"The Sensor Illusion" or Why Your AI Agent Might Be Flying Blind

Would you trust a robot with no sensors? Then why are we building AI agents that way? In robotics, we obsess over sensors. We use cameras for vision, lidar for depth, IMUs for motion, force sensors for manipulation. Each one is painstakingly selected, calibrated, and fused into a representation of the world — the robot's working reality. But for AI agents , we often treat the data pipeline as an…