Why advanced robots still struggle with simple tasks

Robots in 2024 are far more complex than their single-armed factory-working predecessors. Modern robots can run, jump, do the splits, and even hold down a basic conversation. At the same, despite decades of technical advancements and billions of dollars of investment, even the most advanced robot systems still struggle to do many everyday tasks humans take for granted like folding laundry or stacking blocks. Ironically, robots are quite bad at doing things we find easy. New advances in robot training take some inspiration from massively popular large language models like ChatGPT may change that… eventually.