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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post Tasha @TashaPais Article See new posts Conversation Nikolaus West @NikolausWest The data layer tax for robot learning 6 49 197 163K Scaling laws are starting to work for robotics, producing capabilities that were unthinkable just a few years ago. End-to-end models predict robot actions directly from sensor inputs, which simplifies the on-robot software but makes everything from data collection to training dramatically harder. LLM teams scaled on mature data infrastructure to improve performance through fast iteration on data. Robotics teams are trying to scale without it. Most teams build data tooling from scratch because existing infrastructure wasn't designed for the multi-rate and multimodal data that powers robotics learning. Across the data journey from collection to training, common operations are harder and slowe

Scaling laws are starting to work for robotics, producing capabilities that were unthinkable just a few years ago. End-to-end models predict robot actions directly from sensor inputs, which simplifies the on-robot software but makes everything from data collection to training dramatically harder. LLM teams scaled on mature data infrastructure to improve performance through fast iteration on data. Robotics teams are trying to scale without it. Most teams build data tooling from scratch because existing infrastructure wasn't designed for the multi-rate and multimodal data that powers robotics…

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