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skybriantoday at 4:19 AM1 replyview on HN

The mathematics research results are certainly impressive, but I don't see what that has to do with robotics.

Waymo is getting somewhere, but it's been a long slog. There doesn't seem to be much progress on, say, package delivery.

For more, see:

https://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard


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frrttoday at 4:35 AM

That’s because being 99.9999% good isn’t better than 98% + human does the rest + human is liable for screw ups - highly important in edge case scenario’s. It’s more economical. Technology can only generalise+verify so much.

E.g automobile production - humans do the QA / touches.