On X: Mother of robots. Research Lead Gemini Robotics @GoogleDeepmind. Author of "AI for Robotics" book. Opinions my own.
- Figure's 237 of 420 success rate turns into a fight
Tony Zhao says failing half the time is not useful work, and two other researchers say publishing the number at all deserves credit.
- Astra drove a robot arm from one human video, Xiao says
A first-pass success on one task, a self-written real2sim pipeline, and a benchmark post that says the gap is still ten times.
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- GPT-6 Astra hits 95% on a robot arm task, Chooi says
The model wrote end-effector poses directly, with no VLA in the loop, and researchers are already arguing about whether that is the cheap way to do it.
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