OK-Robot Does Useful Home Chores With Zero Extra Training, Sparking Startup Hype Debate
notmahi · x · 2026-09-18
- Lerrel Pinto's team released OK-Robot, an open-vocabulary mobile manipulator for homes: give it a natural-language pick-and-drop instruction and it executes, no extra training required.
- NotMahi highlighted that the robot "arrives with no additional training and starts doing useful work," while mocking multi-billion-dollar robotics startups that claim AI breakthroughs demos comparable to what students with a few GPUs can do.
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