Tony Zhao(@tonyzzhao):Love my friends at figure, but failing half the time is not “doing real useful work.” See the 237/420 success rate below taken from the blog. Doing useful work = generalization + reliability.

Tony Zhao

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Co-founder and CEO @sundayrobotics. Stanford PhD dropout, ex Deepmind, Tesla, GoogleX

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Tony Zhao@tonyzzhao

2026.09.17 20:05

Love my friends at figure, but failing half the time is not “doing real useful work.” See the 237/420 success rate below taken from the blog. Doing useful work = generalization + reliability.

Brett Adcock@adcock_brett

2026.09.17 18:45

The holy grail for robotics is being able to generalize: doing work in unseen places We rented 30 homes in the Bay Area and are doing tasks without any new training