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A simple idea. Let robots collect the data that current foundation models are missing. A robot that gets better by doing real work in the real world. For two weeks in the Stanford East Asia Library, Scanford scanned shelves, helped librarians, and improved the vision language model it depends...

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I don’t know if we live in a Matrix, but I know for sure that robots will spend most of their lives in simulation. Let machines train machines. I’m excited to introduce DexMimicGen, a massive-scale synthetic data generator that enables a humanoid robot to learn complex skills from only a handful of human demonstrations. Yes, as few as 5! DexMimicGen addresses the biggest pain point in robotics: where do we get data? Unlike with LLMs, where vast amounts of texts are readily available, you cannot simply download motor control signals from the internet. So researchers teleoperate the robots to collect motion data via XR headsets. They have to repeat the same skill over and over and over again, because neural nets are data hungry. This is a very slow and uncomfortable process. At NVIDIA, we believe the majority of high-quality tokens for robot foundation models will come from simulation. What DexMimicGen does is to trade GPU compute time for human time. It takes one motion trajectory from human, and multiplies into 1000s of new trajectories. A robot brain trained on this augmented dataset will generalize far better in the real world. Think of DexMimicGen as a learning signal amplifier. It maps a small dataset to a large (de facto infinite) dataset, using physics simulation in the loop. In this way, we free humans from babysitting the bots all day. The future of robot data is generative. The future of the entire robot learning pipeline will also be generative. 🧵

Jim Fan

165,246 views • 1 year ago

Robot trained entirely in simulation! 🤯 Sudo AI just released #sudo R1. This could be the moment the data bottleneck in robotics finally breaks, a major step forward for getting simulation-trained robots to actually work in the real world. #sudo R1 is a manipulation foundation model that reliably picks objects it has never seen: glass, fabric, metal, irregular shapes. All with zero real-world training data. No tele-op. No demos. No manual labeling. Pure simulation. And picking isn't just any skill, it's the foundation. Almost everything we want robots to do starts with being able to reliably pick something up. Data collection is the bottleneck holding the whole field back. Every new task means hours of tele-op and armies of labelers. If simulation alone can actually deliver production-grade picking, that bottleneck starts to disappear. Really exciting to see! If the results hold, the path to general-purpose robots just got a whole lot shorter. 👇 Read more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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Robot trained entirely in simulation! 🤯 Sudo AI just released #sudo R1. This could be the moment the data bottleneck in robotics finally breaks, a major step forward for getting simulation-trained robots to actually work in the real world. #sudo R1 is a manipulation foundation model that reliably picks objects it has never seen: glass, fabric, metal, irregular shapes. All with zero real-world training data. No tele-op. No demos. No manual labeling. Pure simulation. And picking isn't just any skill, it's the foundation. Almost everything we want robots to do starts with being able to reliably pick something up. Data collection is the bottleneck holding the whole field back. Every new task means hours of tele-op and armies of labelers. If simulation alone can actually deliver production-grade picking, that bottleneck starts to disappear. Really exciting to see! If the results hold, the path to general-purpose robots just got a whole lot shorter. 👇 Read more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

25,901 views • 3 months ago

Better data for robot hands! 🤲🏼 Embodied reasoning is the bottleneck now. It’s the data we are missing. Specifically, understanding what the robot's hands are doing throughout a task. Perceptron AI new Egocentric offering tracks both hands through an entire video instead of guessing from sampled frames. That matters because a lot happens between frames. Hand positions shift. Contacts change. The robot adjusts grip. You miss all that if you're sampling. 0.280 semantic end-to-end F1 score on WGO-Bench vs 0.158 from the best pipelines built on Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6. Training a robot to manipulate objects requires understanding every moment of hand-object interaction. If your training data has gaps: missing frames, missed contacts, unclear hand positions, the policy learns from incomplete information. You end up with robots that work in demos but fail in real tasks. Continuous hand tracking gives you the full picture. The policy learns from cleaner, more complete data. That compounds into better real-world performance. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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Lukas Ziegler

18,261 views • 21 days ago

What if your personal data became an asset you actually owned? In this May 2026 AMA, Matrix AI Network explores one of the most important questions facing AI, Web3, and the future digital economy: Who owns the data that powers artificial intelligence? As AI models continue to improve, the next major bottleneck is no longer computing power—it is access to high-quality, verified human data. The discussion covers how personal biodata can become a valuable digital asset, how data quality is measured, and why future AI companies may depend directly on users as data providers. Topics include: ✅ Biodata as a new asset class ✅ AI-grade data quality scoring ✅ Wearable devices for raw data ✅ Data ownership and monetization models ✅ Preventing fake data and device spoofing ✅ Real-world applications in healthcare, sports science and mental wellness ✅ Hypnus and the future biodata ecosystem ✅ Project direction The future may not belong to companies that own data. It belongs to the people who create it. Watch now 👇 #AI #Web3 #DataOwnership
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What if your personal data became an asset you actually owned? In this May 2026 AMA, Matrix AI Network explores one of the most important questions facing AI, Web3, and the future digital economy: Who owns the data that powers artificial intelligence? As AI models continue to improve, the next major bottleneck is no longer computing power—it is access to high-quality, verified human data. The discussion covers how personal biodata can become a valuable digital asset, how data quality is measured, and why future AI companies may depend directly on users as data providers. Topics include: ✅ Biodata as a new asset class ✅ AI-grade data quality scoring ✅ Wearable devices for raw data ✅ Data ownership and monetization models ✅ Preventing fake data and device spoofing ✅ Real-world applications in healthcare, sports science and mental wellness ✅ Hypnus and the future biodata ecosystem ✅ Project direction The future may not belong to companies that own data. It belongs to the people who create it. Watch now 👇 #AI #Web3 #DataOwnership

Matrix AI Network

60,855 views • 1 month ago

The 1 percent rule of social media goes like this: 1 percent of people create new content, 9 percent engage with it—likes, comments, shares—and the other 90 percent just lurk. They scroll, they watch, but you’d never know they’re there. Most people don’t post much. The only people who post all the time are the ones who make a living online—or want to. And the stuff that gets shared the most is almost never normal. No one’s going viral for being reasonable or predictable. What spreads is whatever’s angry, extreme, ridiculous—anything that gets a reaction. So when you’re scrolling, just remember: you’re not seeing real life. You’re seeing a distorted feed from a tiny group of loud people who spend all day online.
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The 1 percent rule of social media goes like this: 1 percent of people create new content, 9 percent engage with it—likes, comments, shares—and the other 90 percent just lurk. They scroll, they watch, but you’d never know they’re there. Most people don’t post much. The only people who post all the time are the ones who make a living online—or want to. And the stuff that gets shared the most is almost never normal. No one’s going viral for being reasonable or predictable. What spreads is whatever’s angry, extreme, ridiculous—anything that gets a reaction. So when you’re scrolling, just remember: you’re not seeing real life. You’re seeing a distorted feed from a tiny group of loud people who spend all day online.

Rob Henderson

76,992 views • 1 year ago

Are you kidding me??? It grasps multiple objects with different ways, all at once with… a single hand??? No pauses. 1x speed. GENE-26.5 is Genesis AI’s robotics-native multimodal foundation model. It’s trained on 200,000+ hours of real human hand data (motion, force, touch) and runs on a 54-DoF bimanual system: Scaling that human data 4x lifted real-robot success rates from 16.6% to 65.6% on long-horizon dexterous tasks!! Same model weights, zero fine-tuning for this exact sequence. You know those tiny coordinated movements you do without thinking…? Robots couldn’t reliably do that before. Now they can. Today. This is the video you’ll send to my friends, outside of our bubble, when they say “robots are still just demos.” Congrats to the entire team around Zhou Xian! Credit: Seen at Zu Wang (Zu Wang) Genesis official announcement for the full story + longer demo: ——— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:
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Are you kidding me??? It grasps multiple objects with different ways, all at once with… a single hand??? No pauses. 1x speed. GENE-26.5 is Genesis AI’s robotics-native multimodal foundation model. It’s trained on 200,000+ hours of real human hand data (motion, force, touch) and runs on a 54-DoF bimanual system: Scaling that human data 4x lifted real-robot success rates from 16.6% to 65.6% on long-horizon dexterous tasks!! Same model weights, zero fine-tuning for this exact sequence. You know those tiny coordinated movements you do without thinking…? Robots couldn’t reliably do that before. Now they can. Today. This is the video you’ll send to my friends, outside of our bubble, when they say “robots are still just demos.” Congrats to the entire team around Zhou Xian! Credit: Seen at Zu Wang (Zu Wang) Genesis official announcement for the full story + longer demo: ——— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:

Ilir Aliu

204,299 views • 2 months ago

Not the flashiest demos, but what’s under the hood represents a foundational shift for general-purpose robotics. World models are the next-gen foundation of Physical AI, not the VLM backbones found in typical VLAs. DreamZero is a 14B-parameter World Action Model (WAM) by NVIDIA that treats robotics as a joint video-and-action prediction task. Unlike traditional Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that map images directly to motor commands, DreamZero leverages a pretrained video diffusion backbone to predict future world states and actions simultaneously. - achieves 2× better zero-shot generalization to unseen tasks and environments compared to state-of-the-art VLAs. - learns effectively from heterogeneous, non-repetitive data (500 hours), breaking the need for thousands of repeated demonstrations. - adapts to new robot embodiments with just 30 minutes of play data. - enables 7Hz closed-loop control via system optimizations and "DreamZero-Flash," making high-capacity diffusion models viable for real-time use.
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Not the flashiest demos, but what’s under the hood represents a foundational shift for general-purpose robotics. World models are the next-gen foundation of Physical AI, not the VLM backbones found in typical VLAs. DreamZero is a 14B-parameter World Action Model (WAM) by NVIDIA that treats robotics as a joint video-and-action prediction task. Unlike traditional Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that map images directly to motor commands, DreamZero leverages a pretrained video diffusion backbone to predict future world states and actions simultaneously. - achieves 2× better zero-shot generalization to unseen tasks and environments compared to state-of-the-art VLAs. - learns effectively from heterogeneous, non-repetitive data (500 hours), breaking the need for thousands of repeated demonstrations. - adapts to new robot embodiments with just 30 minutes of play data. - enables 7Hz closed-loop control via system optimizations and "DreamZero-Flash," making high-capacity diffusion models viable for real-time use.

The Humanoid Hub

35,204 views • 5 months ago

Alex Karp went on TV and said his enterprise customers are done letting AI companies quietly steal the alpha out of their business, and the CEO of Together AI explained on CNBC exactly how that theft works. Karp said his customers are livid. They feel they pay for tokens that create nothing while handing over the secret sauce of their own company. Then Vipul Ved Prakash laid out the mechanism. Every time you send your data to a company with very smart models, you hand them the recipe to rebuild what you do. Your data is the thing that makes you money. And you are pushing it straight into a competitor's system. The smarter the models get, the more they learn from what you feed them. This is why companies are moving to open models, and it was never really about price. You can download an open model, run it inside your own walls, and never let your data leave the building. It scores 81 against the top closed model's 85, and runs up to sixty times cheaper. Half the Fortune 500 is already running open models from Hugging Face. The story was that the labs win because they own the best models. The companies paying them just realized they owned the best data the whole time.
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Alex Karp went on TV and said his enterprise customers are done letting AI companies quietly steal the alpha out of their business, and the CEO of Together AI explained on CNBC exactly how that theft works. Karp said his customers are livid. They feel they pay for tokens that create nothing while handing over the secret sauce of their own company. Then Vipul Ved Prakash laid out the mechanism. Every time you send your data to a company with very smart models, you hand them the recipe to rebuild what you do. Your data is the thing that makes you money. And you are pushing it straight into a competitor's system. The smarter the models get, the more they learn from what you feed them. This is why companies are moving to open models, and it was never really about price. You can download an open model, run it inside your own walls, and never let your data leave the building. It scores 81 against the top closed model's 85, and runs up to sixty times cheaper. Half the Fortune 500 is already running open models from Hugging Face. The story was that the labs win because they own the best models. The companies paying them just realized they owned the best data the whole time.

Ihtesham Ali

17,433 views • 27 days ago