Comment by Animats

This is huge. There's been so little progress on manipulation over the years. The 1960s Stanford AI lab videos don't look much worse than current work.

Part of the trick here seems to be using Gaussian splatting as an intermediate form for vision data. That's a new idea. Gaussian splatting is a brute-force process that doesn't try to generate a full 3D model reconstruction or object recognition. It can be applied to any visual scene where at least two viewpoints are available.

This just might get robotic manipulation unstuck. Good target for VC funding.