UC Berkeley RDI(@BerkeleyRDI):To teach a robot, the industry put humans in VR rigs. @DrJimFan, Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist at Nvidia, calls them medieval torture devices that fundamentally do not scale. He trains almost entirely on ordinary human video instead, letting data collection fade into the background. Can video alone teach dexterity? You can see a hand move. You cannot see the force it used. Drop your take below. 👇

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2026.09.22 16:00

To teach a robot, the industry put humans in VR rigs. @DrJimFan, Director of Robotics & Distinguished Scientist at Nvidia, calls them medieval torture devices that fundamentally do not scale. He trains almost entirely on ordinary human video instead, letting data collection fade into the background. Can video alone teach dexterity? You can see a hand move. You cannot see the force it used. Drop your take below. 👇