Computer Vision Interview Questions, issue 21, Jan 22, 2026
The Data Scaling Trap
Senior Robotics Engineer interview at NVIDIA, and the interviewer asks:
“We need a robot to open any drawer in any user’s home. We cannot pre-train it on every possible handle shape. How do you build this?”
Why scaling vision data fails in the real world, and how semantic handoff beats brute-force perception.
The full answer, with the mechanism and the arithmetic, is for paid subscribers on Substack.