Indie Developer Attempts Token Launch to Fund Embodied Robot Evaluations
du_yilun · x · 2026-08-13
An independent robotics researcher is attempting to launch a token, $DZERO, on the Robinhood Chain to fund evaluations for their embodied AI model, Dream Zero. The model demonstrates generalization to unseen environments and tasks, but real-world robotic evaluations are prohibitively expensive. The author hopes to use the raised funds to test across more robots and publish all results openly.
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