Open-Source Robotic Foundation Model Released
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-07-13
This introduces a robotic foundation model truly pre-trained from scratch, unlike many labs that start directly from VLMs or pre-trained video models.
The author highlights two key points:
- It's a robotic foundation model, making this technical approach quite rare
- The project is open-source
Comments noted that people would love to see benchmark comparisons against solutions like mimic video action models and SO100.
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