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Robot Systems

The article linked below makes a convincing1 argument for building not just robots, but robot systems. This change will never happen under the current funding structure, which only rewards work that can be sold as revolutionary.2 Robot systems don't meet this criteria.

Don’t build robots, build robot systems

  1. I personally don't need much convincing on this point; I've seen the divide between the state of the art in research and the actual state of the art in practice.  ↩

  2. What can be sold as revolutionary and what actually is revolutionary overlap a lot less often than you might expect.  ↩