The edge AI wall: Why embodied AI requires new mathematics
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If current planners are hitting a computational wall at the edge, the constraint on embodied AI is less model size and more algorithmic structure. Robotics teams betting on incremental LLM improvements to unlock autonomy should hedge with work on new planning formalisms and task decomposition that respect edge compute ceilings.
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