Grabbing the Robot's Arm: On-Site Physical Corrections Cut New Behavior Dev From 1 Day to 10 Minutes
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-08-30
Reimagine Robotics says it cut new factory robot behavior development from 1 day of engineering to 10 minutes — and the trick is not a bigger foundation model but letting workers physically correct the robot on-site.
- When the robot errs, the operator grabs the arm, guides the right motion, and keeps post-training the system around the actual workflow.
- In a hard-drive disassembly deployment, that loop cut dev + testing time for a new behavior from roughly 1 day to 10 minutes.
- At another customer, employees expanded the robot from unloading 3D printers to washing, curing, and drying parts themselves.
A pragmatic robot-learning paradigm: ship something useful, then let the people who know the job teach the edge cases.
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