Physical Intelligence unveils OM-1: robot foundation model trained purely on human data, zero teleop
zipengfu · x · 2026-09-15
Physical Intelligence has introduced OM-1, its first robot foundation model, zero-shot generalizing to any robot embodiment: tabletop arms, industrial arms, and humanoids.
Key claims: it learns directly from human manipulation data with no teleop or robot data, achieves close-to-human-level dexterity and efficiency, and supports multi-robot collaboration.
Robotics researcher @mangahomanga (retweeted by zipengfu) called the results "very impressive," noting the lead author's PhD papers on manipulation from human data were among his favorites — lending credibility to the human-data scaling approach in robotics.
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