Video wird geladen...

Video konnte nicht geladen werden

Zur Startseite

Robots are getting smarter, but most still fail the same way. They don’t learn from their own mistakes. A new paper proposes something different: a way for robots to self-improve directly from their failures in the real world. It’s called PLD (Probe, Learn, Distill). The idea: instead of collecting...

IlirAliu_'s profile picture

Ilir Aliu

54,306 subscribers

22,872 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten •via X (Twitter)

LIVE

Anya Rossi• Live Now

Private livecam show

0 Kommentare

Keine Kommentare verfügbar

Kommentare vom Original-Post werden hier angezeigt

Ähnliche Videos

What if robots could improve themselves by learning from their own failures in the real-world? Introducing 𝗣𝗟𝗗 (𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲, 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻, 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹) — a recipe that enables Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models to self-improve for high-precision manipulation tasks. PLD couples real-world residual reinforcement learning with standard supervised fine-tuning — letting robots discover, recover, and distill their own data flywheel. Quick 🧵
0:59

What if robots could improve themselves by learning from their own failures in the real-world? Introducing 𝗣𝗟𝗗 (𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗲, 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻, 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹) — a recipe that enables Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models to self-improve for high-precision manipulation tasks. PLD couples real-world residual reinforcement learning with standard supervised fine-tuning — letting robots discover, recover, and distill their own data flywheel. Quick 🧵

Wenli Xiao

185,486 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten

What if robots could learn real-world tasks from your perspective… without ever touching a robot? This is a system that trains robot policies using nothing but human-first, egocentric video data from smart glasses. No robots, no teleop, no sensors, just humans doing real tasks in the real world. Why it matters ✅ Learns robot policies from 20 minutes of human video; zero robot demos ✅ Generalizes to new objects, views, and even robot morphologies ✅ Uses 3D points for interpretable, spatially grounded learning ✅ Deploys directly to real-world robots with strong zero-shot success Thank you, Vincent Liu, for sharing!!! Learn more here: 🔗 Paper: 🌐 Website: 📍 BOOKMARK FOR LATER
0:30

What if robots could learn real-world tasks from your perspective… without ever touching a robot? This is a system that trains robot policies using nothing but human-first, egocentric video data from smart glasses. No robots, no teleop, no sensors, just humans doing real tasks in the real world. Why it matters ✅ Learns robot policies from 20 minutes of human video; zero robot demos ✅ Generalizes to new objects, views, and even robot morphologies ✅ Uses 3D points for interpretable, spatially grounded learning ✅ Deploys directly to real-world robots with strong zero-shot success Thank you, Vincent Liu, for sharing!!! Learn more here: 🔗 Paper: 🌐 Website: 📍 BOOKMARK FOR LATER

Ilir Aliu - eu/acc

10,509 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Robot policies must be both reliable and highly capable to be useful; the best way to achieve this level of performance is with reinforcement learning. However, for reinforcement learning you are usually stuck between two difficult options: reinforcement in the real world is often risky and expensive, while reinforcement learning in a traditional simulator takes a lot of engineering work and has a persistent sim-to-real gap. What if instead you could train your robot purely in a world model? RISE by Jiazhi Yang et al. uses a compositional world model to predict the future and evaluate progress. This allows for a self-improving pipeline, which learns a world model from real data and then learns how the robot should perform different tasks. This pipeline results in a data-driven way to improve policy performance from real data but without real-world reinforcement learning. Watch Episode #86 of RoboPapers, with Chris Paxton and Jiafei Duan, to learn more!
53:45

Robot policies must be both reliable and highly capable to be useful; the best way to achieve this level of performance is with reinforcement learning. However, for reinforcement learning you are usually stuck between two difficult options: reinforcement in the real world is often risky and expensive, while reinforcement learning in a traditional simulator takes a lot of engineering work and has a persistent sim-to-real gap. What if instead you could train your robot purely in a world model? RISE by Jiazhi Yang et al. uses a compositional world model to predict the future and evaluate progress. This allows for a self-improving pipeline, which learns a world model from real data and then learns how the robot should perform different tasks. This pipeline results in a data-driven way to improve policy performance from real data but without real-world reinforcement learning. Watch Episode #86 of RoboPapers, with Chris Paxton and Jiafei Duan, to learn more!

