A robot trainer's take: the $2,490 humanoid and hosted Pi API still don't fix data
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-24
A practitioner breaks down two launches in the same week: the $2,490 FF Nova humanoid and the hosted robot-model Pi API. One cuts the hardware bill, the other cuts the training stack — but neither fixes the part that actually decides whether a robot works: data, which is still yours to collect. Physical AI just got a developer tier: cheaper hardware, hosted training, data still on you.
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