Y Combinator cites MIT professor Philip Isola’s argument that we may be entering an era of “robot-use agents”: general-purpose models that can control different robots, write policies and learn new physical tasks with little or no robot-specific training. YC describes its Decoded discussion with Waddle Labs and Robocurve founders as exploring the research behind that idea, including models linking vision, language and action, plus the supporting software and evaluations needed for real-world use.