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iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks details why humanoid robots won't learn human-level dexterity from current methods, how to make them safe for humans, and more (Rodney Brooks)
https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dexterity/

Model Merging to Maintain Language-Only Performance in Developmentally Plausible Multimodal Models
Ece Takmaz, Lisa Bylinina, Jakub Dotlacil
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01845 htt…

Model Merging to Maintain Language-Only Performance in Developmentally Plausible Multimodal Models
State-of-the-art vision-and-language models consist of many parameters and learn from enormous datasets, surpassing the amounts of linguistic data that children are exposed to as they acquire a language. This paper presents our approach to the multimodal track of the BabyLM challenge addressing this discrepancy. We develop language-only and multimodal models in low-resource settings using developmentally plausible datasets, with our multimodal models outperforming previous BabyLM baselines. One…