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Why Robotics Still Isn't Solved - But Could Be Soon | YC Paper Club

Y Combinator — Aug 8, 2026 — talk

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Y Combinator's Paper Club hosts top AI and robotics researchers to discuss the current state of robotics, analyzing major roadblocks like the sim-to-real gap, action representation, and sensorimotor problems while presenting recent advances in embodied memory, dexterous tool manipulation learned entirely in simulation, and why teleoperation may be the key to building the next generation of robotics companies. This is a technical discussion aimed at developers and researchers working on AI-powered robotics.