RoboPapers

38,334 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

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 on. The idea is very simple: Robots do useful work. They gather the real world data foundation models never see online. They fine tune their own model They go back out stronger A full loop. What they found in deployment: ✅ 2103 shelves scanned with multilingual, faded, occluded book spines ✅ 18.7 hours of librarian time saved ✅ Book ID accuracy jumped from 32.0 percent to 71.8 percent ✅ English OCR improved from 24.8 percent to 46.6 percent ✅ Chinese OCR improved from 30.8 percent to 38.0 percent The most interesting part is the shift. Robots do not only consume foundation models. They create the data these models are missing. A clean robot powered data flywheel. Work. Collect. Fine tune. Repeat. Thanks for sharing, Jenn Grannen! If you want the full write up: 📍Website: Paper: —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:
0:44

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 on. The idea is very simple: Robots do useful work. They gather the real world data foundation models never see online. They fine tune their own model They go back out stronger A full loop. What they found in deployment: ✅ 2103 shelves scanned with multilingual, faded, occluded book spines ✅ 18.7 hours of librarian time saved ✅ Book ID accuracy jumped from 32.0 percent to 71.8 percent ✅ English OCR improved from 24.8 percent to 46.6 percent ✅ Chinese OCR improved from 30.8 percent to 38.0 percent The most interesting part is the shift. Robots do not only consume foundation models. They create the data these models are missing. A clean robot powered data flywheel. Work. Collect. Fine tune. Repeat. Thanks for sharing, Jenn Grannen! If you want the full write up: 📍Website: Paper: —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:

Ilir Aliu

44,660 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

15–30 minutes of real-world robot data. That's now enough to go from sim-to-real failure to working robot. Let’s see… You train a robot in simulation. You deploy it in the real world. It fails. The physics don't match. So you try to fine-tune it with real data, but… you never have enough real data, and the fine-tuning breaks everything the simulation taught it. SimDist fixes this with one key decision: don't transfer the policy. Transfer the world model. Keep the reward and value knowledge from simulation frozen. Only update the part that's actually wrong, how the robot predicts physics. Now the robot doesn't have to relearn the entire task in the real world. It already knows what success looks like. It just needs to correct its understanding of how the real world moves. The part that makes this work: they also trained on failures and recoveries; not just perfect demonstrations. Without that, the planner finds the gaps and exploits them. With it, the robot can tell a good future from a bad one. That's all it needs. Results on peg insertion, table leg assembly, locomotion on slippery and uneven surfaces. Tasks that require precision, force, and quick reaction. Thanks for sharing, Tyler Westenbroek ([Tyler Westenbroek]. Interactive visualization + paper: ——- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:
0:41

15–30 minutes of real-world robot data. That's now enough to go from sim-to-real failure to working robot. Let’s see… You train a robot in simulation. You deploy it in the real world. It fails. The physics don't match. So you try to fine-tune it with real data, but… you never have enough real data, and the fine-tuning breaks everything the simulation taught it. SimDist fixes this with one key decision: don't transfer the policy. Transfer the world model. Keep the reward and value knowledge from simulation frozen. Only update the part that's actually wrong, how the robot predicts physics. Now the robot doesn't have to relearn the entire task in the real world. It already knows what success looks like. It just needs to correct its understanding of how the real world moves. The part that makes this work: they also trained on failures and recoveries; not just perfect demonstrations. Without that, the planner finds the gaps and exploits them. With it, the robot can tell a good future from a bad one. That's all it needs. Results on peg insertion, table leg assembly, locomotion on slippery and uneven surfaces. Tasks that require precision, force, and quick reaction. Thanks for sharing, Tyler Westenbroek ([Tyler Westenbroek]. Interactive visualization + paper: ——- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:

Ilir Aliu

14,214 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

What happens when robot world models learn from human experience at scale? 🤔 DreamDojo from NVIDIA Research is a generalist robot world model pretrained on 44K hours of egocentric human videos and then post-trained on robot data to generalize across new objects and environments. After distillation, it runs at 10 FPS for live teleoperation, policy evaluation, and model-based planning. Read the ICML paper to learn more 📄
0:32

What happens when robot world models learn from human experience at scale? 🤔 DreamDojo from NVIDIA Research is a generalist robot world model pretrained on 44K hours of egocentric human videos and then post-trained on robot data to generalize across new objects and environments. After distillation, it runs at 10 FPS for live teleoperation, policy evaluation, and model-based planning. Read the ICML paper to learn more 📄

