Temporal and spatial alignment between glove and camera data.... It is not an easy task, but it’s coming together. Human data for robots. #Roboticsshow more

Robotics is obsessed with foundation models and humanoids. It’s... missing the most critical piece. One founder just raised $3M to build the “AWS for robots.” Fixing the silent bottleneck for most robotics startup: Data Infrastructure: 🧵show more

Planet’s constellation of satellites offer 3-5 meter spatial and... near-daily temporal resolution, which translates to better data and more accurate insights.show more

Planet’s constellation of satellites offer 3-5 meter spatial and... near-daily temporal resolution, which translates to better data and more accurate insights.show more

Sensei Robotics (YC S24) helps robotics companies generate high-quality... robotics training data at scale. Their platform collects human demonstration data at a tenth of the cost and twice the speed of current approaches.show more

Something big is happening in robotics - and it’s... hiding in plain sight. This post is not about dancing robots but in the data that powers them. Open robotics datasets have exploded this year, turning the field into a more scalable and collaborative ecosystem. In just two years, Hugging Face datasets grew from 11k to over 600k - and robotics is by far the fastest-growing segment. We went from 1k robotics datasets in 2024 to 27k in 2025! For comparison, text generation, the second-largest category, has only around 5k datasets in 2025. That gap is massive. Open datasets are important because robotics lives and dies by real-world robot data - video, actions, sensors, failures. By making this data easy to upload, reuse, and benchmark, researchers, startups, and large players are now releasing real-robot datasets that would have stayed locked inside labs just a few years ago. Major contributors include NVIDIA, LeRobot initiative, and a rapidly growing maker community. This surge is also enabled by cheaper video storage, better tooling, and an open-source AI culture now spilling into the physical world. And it really matters: open robotics data dramatically lowers entry barriers, accelerates learning-by-doing, and speeds up progress toward generalist and humanoid robots. Robotics won’t scale through hardware alone - but to a large extent through shared data. Viz below from AI World - link to the story and more viz/filters in comment.show more

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Until now, robotics stopped where the human hand begins.... Strong, but not delicate. Precise, but not adaptive. Repetitive, but not creative. The human hand wasn’t a benchmark — it was a boundary. We are crossing it. Eka Robotics, Inc.. Coming soon.show more

AI runs on data. but most of it is... stale, outdated, static. what if intelligence was powered by living signals from real human activity? introducing: 𝐳𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 - the Data Layer Powering Zentry and The AI Data Economy ⇢show more

Each of us navigates our surroundings using sight and... sound together. The sensor system in the Rivian Autonomy Platform works the same way. It takes data from cameras, radar and – coming soon – LiDAR, then fuses them together in an instant. Not as separate inputs but as one complete picture of the world that’s more precise than any single type of data could be on its own.show more

💡Data Scraping vs. Data Mining: Understanding the Difference Ever... wondered why OptimAI Network emphasizes Data Mining over simple web scraping? Here’s why: 🔹Web Scraping is surface-level, capturing raw data from websites without context, validation, or depth. 🔹Data Mining, however, is a deeper, intelligent process—extracting, analyzing, validating, and refining data into structured insights essential for advanced AI models. 💫 Why OptimAI Focuses on Data Mining? OptimAI's decentralized nodes don’t just collect data—they actively validate, annotate, and refine it. By leveraging collective human intelligence, edge computing, and autonomous AI agents, we deliver the high-quality, real-world data necessary for powering sophisticated AI. 💫 Why It Matters—and Why You Should Join Now Participate now via our OptimAI Lite Node, and become a foundational part of building the most comprehensive decentralized Reinforcement Data Network for Agentic AI. Mine data, fuel innovation, and earn OPI rewards. 👉 Chrome Extension Node: 👉 Telegram Node: Together, let's redefine data for #DePIN #AI.show more

Spatial AI ( is building large real-world datasets to... teach robots how to navigate the world and complete tasks. Their first open source dataset, SEA (Spatial Everyday Activities), is the largest curated egocentric dataset of people carrying out real tasks, with 10,000 hours of data.show more

📢 Nuklai Insights: Building Multi Datasets for Next Generation... Insights Full Blog: We live in an era where #data is valuable, but only a few organizations mine ⛏️ insights from data. Idle data is now a cost, a risk, and an opportunity lost. $NAIshow more

