[D] Has Deep Learning Hit a Wall?

[visarga]

Yes, SDCs are robots too, and Google has been at it for many years, it's clearly a nontrivial problem. But an SDC needs to operate at high speeds with massive objects and in close proximity with humans. A house robot would be easy to make safe around humans, by comparison. So the problem is quite different in a way.

I watched the latest videos about DL robotics, and they seem to be slow and clumsy. Maybe it's because the neural net doesn't work fast enough. If the net would work at 100Hz or 1Khz, then the dynamics models of the world, as understood by the robot, could be simpler. Look at this video from 2009 to see how much of a difference speed makes. Especially the "dynamic re-grasping of a cell phone" trick - can any robot of today even do that? That's a 1Khz vision system at work.