NVIDIA Robotics

22,958 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Foundation models are enough to solve robotics! Unfortunately, this is not true. We keep hearing that Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models struggle because of the gap between static training and the dynamic real world. A German startup (Sereact) just released a solution that bridges this gap perfectly. They are introducing a new paradigm called Interactive RL Policy Patching. It's a distributed framework that allows robots to self-learn from human corrections without needing full retraining. When a robot fails, a human operator provides a brief "patch" or demonstration. The system then uses online off-policy reinforcement learning to update the behavior instantly. This is powered by a massive foundation model trained on hundreds of millions of interactions from over 100 deployed robot stations. The best part is the distributed parameter synchronization... When one robot learns a fix, the update is published fleet-wide... meaning the entire swarm gets smarter from a single human intervention. They are already proving this on complex manipulation tasks like shoe unboxing and screw sorting, drastically reducing the data needed to handle edge cases. Real-world environments are unforgiving, and I love seeing systems that can actually adapt on the fly! 📍 More info:
0:38

Foundation models are enough to solve robotics! Unfortunately, this is not true. We keep hearing that Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models struggle because of the gap between static training and the dynamic real world. A German startup (Sereact) just released a solution that bridges this gap perfectly. They are introducing a new paradigm called Interactive RL Policy Patching. It's a distributed framework that allows robots to self-learn from human corrections without needing full retraining. When a robot fails, a human operator provides a brief "patch" or demonstration. The system then uses online off-policy reinforcement learning to update the behavior instantly. This is powered by a massive foundation model trained on hundreds of millions of interactions from over 100 deployed robot stations. The best part is the distributed parameter synchronization... When one robot learns a fix, the update is published fleet-wide... meaning the entire swarm gets smarter from a single human intervention. They are already proving this on complex manipulation tasks like shoe unboxing and screw sorting, drastically reducing the data needed to handle edge cases. Real-world environments are unforgiving, and I love seeing systems that can actually adapt on the fly! 📍 More info:

Ilir Aliu

18,210 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

Teaching robots real dexterity has always been a challenge. But what if they could handle tools like a human? DexterityGen (DexGen) is a new system that helps robots use their hands better. It improves how they grip, move, and handle objects… from holding a pen to using a screwdriver. DexGen learns in simulation and refines its skills in the real world, making robotic hands much more useful. What makes DexGen special? ✅ Smarter movements that refine rough actions into precise skills ✅ Trained on a massive collection of dexterous tasks for better learning ✅ Better teleoperation that makes robotic hand control easier and safer ✅ Handles real-world challenges like small objects, tricky angles, and gravity This moves robots closer to real dexterity. It makes tool use more natural, improves stability, and brings robotic hands one step closer to human-level skill. Seen at Zhao-Heng Yin 🫶 Github: Paper:
1:52

Teaching robots real dexterity has always been a challenge. But what if they could handle tools like a human? DexterityGen (DexGen) is a new system that helps robots use their hands better. It improves how they grip, move, and handle objects… from holding a pen to using a screwdriver. DexGen learns in simulation and refines its skills in the real world, making robotic hands much more useful. What makes DexGen special? ✅ Smarter movements that refine rough actions into precise skills ✅ Trained on a massive collection of dexterous tasks for better learning ✅ Better teleoperation that makes robotic hand control easier and safer ✅ Handles real-world challenges like small objects, tricky angles, and gravity This moves robots closer to real dexterity. It makes tool use more natural, improves stability, and brings robotic hands one step closer to human-level skill. Seen at Zhao-Heng Yin 🫶 Github: Paper:

Ilir Aliu

51,490 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

🦾 From seeing to doing. We're closing the loop between video prediction and real-world action. On the final day of Robbyant Open Source Week, we bring you LingBot-VA—the world's first causal video-action world model for generalist robot control. 🔥 Key Highlights: 🤖 Predicts & Acts: A single model generates both future video and the actions to make it real. 🧠 Remembers the Past: True long-term memory for complex, sequential tasks. ⚡ Learns in a Snap: Masters new skills with just 30-50 real-world demos. The result? 📈 SOTA on RoboTwin (92.9%) and LIBERO (98.5%), +20% over π0.5 on challenging real-world long-horizon & high-precision tasks. More below 👇 #AI #Robotics #EmbodiedAI #WorldModel #OpenSource
6:10

