Thresholds, Trade-offs, and the Art of Not Overthinking Your Robot
A robot pauses in front of a table. There is a block, a can, a box, and something that is either on top of something else or merely enjoying a close and misleading friendship. A camera sends pixels. A perception model sends predictions. A planner wants a symbolic fact: On(A, B) or not. The expensive mistake is pretending that this last step is clean. ...