Physical Intelligence opens Pi API beta; D1 humanoid learns to pour tea from 97 demos
svlevine · x · 2026-10-14
Physical Intelligence announced the beta release of its Pi API, opening its robot foundation models to more teams after partnerships spanning strawberry harvesting to server assembly. Japan's Zeals disclosed post-training on the unreleased π0.7 for the D1 humanoid targeting real deployments. Early customer Omakase Robotics built a healthcare D1 that pours tea 10/10 times from 97 demonstrations and transfers to other D1 robots without per-robot camera calibration, showing cross-robot policy generalization.
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