Embodied AI Showdown: Who Is More Anxious, Algorithms or Hardware?

The most valuable insight from this article is that the embodied AI track is moving from "armchair strategy" to "hand-to-hand combat," and this brawl exposes a core contradiction long ignored by both academia and industry: no matter how beautifully reinforcement learning performs in simulation environments, in the real world it might not even be able to tighten a single screw.