{"id":48428,"date":"2026-11-05T16:52:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48428"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T21:52:50","slug":"this-robotics-concept-helps-explain-the-jaggedness-of-frontier-capabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48428","title":{"rendered":"This robotics concept helps explain the jaggedness of frontier capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sim-to-real gaps are everywhere.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/https3A2F2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com2Fpublic2Fimages2F6e014815-f7e2-4d14-96d9-f59373663d4c_1000x563.gif\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.7762289612219173;width:291px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingai.org\/p\/this-robotics-concept-helps-explain\">This robotics concept helps explain the jaggedness of frontier capabilities<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why does simulation work for walking but not hammering? A key difference, as Bracket Bot CEO Brian Machado <a href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingai.org\/p\/why-humanoid-robots-wont-catch-up\">explained to Kai<\/a>, is that \u201cthe floor doesn\u2019t do anything.\u201d Because the floor is a static object that doesn\u2019t change in response to a robot\u2019s actions, it\u2019s very easy to simulate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sim-to-real gaps are everywhere. Source: This robotics concept helps explain the jaggedness&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2070,36],"class_list":["post-48428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-aids","tag-robotics","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48431,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48428\/revisions\/48431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}