Vikash Kumar on Manipulation Needs Embodied Action

Vikash Kumar, a robotics researcher and CEO of MyoLab.ai, replied to Scobleizer in an AI discussion. He stated that navigation is definite yet the frontier in manipulation requires embodied action. Semantic LRFW labels remain easy to acquire during navigation but prove quite non trivial otherwise. The comment identifies manipulation as the harder domain for acquiring those labels compared with navigation tasks.