China is scaling humanoid robotics at an insane speed.... Super realistic robots from Ex-Robots are now reportedly entering mass production 🤖 - Not prototypes. - Not lab experiments. - Actual production. The biggest shift happening in robotics isn’t just intelligence anymore. It’s making robots look and behave socially acceptable around humans. And honestly… we’re reaching the point where some people may not immediately realize they’re talking to a robot. Exciting future or uncomfortable future? Media : Ex-Robots ⚠️ This content is shared for informational purposes only. CTO Robotics Media is a media platform and does not own or develop the technology shown. Credit belongs to the original creators.show more

2026 is also going to be the year of... data collection for robotics.show more

Two spacetimes, one data value chain >India: Workers’ headcams... record garment sewing egocentric data flows to AI/robotics companies. >China: Operators teleoperate humanoid robots in warehouses, sorting packages …validating the system ,collecting real-world training data.show more

A Letter to Our Community: The Road Ahead for... Robotics To our Community and Partners, As we step into 2026, our mission at Axis is clearer than ever: Constructing the definitive End-to-End Scaling Layer for Robotics. Our goal is to accelerate the transfer of diverse human intelligence into Robotics General Intelligence (RGI). By owning the critical path of intelligence creation, we are turning the physical limitations of robotics into a scalable, software-driven future. Here is our strategic outlook and roadmap for the year ahead. The Core Thesis: Simulation is the Only Way Out The path to RGI is currently blocked by Data Scarcity, Generalization Fragility, and Hardware Fragmentation. At Axis, we believe Simulation is the only way out. Our Simulation Data Platform and Data Augmentation Engine transform raw data into "Synthetic Gold". Backed by academic milestones like Roboverse, Skill Blending, and GraspVLA, we have proven that pure simulation can achieve the generalization required for the real world. We don’t just collect data; we architect it. The Engine: Why Crypto? We believe RGI should come from all, not a few. Crypto is not just a feature; it is the primitive that powers our entire ecosystem flywheel: - Incentive Mechanism: Democratizing contribution and rewarding the trainers and developers. - Assetization: Turning proprietary data and refined models into liquid, ownable assets. - Verifiable Workflow: We are opening the "Black Box" of AI. By bringing total transparency to the Task Generation → Data Collection → Model Training pipeline, we ensure every byte of intelligence is verifiable, traceable, and secure. 2026 Strategic Deliverables This year, we are committed to delivering three foundational pillars: - The World's Largest Training Dataset for Robots: A robot training set—diverse, high-quality interaction data at an unprecedented scale. - A Robotics Foundation Model: A universal robotic brain trained on our pure simulation and synthetic data, capable of robust cross-embodiment transfer and open-world adaptability. - Evolvable Robot Hardware: Robots deployed with Axis models that autonomously evolve through continuous interaction, turning every deployment into a self-improving node within our RGI network. The Ultimate Vision We are building more than models; we are architecting the Distributed Machine Economy. A future where every dataset, model, and robotic embodiment is a verifiable asset in a global, autonomous network. Thank you for building the future of intelligence with us✌️📷show more

Nicely done. Not an easy task on rough and... uneven surface 😂show more

Some robots run fast. Some run like humans! And... honestly, the second kind is more interesting—like this: HONOR Yuanqi. From the perspective of embodied intelligence, "running like a human" is not just an aesthetic choice—it’s a functional milestone. That's where robotics starts to shift from performance… to understanding.show more

🤖 NVIDIA’s Gr00t N1.5 is now available in LeRobot!... This is the result of a great collaboration between the Hugging Face LeRobot team and NVIDIA Robotics ! Gr00t N1.5 highlights: 🦾 Cross-embodiment foundation model for robots 🧠 Multimodal inputs: vision, language, and proprioception 🪛Tested on the Libero benchmark and real-world hardware tasks 🌍Trained on real robot, synthetic, and internet-scale video data ⚙️ Flow matching action transformer for action predictionshow more

“A choice between hate and success. A choice between... vengeance and peace. But for me it’s not much of a choice is it? For me they are one and the same.” “I have to choose between hate and success. Between peace and vengeance. But then I was reminded, they’re one and the same”show more