Verification register Robotics, Autonomy & Spatial
Current reading
The readiness gap, in one scan
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
- Claimed
- 70
- Reported
- 65
- Verified
- 57
- Gap
- +13
Public ambition and stated capability
Observed practitioner reporting
Independently supported evidence
Claimed minus verified
Evidence strength Strong
Decision
What the current evidence supports
Human editorial judgment · 2026-06-28
Proceed with caution
- Why
- Strong efficiency story and reproducible open weights/data on cheap hardware, but the pretraining-dependence, modest Meta-World numbers and limited embodiment coverage mean it needs in-domain validation before any reliance.
- Next
- Fine-tune SmolVLA-0.45B on an in-house SO-101 task set via LeRobot, measure real-world success against the 78.3% reference, and stress-test async inference latency on target CPU/GPU (e.g. Jetson Orin NX) hardware.
Constraints
Blockers
No named blocker is present in the current public projection.
Evidence summary
Derived counts
AI-assisted assembly
- Total
- 7
- Tier 1
- 0
- Tier 2
- 2
- Tier 3
- 5
- Supports
- 4
- Contradicts
- 2
- Context
- 1
- Latest observed
- 2026-04-16
Counts and dates only. Raw signals, private excerpts, trust records, and internal corpus material are not published here.
Publication record
Revisions
Initial public reading
This is the initial public reading. No earlier readiness change is recorded.