Robot data bets this week: Tesla's 10k-20k robot Optimus Academy, lab success rates stuck at 70-80%
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-23
Three key moves in robot data this week:
- Tesla plans to build 10k-20k robots for an "Optimus Academy" to generate robot training data.
- Unitree launched Rehearsal, a tool where AI writes and sim-tests robot code.
- DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon went video → sim → Apptronik Apollo, landing 7 straight cornhole shots.
The author also suggests asking every humanoid company for success rates over 100+ attempts on one fixed task plus interventions per hour. Ken Goldberg told The Verge lab success rates have stalled around 70-80%: "That's not acceptable for real industry."
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