[quote="yanshi, post:1, topic:1145"]
Have you ever thought about where the real bottleneck is for humanoid robots to actually land? It's not dexterous hands, nor large models, but the fact that their working environments were never designed for them.
After reading this paper on probabilistic guarantees for shared autonomy, my first reaction was: finally, someone has shifted their focus from the robot body itself to the environment. The core of the paper is environmental design — instead of making robots adapt to the environment, it reverses the logic, letting the environment provide quantifiable reliability guarantees for the robot. This is far more pragmatic than optimizing control algorithms.
Let me state the conclusion first: the reliability bottleneck of shared autonomy (human-robot collaboration) is essentially an environmental design issue…
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The direction of standardizing environmental design is interesting, but where exactly lies the technical barrier? Is it the precision of sensor layout, or the universality of physical interfaces? Also, have any of you worked with teams building standard environmental components? What are their backgrounds like?
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