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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... show more

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The problem with humanoid teleoperation is that it is expensive and difficult to scale Enter NVIDIA's EgoScale: - A VLA model pretrained on thousands hours of egocentric human videos. - Mid-trained via 50 hours of human + 4 hours of robot "play" data for human-robot alignment. - Fine-tuned with very few examples of task-specific robot teleoperation (100 or fewer per task). - Successfully transfers across 5-finger (Sharpa) and 3-finger (Unitree G1) robot hands. - Performance scales predictably as data increases.

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The Humanoid Hub

44,441 views • 4 months ago

An interactive world model developed by NVIDIA in collaboration with academic partners. - DreamDojo turns egocentric human video data into physical intelligence. - Human data is more scalable than robotics data but lacks action labels. - To solve this, a dedicated action model extracts latent actions by identifying physics and motion deltas between frames. Training - A massive 44k hours of video data are used for pre-training. - Post-training on small-scale robot datasets maps human physics to specific robot embodiments. - An additional distillation stage converts the model into an autoregressive, few-step diffusion model, enabling real-time, action-controllable simulation. Primary Use Cases - Live Teleoperation: Controlling a robot inside a world simulation in real-time. - Model-based Planning: Previewing and curating the best actions for improved success. - Policy Evaluation: Testing robot policies in realistic, out-of-distribution scenarios. Everything that's open-sourced: weights, code, post-training dataset, eval set, and details to reproduce.

An interactive world model developed by NVIDIA in collaboration with academic partners. - DreamDojo turns egocentric human video data into physical intelligence. - Human data is more scalable than robotics data but lacks action labels. - To solve this, a dedicated action model extracts latent actions by identifying physics and motion deltas between frames. Training - A massive 44k hours of video data are used for pre-training. - Post-training on small-scale robot datasets maps human physics to specific robot embodiments. - An additional distillation stage converts the model into an autoregressive, few-step diffusion model, enabling real-time, action-controllable simulation. Primary Use Cases - Live Teleoperation: Controlling a robot inside a world simulation in real-time. - Model-based Planning: Previewing and curating the best actions for improved success. - Policy Evaluation: Testing robot policies in realistic, out-of-distribution scenarios. Everything that's open-sourced: weights, code, post-training dataset, eval set, and details to reproduce.

The Humanoid Hub

11,575 views • 4 months ago

Testing robot policies on hardware is slow, expensive and hard to scale. World models offer a promising path to accelerating robot policy development. We're sharing new research from the Runway Robotics team, in which we simulated 8 robot policies inside our General World Model and found 0.95 correlation with real-world results. Those early results point to world model simulation as a practical substitute for hardware evaluation, comparing favorably to existing real-to-sim approaches. Learn more at the link below.

Testing robot policies on hardware is slow, expensive and hard to scale. World models offer a promising path to accelerating robot policy development. We're sharing new research from the Runway Robotics team, in which we simulated 8 robot policies inside our General World Model and found 0.95 correlation with real-world results. Those early results point to world model simulation as a practical substitute for hardware evaluation, comparing favorably to existing real-to-sim approaches. Learn more at the link below.

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13,464 views • 4 months ago

A humanoid robot policy trained solely on synthetic data generated by a world model. Research Scientist Joel Jang presents NVIDIA's DreamGen pipeline: ⦿ Post-train the world model Cosmos-Predict2 with a small set of real teleoperation demos. ⦿ Prompt the world model to generate synthetic video data with verbs and scenarios not used in the world model’s post-training. ⦿ Auto-label synthetic video data with action sequences. ⦿ Train robot policies using only synthetic data. That's it. Deploy zero-shot to a real humanoid robot.

A humanoid robot policy trained solely on synthetic data generated by a world model. Research Scientist Joel Jang presents NVIDIA's DreamGen pipeline: ⦿ Post-train the world model Cosmos-Predict2 with a small set of real teleoperation demos. ⦿ Prompt the world model to generate synthetic video data with verbs and scenarios not used in the world model’s post-training. ⦿ Auto-label synthetic video data with action sequences. ⦿ Train robot policies using only synthetic data. That's it. Deploy zero-shot to a real humanoid robot.

