Priya Nair

Why "general purpose" is the wrong way to think about humanoid robots

Every humanoid company on the planet uses the word "general purpose". Researchers say that framing hides where the real value is going to land.

Priya Nair · 23 May · 3 min

Vision-language-action models hit a memory wall, and three labs are trying to break it

The latest VLA models are starting to fail in a specific, predictable way: they remember the last few seconds, and not much more. Researchers are racing to fix it.

Priya Nair · 23 May · 3 min

The "robotics generalist" question gets a useful new benchmark

A new benchmark suite makes the question of robotic generalisation testable in a way previous benchmarks did not.

Priya Nair · 14 May · 3 min

Code generation for robot tasks has improved dramatically. The reliability gap between generated and human-written code is narrowing.

Priya Nair · 3 May · 3 min

A growing body of research suggests that internet video is a better training signal for robot policies than expensive human demonstrations.

Priya Nair · 3 May · 3 min

After years of academic promise, soft grippers are being deployed at scale in food processing. The application was hiding in plain sight.

Priya Nair · 1 May · 3 min