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**Author:** [@menlo](https://forum.menlo.ai/u/menlo)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2026, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/about-the-research-category/15 "2026-03-25T07:52:35Z")
For research papers, technical discussions, and emerging ideas in AI, robotics, and embodied intelligence. Discuss new research, analyze papers, and explore technical ideas shaping the future of AI and robotics. When p… --- ## [Why VLAs are so viewpoint brittle?](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/why-vlas-are-so-viewpoint-brittle/66)
**Author:** [@Ishneet\_Singh](https://forum.menlo.ai/u/Ishneet_Singh)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [September 29, 2026, 3:47am UTC](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/why-vlas-are-so-viewpoint-brittle/66 "2026-09-29T03:47:11Z")
TL;DR: a tripod nudge can push the policy much further out of distribution than a completely new object layout. Fixing this likely requires multi-view training, viewpoint augmentation, or representations explicitly encou… --- ## [A new arm is free. A new gripper is not](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/a-new-arm-is-free-a-new-gripper-is-not/68)
**Author:** [@Ishneet\_Singh](https://forum.menlo.ai/u/Ishneet_Singh)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2026, 1:47am UTC](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/a-new-arm-is-free-a-new-gripper-is-not/68 "2026-09-22T01:47:07Z")
TL;DR: I ran a frozen \`pi05\_libero\` on arms it was never trained on. UR5e and the I2RT YAM both go 20/20, same as the Panda it was fine-tuned on, as long as the wrist camera sits in the same place relative to the fingers… --- ## [Physical AI data collection: Where are today's biggest bottlenecks?](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/physical-ai-data-collection-where-are-todays-biggest-bottlenecks/64)
**Author:** [@vro2](https://forum.menlo.ai/u/vro2)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [August 7, 2026, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/physical-ai-data-collection-where-are-todays-biggest-bottlenecks/64 "2026-08-07T06:22:34Z")
Hi everyone! I’m Olga, founder of VR Oxygen. We built infrastructure for distributed spatial tasks and are now exploring how it can support Physical AI and robotics data collection. I’m hoping to learn from teams alread… --- ## [This week's experiment update: Kepler v0.2](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/this-weeks-experiment-update-kepler-v0-2/63)
**Author:** [@linus](https://forum.menlo.ai/u/linus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 4, 2026, 10:06am UTC](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/this-weeks-experiment-update-kepler-v0-2/63 "2026-08-04T10:06:27Z")
One of our goals with Menlo is to share our research process, including experiments that don’t go as expected. This week, we ran follow-up experiments on Kepler v0.1 to understand why our pretrained encoder wasn’t impro… --- ## [This week's Kepler v0.2 experiment updates](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/this-weeks-kepler-v0-2-experiment-updates/56)
**Author:** [@linus](https://forum.menlo.ai/u/linus)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2026, 6:02am UTC](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/this-weeks-kepler-v0-2-experiment-updates/56 "2026-07-27T06:02:09Z")
One of our goals with Menlo is to share our research process, including experiments that don’t go as expected. This week, we ran follow-up experiments on Kepler v0.1 to understand why our pretrained encoder wasn’t impro…