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Essays on training data, distribution shift, perception, and the path from human demonstration to robot capability.
4 MIN READ · 12 Mar 2026
The robotics industry is having the wrong argument. Every week there is a new foundation model announcement, a new architecture breakthrough, a new benchmark result. The conversation is almost entirely about th...
Read the essay5 MIN READ · 13 Mar 2026
There is a pattern that everyone in industrial robotics recognises but almost nobody talks about publicly. A robot system performs well in controlled testing. The demo is impressive. The success rate looks stro...
Read the essay5 MIN READ · 14 Mar 2026
The robotics industry has a framing problem. Ask most people to describe the landscape and they will draw a binary: teleoperation on one side, autonomous robots on the other. Teleoperation is the bridge technol...
Read the essay5 MIN READ · 15 Mar 2026
The robotics industry obsesses over manipulation. Which gripper. Which arm. Which force controller. Which policy architecture. Almost nobody is talking about what the robot can see. This is a significant blind...
Read the essay10 MIN READ · 16 Oct 2026
Egocentric data collection means recording first-person video from a camera worn by someone doing a real task, then organising that footage so a robot learning system can train on it. The camera sees roughly wh...
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