Robopsychologist

In Asimov's stories, a robopsychologist studies how robots think. These are my notes on AI and robotics: vision-language models, simulation, and what happens when they meet a real robot arm. — Daniiar Abdiev

September 2026

A vision-language model trained only in simulation runs a real robot arm

Jev-style decisions, now with vision. No teleoperation and no real-world demos: 104 seconds for a two-ball pick-and-place on a real SO-101.