@antopatrex1: the biggest robotics acquisition target right now is whoever owns the best real-world manipulation dataset. the models …
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Argues that the most valuable robotics acquisition target is the company owning the best real-world manipulation dataset, as models converge but data remains scarce and concentrated among a few players.
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the biggest robotics acquisition target right now is whoever owns the best real-world manipulation dataset. the models are converging fast. the data isn’t even close. hours of real robot interaction footage is the new oil and maybe 4 companies have enough of it to matter. https://t.co/zmJ2LvdP4R
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