SCOUT· 42%29m·2026-09-26·TechnologyRobot-Use Agents: Why General-Purpose Models May Win in Robotics
One of the biggest surprises in AI over the last few years has been how well coding agents generalize beyond software. In a recent essay, MIT professor Philip Isola argued that we may be entering the era of robot-use agents: general-purpose models that can control different robots, write policies, and learn new…
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