what makes you think they are explicitly choreographing each facet of movement? they show they run simulations first, so they first explore a large range of wa

what makes you think they are explicitly choreographing each facet of movement? they show they run simulations first, so they first explore a large range of ways to achieve goals, that would be incredibly expensive to manually micromanage. obviously they "compile" the highlevel tasks into lower level "bare metal machine language" ones, to make a metaphor. the people who design a domain specific "compiler" need "intermediate languages" for interpretability and debugging. the fact they give us a peak at their "debugging" capabilities should not be misinterpreted as a bunch of engineers hardcoding in the "assembly language" of robot control. it seems bizarre to view the advanced state of their software tool suite (inspectability, visualizations, ...) as a sign of primitiveness. The subjective experience of becoming aware of the full frontal details of a car when popping open the hood doesn't suddenly demonstrate the "primitiveness" of the car, but rather the subject's prior lack of awareness of how things work...