The Lambda
deep learning blog

Published on September 9, 2026 by Jianwen Xie

Giving robots better 3D perception Robots are becoming increasingly capable of learning manipulation skills directly from images. Most robot policies still ...

Published on September 1, 2026 by Jianwen Xie

Peer review is buckling A scientist lives two lives. In one, they produce research. In the other, they judge everyone else's. That second job, peer review, is ...

Published on August 25, 2026 by Jianwen Xie

For two years, the field has gotten very good at training models, and it still hand-wires the agents around them. Whether an agent plans, searches, calls a ...

Published on July 20, 2026 by Jianwen Xie

Point a camera at a room. Get back a complete, editable 3D model of everything in it: the sofa, the table, the chairs, each one a clean mesh you can rotate, ...