🦾 From seeing to doing. We're closing the loop between video prediction and real-world action. On the final day of Robbyant Open Source Week, we bring you LingBot-VA—the world's first causal video-action world model for generalist robot control. 🔥 Key Highlights: 🤖 Predicts & Acts: A single model generates both future video and the actions to make it real. 🧠 Remembers the Past: True long-term memory for complex, sequential tasks. ⚡ Learns in a Snap: Masters new skills with just 30-50 real-world demos. The result? 📈 SOTA on RoboTwin (92.9%) and LIBERO (98.5%), +20% over π0.5 on challenging real-world long-horizon & high-precision tasks. More below 👇 #AI #Robotics #EmbodiedAI #WorldModel #OpenSource

Robbyant

704,157 Aufrufe • vor 6 Monaten

In order for robots to be deployed in the real world, performing tasks of real value, they must be reliable. Unfortunately, even more, most robotic demos work maybe 70-80% of the time at best. The way to get better reliability is to do real-world reinforcement learning: having the robot teach itself how to perform the task up to a high level of success. The key to doing this is to start with a core of expert human data, use that to train a policy then iteratively improve it, until finally finishing with on-policy reinforcement learning. Kun Lei talks through a unified framework for imitation and reinforcement learning based on PPO, which enables this improvement process. In this episode, Kun Lei explains the theory behind his reinforcement learning method and how it allowed his robot to run in a shopping mall juicing oranges for seven hours at a time, among experiments on a wide variety of tasks and embodiments. Watch episode 58 of RoboPapers now, hosted by Michael Cho - Rbt/Acc and Chris Paxton!
1:11:51

In order for robots to be deployed in the real world, performing tasks of real value, they must be reliable. Unfortunately, even more, most robotic demos work maybe 70-80% of the time at best. The way to get better reliability is to do real-world reinforcement learning: having the robot teach itself how to perform the task up to a high level of success. The key to doing this is to start with a core of expert human data, use that to train a policy then iteratively improve it, until finally finishing with on-policy reinforcement learning. Kun Lei talks through a unified framework for imitation and reinforcement learning based on PPO, which enables this improvement process. In this episode, Kun Lei explains the theory behind his reinforcement learning method and how it allowed his robot to run in a shopping mall juicing oranges for seven hours at a time, among experiments on a wide variety of tasks and embodiments. Watch episode 58 of RoboPapers now, hosted by Michael Cho - Rbt/Acc and Chris Paxton!

RoboPapers

18,813 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

Robots can already fold laundry, make espresso, clean kitchens, and assemble things. The harder problem is getting them to do those tasks reliably, for long periods of time, without a human babysitting them. At Startup School 2026, Physical Intelligence cofounder Chelsea Finn explains what it takes to build general-purpose robots that work in the real world. She shares how reinforcement learning pushed robot throughput up 2x, how their systems can run autonomously for hours, and why she believes robotics is entering its GPT era: moving from specialized models toward general-purpose systems that can work across tasks, robots, and environments. 00:00 — The State of Physical Intelligence 01:23 — What It Takes to Make Robots Useful 05:11 — The Reliability Problem 07:43 — Reinforcement Learning for Robotics 09:35 — Learning From Failures 12:43 — Training Robots to Improve Themselves 14:21 — Can a Robot Work for 13 Hours Straight? 17:36 — Why Robots Need Memory 21:22 — Building a General-Purpose Robot 25:02 — From Fine-Tuning to Out-of-the-Box Models 27:35 — Training on All the Data 30:20 — One Model That Beats the Specialists 31:21 — Compositional Generalization 37:49 — The GPT Era of Robotics 39:49 — Q&A
58:17

Robots can already fold laundry, make espresso, clean kitchens, and assemble things. The harder problem is getting them to do those tasks reliably, for long periods of time, without a human babysitting them. At Startup School 2026, Physical Intelligence cofounder Chelsea Finn explains what it takes to build general-purpose robots that work in the real world. She shares how reinforcement learning pushed robot throughput up 2x, how their systems can run autonomously for hours, and why she believes robotics is entering its GPT era: moving from specialized models toward general-purpose systems that can work across tasks, robots, and environments. 00:00 — The State of Physical Intelligence 01:23 — What It Takes to Make Robots Useful 05:11 — The Reliability Problem 07:43 — Reinforcement Learning for Robotics 09:35 — Learning From Failures 12:43 — Training Robots to Improve Themselves 14:21 — Can a Robot Work for 13 Hours Straight? 17:36 — Why Robots Need Memory 21:22 — Building a General-Purpose Robot 25:02 — From Fine-Tuning to Out-of-the-Box Models 27:35 — Training on All the Data 30:20 — One Model That Beats the Specialists 31:21 — Compositional Generalization 37:49 — The GPT Era of Robotics 39:49 — Q&A

