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Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti by noduerme on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @10:51PM (#45122983)
Or a generalized model to develop them in a virtual sandbox before deploying them physically, which I think is more likely.
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Re:The Bitter Lesson Is Misunderstood – By Kushal Chakrabarti by don_esteban on Friday September 05, 2025 @10:03AM (#45138725)
I think the bottleneck for this is still the cost of the physical hw of the robot, and its maintenance.

You need a fairly robust one that needs little maintenance, with a multitude of good sensors and precise actuators to be even remotely useful for sufficiently wide range of tasks (so that you have economy of scales). None of that comes cheap.

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