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Robotics is almost solved! Pun intended. Sunday published a "Solve" standard. They declared the scope (garment types, lighting, surfaces, starting configurations) and adaptation cost (zero—no fine-tuning per home) before evaluating. The same model weights run everywhere. This might be the differentiation between a good demo and reliable work of...

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