Skild robot learns to make pancakes from one video, mastering in-context learning
deepakpathak · x · 2026-08-27
Skild AI demonstrated a robot performing complex tasks like making pancakes after watching just one demo video, without fine-tuning.
Dubbed the "GPT-3 moment for robotics," this breakthrough proves the model's ability to execute long-horizon tasks out-of-distribution and follow instructions, successfully mastering in-context learning.
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