Rhoda shows web-video pretraining scaling improves real-world robot performance
chris_j_paxton · x · 2026-09-16
Robotics startup Rhoda published one of the most rigorous studies of its kind: across thousands of trials and hundreds of hours of real robot evaluations, the team demonstrates that scaling web-video pre-training leads to better real-world robot performance.
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