WR1.0: Does Whole-Body Humanoid Control Prove Generalization?
Does WR1.0's clothes-folding demonstration establish a general-purpose whole-body humanoid foundation model? This episode separates the announced capability from the research evidence needed to judge autonomous manipulation, generalization, and deployment readiness. We examine three questions: what Westlake's related GAE motion-tracking research actually measures; why coordinated body movement is not equivalent to successful object manipulation; and which experiments would make a long-horizon generalization claim convincing. The discussion spans simulation evaluation and real-hardware…
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