THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF ACTION: ONTOLOGY IN THE TIME BEFORE TOUCH

*By Dr. Brent Allen Jensen* We are standing at a precipice where the map no longer follows the territory; instead, the territory is being built to conform to the map before it ever touches ground. The recent unveiling of RoboPocket—a system that allows operators to visualize and correct robot policy trajectories via smartphone AR without physical execution—appears on its surface as an engineering triumph in data efficiency. It solves a logistical bottleneck: scaling imitation learning requires massive datasets…