The Humanoid Hub

20,968 views • 11 months ago

Excited to release τ0-WM: an open-source unified video-action world model for robotic manipulation. It's a 5B-parameter robotic foundation model trained on 27.3K hours of real-robot teleoperation, UMI-style demonstrations, and egocentric interaction videos.

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Jianlan Luo

63,226 views • 1 month ago

1/ 🧠Humans are the best robot data source! 2/ 👓Human egocentric video is rich in quantity, but poor in quality. 3/ Beyond scaling data, smarter representation and architecture matter just as much. 4/ Want an open-source framework to train your own learn-from-human-data robot policy? 🚀We introduce HumanEgo: Zero-Shot Robot Learning from Minutes of Human Egocentric Videos⬇️ ✦ Zero-Shot Human-to-Robot Transfer ✦ Robot-Data-Free ✦ Just 30 min of data per task ✦ Collect by Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere ✦ Deploy on Any Robot, Any Camera, Any Environment ✦ Open-Source & Easy-to-Implement Let's squeeze every bit of signal out of human data! 🌐 Website: 📄 Paper: 💻 Code: 📹 Video: 🧵 1/n

1/ 🧠Humans are the best robot data source! 2/ 👓Human egocentric video is rich in quantity, but poor in quality. 3/ Beyond scaling data, smarter representation and architecture matter just as much. 4/ Want an open-source framework to train your own learn-from-human-data robot policy? 🚀We introduce HumanEgo: Zero-Shot Robot Learning from Minutes of Human Egocentric Videos⬇️ ✦ Zero-Shot Human-to-Robot Transfer ✦ Robot-Data-Free ✦ Just 30 min of data per task ✦ Collect by Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere ✦ Deploy on Any Robot, Any Camera, Any Environment ✦ Open-Source & Easy-to-Implement Let's squeeze every bit of signal out of human data! 🌐 Website: 📄 Paper: 💻 Code: 📹 Video: 🧵 1/n

Zhi (Leo) Wang

109,104 views • 1 month ago

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

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Zubair Irshad

12,202 views • 11 months ago

Announcing DreamDojo: our open-source, interactive world model that takes robot motor controls and generates the future in pixels. No engine, no meshes, no hand-authored dynamics. It's Simulation 2.0. Time for robotics to take the bitter lesson pill. Real-world robot learning is bottlenecked by time, wear, safety, and resets. If we want Physical AI to move at pretraining speed, we need a simulator that adapts to pretraining scale with as little human engineering as possible. Our key insights: (1) human egocentric videos are a scalable source of first-person physics; (2) latent actions make them "robot-readable" across different hardware; (3) real-time inference unlocks live teleop, policy eval, and test-time planning *inside* a dream. We pre-train on 44K hours of human videos: cheap, abundant, and collected with zero robot-in-the-loop. Humans have already explored the combinatorics: we grasp, pour, fold, assemble, fail, retry—across cluttered scenes, shifting viewpoints, changing light, and hour-long task chains—at a scale no robot fleet could match. The missing piece: these videos have no action labels. So we introduce latent actions: a unified representation inferred directly from videos that captures "what changed between world states" without knowing the underlying hardware. This lets us train on any first-person video as if it came with motor commands attached. As a result, DreamDojo generalizes zero-shot to objects and environments never seen in any robot training set, because humans saw them first. Next, we post-train onto each robot to fit its specific hardware. Think of it as separating "how the world looks and behaves" from "how this particular robot actuates." The base model follows the general physical rules, then "snaps onto" the robot's unique mechanics. It's kind of like loading a new character and scene assets into Unreal Engine, but done through gradient descent and generalizes far beyond the post-training dataset. A world simulator is only useful if it runs fast enough to close the loop. We train a real-time version of DreamDojo that runs at 10 FPS, stable for over a minute of continuous rollout. This unlocks exciting possibilities: - Live teleoperation *inside* a dream. Connect a VR controller, stream actions into DreamDojo, and teleop a virtual robot in real time. We demo this on Unitree G1 with a PICO headset and one RTX 5090. - Policy evaluation. You can benchmark a policy checkpoint in DreamDojo instead of the real world. The simulated success rates strongly correlate with real-world results - accurate enough to rank checkpoints without burning a single motor. - Model-based planning. Sample multiple action proposals → simulate them all in parallel → pick the best future. Gains +17% real-world success out of the box on a fruit packing task. We open-source everything!! Weights, code, post-training dataset, eval set, and whitepaper with tons of details to reproduce. DreamDojo is based on NVIDIA Cosmos, which is open-weight too. 2026 is the year of World Models for physical AI. We want you to build with us. Happy scaling! Links in thread:

