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Robotics Expert Warns Physical AI Overhyped By Flashy Demos

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ControlWiz@Control_wiz

I’ve been in robotics for about 7 years. For most of it, especially in controls, it was a pretty niche field. Now it seems like “physical AI” is the thing to do.

I’m glad robotics is getting all this attention, and we need more people to tackle these problems. But I also think it's overhyped and misleading. A lot of the spotlight is on curated demos or robots dancing/doing flips. They’re cool, but they make the field seem much further along than it really is.

The hard problems, robust manipulation, sim2real, long horizon autonomy, reliability and more, don’t make for a cool 30 sec demo.

8:05 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 14.7K Views
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kache@yacineMTB

follow this guy

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kache@yacineMTB

@Control_wiz we need more easily buildable robots and baselines, remote control hobby tier 3d printed crap

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leepy@leepy_cat

@Control_wiz egoscale solved sim2real btw

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ControlWiz@Control_wiz

@yacineMTB Appreciate that 🙏.

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fish@fishPointer

@yacineMTB ok!

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Giskard@giskard2

@Control_wiz @yacineMTB We need a new approach - transformers are versatile but they suck at reliability without harness engineering- feel like a dead end given the data constraints.

It’s fundamentally a problem of robust long horizon agency.

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Sengun@benjitusk

@yacineMTB when the guy i follow tell me to follow another guy

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Andrew — e/acc@astralmatrix

@Control_wiz physical AI, or AI-driven robotics became the thing once LLMs became capable enough. it's a very different problem to solve than fabricating robotics, especially humanoid robotics. the distinction is important bc the two tracks are running in parallel at the moment

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playerTwo@playerTwoQ

@yacineMTB when are you going to collab with the bps space guy to make a 6 pendulum rocket

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Sanket Patrikar@PatrikarSanket

@yacineMTB My favourite genre of tweets where people boost good accounts

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neotions@notneotions

@yacineMTB yes sir

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Samy@samymetref

@yacineMTB My ADHD brain telling me to start learning Robotics too…

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Chandra Shekhar 🛡️@cspaliwa1

@Control_wiz Hey I am amature is this

Could you list all "important" problems in simulation of robots?

I rn work on infinite edge cases

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AI Appreciator@ai_appreciator

@yacineMTB Okay. I’ll do it.

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Haowu@hwcgc5

@yacineMTB oki

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??????????????🐍@NabZO560

@Control_wiz can software help robotics ? whats missing there ? ( aside from AI )

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Matt DeMonte@mattdemonte

@Control_wiz There is a finding in neuroscience that in fact most of our brain is just being used to move our bodies around in space and use our hands etc. That is a bit of cold water when you think about what parts of our brain have been decently simulated (mostly language.)

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