Software is the main bottleneck in ML at the moment, imo. That and data. The hardware problem, which the author discusses briefly, has been more or less solved

Software is the main bottleneck in ML at the moment, imo. That and data. The hardware problem, which the author discusses briefly, has been more or less solved in the industry I'm only a casual long time observer, but I think there's an opportunity here for haptic teleoperation. Data could be gathered from haptic teleoperators in much the same way that Tesla is gathering data for self-driving AI. Back in the 90's and early 2000's, Sarcos corp's website used to have a crappy realmedia video of a full-arm haptic rig operating an over-sized hydraulic arm casually holding an anvil like a beer mug. So evidently, we've been able to do full-body haptics and human-level agility manipulators for quite awhile. (Research in that stuff actually started in the 1970's!) On-orbit teleoperation from the ground could have interesting applications.