All researchers should fight against this. Every week I try to persuade my students that top papers often have few quantitative results. With work that's new, important, and clearly qualitatively different (zero to one!), you don't need quantitative results. Demos not tables!

There's a fascinating convergence in what different companies are working on. This blog post from Lucas is really insightful; the process of data creation and curation is absolutely essential to getting high quality results like this.

I'll be giving a talk @CoRL2025 about developing large behavior models on Atlas. Come by the dexterous manipulation workshop at 11:30 to see the talk, dex-manipulation.github.io/corl2025/