Self-play reaches 99.4% safe driving on 2,500x less human data

Claim

Spiced self-play hit 99.4% safe driving on 2,500 times less human data, while a $1,900 exoskeleton from Ant Group and Stanford lets people teach robots contact-rich tasks by feel, even blindfolded.

Reported metric: 99.4% / 2,500x less data

Reporting date: 2026-06-21 (not necessarily the event date)

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