do you know how undefined and difficult to measure it is to load silverware into a dishwasher?

As someone who actually has built robots to solve similar challenges, I’ve got a pretty good idea of that specific problem. Not too far from putting sticks in a cup, which is doable with a lot of situational variance.

Will it do as good a job a competent adult? Probably not. Will it do it as well as the average 6 year old kid? Yeah, probably.

But given enough properly loaded dishwashers to work from, I think you might be surprised how effective VLA/VLB models can be. We just need a few hundred thousand man hours of dishwasher loading for training data.