Announcing DreamDojo: our open-source, interactive world model that takes robot motor controls and generates the future in pixels. No engine, no meshes, no hand-authored dynamics. It's Simulation 2.0. Time for robotics to take the bitter lesson pill. Real-world robot learning is bottlenecked by time, wear, safety, and resets. If we want Physical AI to move at pretraining speed, we need a simulator that adapts to pretraining scale with as little human engineering as possible. Our key insights: (1) human egocentric videos are a scalable source of first-person physics; (2) latent actions make them "robot-readable" across different hardware; (3) real-time inference unlocks live teleop, policy eval, and test-time planning inside a dream. We pre-train on 44K hours of human videos: cheap, abundant, and collected with zero robot-in-the-loop. Humans have already explored the combinatorics: we grasp, pour, fold, assemble, fail, retry—across cluttered scenes, shifting viewpoints, changing light, and hour-long task chains—at a scale no robot fleet could match. The missing piece: these videos have no action labels. So we introduce latent actions: a unified representation inferred directly from videos that captures "what changed between world states" without knowing the underlying hardware. This lets us train on any first-person video as if it came with motor commands attached. As a result, DreamDojo generalizes zero-shot to objects and environments never seen in any robot training set, because humans saw them first. Next, we post-train onto each robot to fit its specific hardware. Think of it as separating "how the world looks and behaves" from "how this particular robot actuates." The base model follows the general physical rules, then "snaps onto" the robot's unique mechanics. It's kind of like loading a new character and scene assets into Unreal Engine, but done through gradient descent and generalizes far beyond the post-training dataset. A world simulator is only useful if it runs fast enough to close the loop. We train a real-time version of DreamDojo that runs at 10 FPS, stable for over a minute of continuous rollout. This unlocks exciting possibilities: - Live teleoperation inside a dream. Connect a VR controller, stream actions into DreamDojo, and teleop a virtual robot in real time. We demo this on Unitree G1 with a PICO headset and one RTX 5090. - Policy evaluation. You can benchmark a policy checkpoint in DreamDojo instead of the real world. The simulated success rates strongly correlate with real-world results - accurate enough to rank checkpoints without burning a single motor. - Model-based planning. Sample multiple action proposals → simulate them all in parallel → pick the best future. Gains +17% real-world success out of the box on a fruit packing task. We open-source everything!! Weights, code, post-training dataset, eval set, and whitepaper with tons of details to reproduce. DreamDojo is based on NVIDIA Cosmos, which is open-weight too. 2026 is the year of World Models for physical AI. We want you to build with us. Happy scaling! Links in thread:

Jim Fan

221,486 views • 4 months ago

The World Model as NEO's Cognitive Core 1X has revealed a major AI development where the NEO humanoid can translate any natural language prompt into robotic action. It demonstrates this capability even for novel tasks, objects, and environments not found in its robot dataset. - the 1X World Model is trained on internet-scale human interaction videos and fine-tuned with robot data to ground its understanding in physics and in NEO's embodiment - from a simple voice or text prompt, the world model generates a visualization of future actions - a built-in inverse dynamics model then translates these into precise motor movements for NEO

The World Model as NEO's Cognitive Core 1X has revealed a major AI development where the NEO humanoid can translate any natural language prompt into robotic action. It demonstrates this capability even for novel tasks, objects, and environments not found in its robot dataset. - the 1X World Model is trained on internet-scale human interaction videos and fine-tuned with robot data to ground its understanding in physics and in NEO's embodiment - from a simple voice or text prompt, the world model generates a visualization of future actions - a built-in inverse dynamics model then translates these into precise motor movements for NEO

The Humanoid Hub

68,453 views • 5 months ago

Mecka is excited to power EgoVerse: a growing ecosystem for robot learning from egocentric human data Proven across 4 leading research labs, EgoVerse data consistently boosts robot performance We release the tools for anyone to collect data, inference/train, and contribute! 🧵

Mecka is excited to power EgoVerse: a growing ecosystem for robot learning from egocentric human data Proven across 4 leading research labs, EgoVerse data consistently boosts robot performance We release the tools for anyone to collect data, inference/train, and contribute! 🧵

Josh

102,836 views • 3 months ago

NVIDIA just announced EgoScale 🤖🧠 NVIDIA Research has uncovered a log-linear scaling law for robot dexterity by pretraining VLA models on over 20,000 hours of egocentric human video This massive dataset is 20 times larger than previous efforts and proves that robot intelligence follows a predictable path: the more human data, the lower the loss The secret is a simple recipe combining large-scale human pretraining with a small amount of aligned human-robot mid-training to bridge the gap In testing, this method boosted the average success rate by 54% on a 22-DoF robotic hand compared to policies built without pretraining EgoScale also enables one-shot task adaptation and works across different hardware, suggesting that human motion is a universal motor prior for robots Website: Paper: Source: NVIDIA Research #Robot #Humanoid #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #NVIDIA #EgoScale #GR00T

NVIDIA just announced EgoScale 🤖🧠 NVIDIA Research has uncovered a log-linear scaling law for robot dexterity by pretraining VLA models on over 20,000 hours of egocentric human video This massive dataset is 20 times larger than previous efforts and proves that robot intelligence follows a predictable path: the more human data, the lower the loss The secret is a simple recipe combining large-scale human pretraining with a small amount of aligned human-robot mid-training to bridge the gap In testing, this method boosted the average success rate by 54% on a 22-DoF robotic hand compared to policies built without pretraining EgoScale also enables one-shot task adaptation and works across different hardware, suggesting that human motion is a universal motor prior for robots Website: Paper: Source: NVIDIA Research #Robot #Humanoid #Robotics #AI #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #NVIDIA #EgoScale #GR00T

RoboHub🤖

43,752 views • 4 months ago

World models hold a lot of promise for robotics, but they're data hungry and often struggle with long horizons. We learn models from a few (< 10) human demos that enable a robot to plan in completely novel scenes! Our key idea is to model *symbols* not pixels 👇

World models hold a lot of promise for robotics, but they're data hungry and often struggle with long horizons. We learn models from a few (< 10) human demos that enable a robot to plan in completely novel scenes! Our key idea is to model symbols not pixels 👇

Nishanth Kumar

82,931 views • 10 months ago

We discovered an emergent property of VLAs like π0/π0.5/π0.6: as we scale up pre-training, the model learns to align human videos and robot data! This gives us a simple way to leverage human videos. Once π0.5 knows how to control robots, it can naturally learn from human video.

We discovered an emergent property of VLAs like π0/π0.5/π0.6: as we scale up pre-training, the model learns to align human videos and robot data! This gives us a simple way to leverage human videos. Once π0.5 knows how to control robots, it can naturally learn from human video.

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1,182,649 views • 6 months ago

1/5 🚀 Thrilled to open-source OSCAR 🤖 — an action-conditioned world model for robotics, led by the visiting student in my group Zhuoyuan Wu! It generalizes across different robot embodiments with precise action controllability. All trained on a single GH200 GPU, and outperforms existing open-sourced baselines, which have larger model capacity and need more compute. Everything is public, including training data. 📄 Paper: 🌐 Project: 💻 Code: 🤗 Robot data: 🤗 Human data: 🤗 Weights: #Robotics #WorldModels #AI #OpenSource

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Jun Gao

103,490 views • 29 days ago

🚀 We’re excited to announce LingBot-VA, a new state-of-the-art robot policy model from Robbyant ! LingBot-VA is built on a causal, autoregressive video-action world model for generalist robot control. Highlights: (1) First unified autoregressive video-action world model for robot control (2) Low-latency inference with a new asynchronous execution pipeline (3) SOTA on RoboTwin (92.9%, firstever > 90%) and LIBERO (98.5%) (4) +20% over π0.5 on challenging real-world long-horizon & high-precision tasks

🚀 We’re excited to announce LingBot-VA, a new state-of-the-art robot policy model from Robbyant ! LingBot-VA is built on a causal, autoregressive video-action world model for generalist robot control. Highlights: (1) First unified autoregressive video-action world model for robot control (2) Low-latency inference with a new asynchronous execution pipeline (3) SOTA on RoboTwin (92.9%, firstever > 90%) and LIBERO (98.5%) (4) +20% over π0.5 on challenging real-world long-horizon & high-precision tasks

Yinghao Xu

46,962 views • 5 months ago

Tired of teleoperation? One human video → 1,000s of robot demos. (📍GitHub ) Scaling Robot Data Without Dynamics Simulation or Robot Hardware Real2Render2Real (R2R2R) is a new way to scale robot data without physics simulation or hardware. You take a phone scan + a single monocular human demo. It tracks the motion, renders photorealistic scenes, and generates diverse, robot-agnostic trajectories ready for training. > No teleop, no sim, no robot, just a phone and a video > Train VLA models and diffusion policies directly on the output > Supports multiple robot embodiments with kinematic consistency > 1000s of demos in 1/27 the time of real-world collection Thank you, Max Fu, for sharing!! Project: Paper: Code coming soon: It shows that with the right pipeline, you can scale robot learning data without touching a robot. One of the most interesting directions in scalable robotics today. —— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:

Tired of teleoperation? One human video → 1,000s of robot demos. (📍GitHub ) Scaling Robot Data Without Dynamics Simulation or Robot Hardware Real2Render2Real (R2R2R) is a new way to scale robot data without physics simulation or hardware. You take a phone scan + a single monocular human demo. It tracks the motion, renders photorealistic scenes, and generates diverse, robot-agnostic trajectories ready for training. > No teleop, no sim, no robot, just a phone and a video > Train VLA models and diffusion policies directly on the output > Supports multiple robot embodiments with kinematic consistency > 1000s of demos in 1/27 the time of real-world collection Thank you, Max Fu, for sharing!! Project: Paper: Code coming soon: It shows that with the right pipeline, you can scale robot learning data without touching a robot. One of the most interesting directions in scalable robotics today. —— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:

Ilir Aliu

42,804 views • 5 months ago

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 endless human demos, let the robot figure out where it fails, learn how to recover, and then distill that knowledge back into its main model. Key takeaways from the research: ✅ Uses residual reinforcement learning to recover from policy failures ✅ Achieves 99% success on LIBERO and 100% on real Franka and YAM arms ✅ Runs hour-long manipulation tasks without human resets ✅ Builds a feedback loop between real-world data and model adaptation Unlike supervised fine-tuning, which relies on humans, PLD learns from the robot’s own experience. By training on its own failure distribution, the model becomes both more efficient and more aligned with the real world. It’s not just a technical shift, it’s a step toward robots that improve themselves through real-world practice. Thanks for sharing, Wenli Xiao !! Paper and demos: —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:

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 endless human demos, let the robot figure out where it fails, learn how to recover, and then distill that knowledge back into its main model. Key takeaways from the research: ✅ Uses residual reinforcement learning to recover from policy failures ✅ Achieves 99% success on LIBERO and 100% on real Franka and YAM arms ✅ Runs hour-long manipulation tasks without human resets ✅ Builds a feedback loop between real-world data and model adaptation Unlike supervised fine-tuning, which relies on humans, PLD learns from the robot’s own experience. By training on its own failure distribution, the model becomes both more efficient and more aligned with the real world. It’s not just a technical shift, it’s a step toward robots that improve themselves through real-world practice. Thanks for sharing, Wenli Xiao !! Paper and demos: —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:

Ilir Aliu

22,812 views • 8 months ago