Verification register Robotics, Autonomy & Spatial
Current reading
Readiness band and full integer triple
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
Readiness band
Emerging
Primary summary from verified readiness
- Confidence
- 65% · stale
- Computed at
- 2026-08-20T10:56:13.569084+00:00
- Claimed
- 20
- Reported
- 20
- Verified
- 18
- Gap
- +2
Public ambition and stated capability
Observed practitioner reporting
Independently supported evidence
Claimed leads verified
Evidence strength Weak
Decision
What the current evidence supports
Human editorial judgment · 2026-08-20
Track; not yet
- Why
- RT-2 established the VLA paradigm (robot actions as text tokens output by a web-scale VLM) that every current robot-foundation-model line descends from, but the specific artifact is a July 2023 research demonstration, cloud-TPU-bound at 1-3 Hz, unable to learn new low-level motions, never open-sourced, and architecturally superseded by Gemini Robotics in March 2025 -- so it merits historical/provenance tracking, not active adoption.
- Next
- Keep RT-2 as the cited founding VLA reference in the register; direct technical evaluation effort stays on its actively-developed descendants already tracked (e.g. Physical Intelligence pi0.7, Gemini Robotics) rather than RT-2 itself, which is not deployable or maintained.
Constraints
Blockers
No named blocker is present in the current public projection.
Evidence summary
Derived counts
AI-assisted assembly
- Total
- 6
- Tier 1
- 0
- Tier 2
- 1
- Tier 3
- 5
- Supports
- 4
- Contradicts
- 1
- Context
- 1
- Latest observed
- 2026-05-01
Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.
Publication record
Revisions
Initial public reading
- 2026-08-20 Reading moved from emerging to emerging.