Can Agentic Robotics Solve Robotics’ Data Scaling Problem?

Robotics companies are investing heavily in the belief that data will solve the most difficult problems in robotics. Once AI systems have ingested enough data from human demonstrations, the thinking goes, robots will be able to perform the vast majority of the manual tasks that humans now do. There are even robotics companies that exist solely to collect training data and sell it to other robotics companies in pursuit of this goal. But whether data will finally bring us general-purpose robots is