Some recent thoughts. ICL is useful. RL is useful. VLA, sim2real, world models, memory—all of these technologies can contribute to building general-purpose robots. But we should remember that a general-purpose robot is still a robot: a physical product that ultimately needs to be deployed and deliver real value to customers. Once you look at the actual challenges of deployment, it becomes clear that no single technique is enough. It requires a full system, with careful attention to detail across models, hardware, infrastructure, reliability, and operations. Even at the model level, it’s unlikely that any single idea will be the answer. VLA, RL, sim2real, world models, ICL, memory, and many other approaches will likely all play a role. The real challenge is combining them in the right way, so they complement each other and maximize the capability and utility of the overall system. So IMO, there’s no need to overhype any single technical term. This industry would benefit from staying calm and patient, and focusing on building the holistic system that can actually work reliably in the real world and create real customer value.

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TRON Camp 2026 Documentary EP.04 | When Code Walks Out of Simulation By Day 1, the students had already brought a humanoid robot to life. Across five days, they moved from simulation to real hardware, validating, deploying, and tuning their algorithms on real terrain. What once felt like a long journey from code to reality became a first step, taken by the robot — and by them. TRON Camp 2026 officially comes to a close. See you next year! #LimXDynamics# #TRONCamp2026# #EmbodiedAI# #Locomotion# #Sim2Real#