# Alex Albert says robotics will also follow the bitter lesson

> Original title: btw robotics will fall to the bitter lesson too

- Source: Alex Albert
- Published: 2026-11-09T19:09:10.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/wcywdy8ue81rdxne9hzjc1031
- Original: https://x.com/alexalbert__/status/2119869925288558799

## Summary

Alex Albert, who is affiliated with Anthropic, says robotics will fall to the bitter lesson too. A quoted @claudeai post says the Fable 5.2 model shows substantially improved robot control, including on tasks it was not explicitly trained for, and it outperformed other models and most robot-control AI systems on the RoboDojo simulated two-arm benchmark.

## Post

btw robotics will fall to the bitter lesson too

## Quoted post @claudeai

> Fable 5.2 shows substantially improved skills in controlling physical robots, even on tasks it has never explicitly been trained to do.
> 
> On RoboDojo, a benchmark with a simulated two-arm robot, it outperformed other models and most AI systems built to control robots.

https://x.com/claudeai/status/2119867132452221045