Y Combinator

105,935 Aufrufe • vor 12 Tagen

A robot that sees the terrain and predicts its own future… up to 5 seconds ahead? This is real. ❗️Best Systems Paper finalist at #RSS2025 The team introduces a perceptive Forward Dynamics Model that helps legged robots safely navigate rough, complex environments: no manual tuning no rigid-body limits. Why this matters ✅ Predicts future robot states using both perception and proprioception ✅ Trained on years of sim + real data for strong sim-to-real performance ✅ Enables zero-shot navigation with minimal cost tuning ✅ Boosts success rates and safety on rough terrain like never before This isn’t just another planner, it’s a big step toward robust, adaptable locomotion. Paper: Project website:
0:26

A robot that sees the terrain and predicts its own future… up to 5 seconds ahead? This is real. ❗️Best Systems Paper finalist at #RSS2025 The team introduces a perceptive Forward Dynamics Model that helps legged robots safely navigate rough, complex environments: no manual tuning no rigid-body limits. Why this matters ✅ Predicts future robot states using both perception and proprioception ✅ Trained on years of sim + real data for strong sim-to-real performance ✅ Enables zero-shot navigation with minimal cost tuning ✅ Boosts success rates and safety on rough terrain like never before This isn’t just another planner, it’s a big step toward robust, adaptable locomotion. Paper: Project website:

Ilir Aliu

43,990 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

Turning video into humanoid robot motion! 🤳🏼 Training humanoid robots needs huge amounts of motion data, but real-world capture doesn’t scale. Mocap is expensive, dangerous edge cases are rare, and you can’t ask humans to repeatedly fall or crash. Video2Robot tackles this by converting videos into physics-grounded humanoid simulations. Motion is generated to respect balance, inertia, ground contact, and joint limits, then directly retargeted to robot simulators. One prompt can generate a full humanoid motion sequence, including multi-agent interactions and failure cases like falls or collisions, scenarios that are hard or impossible to capture safely in the real world. The pipeline is model-agnostic and works with existing video generators, making it a practical way to scale data for robots. If robots are going to operate in the real world, they need to be trained on the failures too, not just the perfect demos. Here's the GitHub: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
0:26

Turning video into humanoid robot motion! 🤳🏼 Training humanoid robots needs huge amounts of motion data, but real-world capture doesn’t scale. Mocap is expensive, dangerous edge cases are rare, and you can’t ask humans to repeatedly fall or crash. Video2Robot tackles this by converting videos into physics-grounded humanoid simulations. Motion is generated to respect balance, inertia, ground contact, and joint limits, then directly retargeted to robot simulators. One prompt can generate a full humanoid motion sequence, including multi-agent interactions and failure cases like falls or collisions, scenarios that are hard or impossible to capture safely in the real world. The pipeline is model-agnostic and works with existing video generators, making it a practical way to scale data for robots. If robots are going to operate in the real world, they need to be trained on the failures too, not just the perfect demos. Here's the GitHub: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

59,835 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

🔥 JUST IN: Open-source robotics dataset from 100% real-world scenarios! 🤯 Chinese robotics company AGIBOT just released AGIBOT WORLD 2026, an open-source dataset systematically covering key embodied AI research directions. Built entirely from real-world environments: commercial spaces, and homes. Collected using AGIBOT G2 robots in free-form collection mode, providing structured, accurately annotated, high-quality data. Digital twin technology creates 1:1 scale replicas in simulation matching the real environments. Both real-world and simulation data are open-sourced. The AGIBOT G2 platform collects multiple data types simultaneously: RGB(D) cameras, tactile sensors, force sensors, LiDAR, IMU, and full-body joint states. Whole-body control coordinates arms, waist, and hands for complex tasks. First-person teleoperation lets operators control the robot from its perspective. The tasks covered are fine-grained manipulation, ultra-long-horizon tasks, spatial navigation, dual-arm coordination, and multi-agent/human-robot collaboration. The dataset includes error-recovery trajectories with annotations. Most datasets only show successful demonstrations. AGIBOT includes failures and how the robot recovers, teaching models how to handle mistakes. After collection, data is tested through policy training and real-robot deployment to ensure quality. Then processed through industrial quality control with multiple screening and cleaning rounds. Making it open-source accelerates embodied AI research by giving researchers access to high-quality real-world robot data at scale. 🇨🇳 Learn more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
0:26

