I’ve spent the past few months diving into recent publications from conferences like CoRL, ICRA, IROS, RAUL, CVPR, and some preprints of note. It seems like we’re getting pretty close to robotic assistants that can perform a limited range of tasks and be deployed in people’s homes. Where do we think we are with this tech? What do you think is the biggest bottleneck we need to overcome? Do you think the “internet scale” behavioural cloning techniques from Google will lead the way? Or something more RL-VL oriented?
I’m at the start of an AI PhD with a focus on robotics so I’d love to hear people’s thoughts on this!
The best robots out there can barely even walk without toppling over lol. I do think we’re getting close with the “knowledge and understanding” side of AI with LLMs, but the “navigating the physical world” part seems further out.