Lerrel Pinto
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On X: Making robots more dexterous, robust and general. co-leading robotics at Meta MSL.
- Matic claims 99.999% visual SLAM across 16,000 homes
Nine years in, the floor cleaner company says perception is nearly done and manipulation is phase two.
- Lerrel Pinto takes a swipe at billion-dollar robot demos
He named no company and no demo, and Mahi Shafiullah replied with a quoted line and a link.
- Grounded ships an API that turns everyday video into robot data
The company claims state of the art hand tracking under 1 cm, and Lerrel Pinto says the hard part is still turning human data into robots.
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- 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.
- Pathak verified Skild's $100M ARR in person, Scott says
The number is contract-based recurring revenue, not units shipped, and it landed the same week Agility's SPAC filing showed $1.8M in revenue.
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