🔥 JUST IN: Open-source robotics dataset from 100% real-world scenarios! 🤯 Chinese robotics company AGIBOT just released AGIBOT WORLD 2026, an open-source dataset systematically covering key embodied AI research directions. Built entirely from real-world environments: commercial spaces, and homes. Collected using AGIBOT G2 robots in free-form collection mode, providing structured, accurately annotated, high-quality data. Digital twin technology creates 1:1 scale replicas in simulation matching the real environments. Both real-world and simulation data are open-sourced. The AGIBOT G2 platform collects multiple data types simultaneously: RGB(D) cameras, tactile sensors, force sensors, LiDAR, IMU, and full-body joint states. Whole-body control coordinates arms, waist, and hands for complex tasks. First-person teleoperation lets operators control the robot from its perspective. The tasks covered are fine-grained manipulation, ultra-long-horizon tasks, spatial navigation, dual-arm coordination, and multi-agent/human-robot collaboration. The dataset includes error-recovery trajectories with annotations. Most datasets only show successful demonstrations. AGIBOT includes failures and how the robot recovers, teaching models how to handle mistakes. After collection, data is tested through policy training and real-robot deployment to ensure quality. Then processed through industrial quality control with multiple screening and cleaning rounds. Making it open-source accelerates embodied AI research by giving researchers access to high-quality real-world robot data at scale. 🇨🇳 Learn more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

40,583 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

We might be solving the wrong problem in robotics. That’s what this makes clear. UMI → Universal Manipulation Interface A simple $400 gripper that lets you teach robots by demonstration. You hold it like a tool. Show the task. The robot learns. No teleoperation. No expensive hardware. No robot-specific data. Stanford open-sourced everything → hardware, code, datasets. What stands out to me is the bottleneck. Not algorithms. Data. Teleoperation → ~35 demos/hour UMI → ~111 demos/hour And the data transfers across robots → UR5, Franka, others. The design is surprisingly practical: → GoPro fisheye lens (155° FOV) + mirrors for depth → SLAM + IMU for precise 6DoF tracking → latency matching for dynamic tasks → diffusion policies for multimodal actions Then it scales. Cheng Chi takes this further with Sunday Robotics (with Tony Zhao). A $200 glove → deployed in 500+ homes → ~10 million real-world interactions. Not lab data. Real human behavior. Their robot learns dishes, laundry, espresso → with zero robot-specific data. This is where the shift becomes obvious. From training robots in controlled environments → to learning directly from humans at scale So here’s the real question: Will robotics be unlocked by better models… or by unlocking data? #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #AI #Innovation #FutureOfWork
0:20

We might be solving the wrong problem in robotics. That’s what this makes clear. UMI → Universal Manipulation Interface A simple $400 gripper that lets you teach robots by demonstration. You hold it like a tool. Show the task. The robot learns. No teleoperation. No expensive hardware. No robot-specific data. Stanford open-sourced everything → hardware, code, datasets. What stands out to me is the bottleneck. Not algorithms. Data. Teleoperation → ~35 demos/hour UMI → ~111 demos/hour And the data transfers across robots → UR5, Franka, others. The design is surprisingly practical: → GoPro fisheye lens (155° FOV) + mirrors for depth → SLAM + IMU for precise 6DoF tracking → latency matching for dynamic tasks → diffusion policies for multimodal actions Then it scales. Cheng Chi takes this further with Sunday Robotics (with Tony Zhao). A $200 glove → deployed in 500+ homes → ~10 million real-world interactions. Not lab data. Real human behavior. Their robot learns dishes, laundry, espresso → with zero robot-specific data. This is where the shift becomes obvious. From training robots in controlled environments → to learning directly from humans at scale So here’s the real question: Will robotics be unlocked by better models… or by unlocking data? #ArtificialIntelligence #Robotics #AI #Innovation #FutureOfWork

Pascal Bornet

186,670 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten