Ken Goldberg
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On X: Artist and Engineering Prof @UCBerkeley, Co-Founder @AmbiRobotics & @JacobiRobotics. Interests: robots, rockets, redwoods, rebels.
- Adcock maps four stages of humanoids, Goldberg asks if data is dead
Two of the loudest voices in the field put opposite bets on the table in the same week.
- 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.
- Jitendra Malik asks if Astra is plagiarizing the work it uses
A junior researcher's blog post on credit assignment pulled two senior figures into a weekend argument about who gets cited when a model does the science.
- Lerrel Pinto sees "deep despair" as Astra zero-shots benchmarks
Chris Paxton started it, then walked part of it back within minutes.
- Astra demos hit a reproducibility wall
Three well known researchers say the viral clips look great and nobody outside the posters can repeat them.
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- 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.
- Michael Black says Astra made his ECCV paper obsolete
A senior vision researcher argues any paper at this year's conference is two years out of date, and Danfei Xu says robotics is next.
- 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.
- 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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