Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test

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How better data and human judgment can help robots move beyond demos toward reliable real-world performance. The post Why humanoid (a robot built in roughly human shape) robot demos still fail the generalization test appeared first on The Robot Report .

The Robot Report Podcast · Why humanoid robot demos still fail the generalization test Jeanine Sinanan-Singh, director of GenAI research at Appen. She discusses the continuing importance of humans in the loop for training robots.

Sinanan-Singh works on agentic (AI that carries out multi-step tasks rather than answering one question) evals, RL environments, and dataset design for post-training frontier AI models. She also explains why impressive demonstrations don’t necessarily prove that robotic behavior can be generalized.