Rhoda study: web-video pre-training scales robot foundation models for real work
vincesitzmann · x · 2026-09-16
Robotics startup Rhoda published a study, Does Scaling Web-Video Pre-training Help Real Robots Do Real Work?, presenting what it calls the first evidence that robot foundation models can scale on internet video data.
- Based on thousands of trials and hundreds of hours of robot evaluations, the study shows scaling web-video pre-training leads to better real-world robot performance.
- Prior robot foundation models relied on teleoperation, UMI, or egocentric data; web video is data truly available anywhere.
- Amplifiers call this an exciting moment: scaling on internet video is a necessary requirement for massively powerful robot models.
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