Section 148 · Chapter 18, Embodied and Long-Running AI Systems
Embodied Robotics: Power, Latency, and Operating Cost
Robots are constrained by batteries, heat, time, compute, parts, maintenance, and the cost of every physical mistake.
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What to do
- Test energy per task, compute per task, token cost per task, latency distribution, thermal throttling, hardware wear, maintenance intervals, rescue frequency, and quality per dollar.
- Score the tradeoff: task success, noise, battery reserve, obstacle latency, path length, and whether the robot returns to charge before becoming a hallway sculpture.
- Define runnable checks that exercise latency and embodied robotics power latency cost.
Evidence to preserve
- Preserve the inputs, versions, configurations, raw outcomes, and results for latency, embodied robotics power latency cost needed to reproduce work on Embodied Robotics: Power, Latency, and Operating Cost.
- Report results for latency, embodied robotics power latency cost by relevant slice, separate blocker failures from averages, state uncertainty and blind spots, and connect the result to a release decision.
Expert note
In production work, measure p50, p95, and p99 latency; energy by subsystem; model-route decisions; local versus cloud inference; failure cost; and marginal quality gain per additional dollar. The best architecture is often a tiered system, not a single giant model doing everything.
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Jason Arbon. "Embodied Robotics: Power, Latency, and Operating Cost." Testing AI Knowledge Edition, section 148.
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