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VLA is Dead, Teleoperation is Dead! Said NVIDIA’s Robotics Lead

Jim Fan, head of NVIDIA’s robotics efforts, declared at Sequoia AI Ascent 2026 that VLA and teleoperation are obsolete, proposing World Action Models (WAM) as the new paradigm and betting on human egocentric video data. He unveiled projects like Dream Zero and EgoScale, discovered a neural scaling law for robot dexterity, and predicted the final three achievements on the robotics tech tree: Physical Turing Test (within 2-3 years), Physical API, and Physical Auto Research, all achievable by 2040.

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VLA is Dead, Teleoperation is Dead! Said NVIDIA’s Robotics Lead
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  • Jim Fan proclaimed the death of VLA, replaced by WAM as the new pre-training paradigm.
  • Teleoperation will fade, replaced by sensorized human data, especially egocentric video.
  • NVIDIA's EgoScale demonstrates the first neural scaling law for robot dexterity.
  • Only three milestones remain on the robotics tech tree, likely completed by 2040.

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