Georgia Tech prof. @animesh_garg predicts the next 2 years of robotics will be "the return of the RL" as the field shifts from collecting data to learning from it: "Pillar one: how do you represent the environment? Should the input be objects? Should the input be completely latent? Should the input be somehow processed with a VLM or LLM? There is debate in the field." "Pillar two is fundamentally what people now call models of the world. World models or critic models or reward models, some…