Branded water bottles are nice. We've got something better. Going out in a daily raffle at the Humanoid Hub Conference: - 2x NVIDIA Jetson Thor - 2x NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Thanks to @SkildAI & @NVIDIARobotics for sponsoring this. Oct 15-16, SF - Registration link ⏬

Ropedia just released W0, an open world model trained on ~10,000 hours of egocentric human video. One set of weights predicts first-person views for humans, robot arms, and humanoids (Unitree G1, Fourier GR-1) using a shared camera + skeleton representation. Adding a new robot only requires its URDF. It leads Cosmos 3 and DreamDojo across every benchmark tested. After distillation it runs at 21.3 FPS, enough for real-time VR control, and can roll out minute-long continuous loco-manipulation. Human pretraining transfers: the model with zero robot data already beats robot-trained baselines on several humanoid tests. In practice it can rank policies, pick better actions at runtime, and transfer to new robots without large-scale data collection. Paper, code, weights, and demos are all out.

Went to a Humanoid Conference in SF Met someone cute Thanks @TheHumanoidHub

Really was a magical conference!

What an incredible two days at the Humanoid Hub Conference!! 🤖🔥 Huge thanks to @TheHumanoidHub , @itsajchan , and the team for an amazing event! And to top it all off, I somehow went home with an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor!! Huge thanks to @nvidia for this beast! 🎉 Really enjoyed hearing from researchers and founders across 1X, Skild AI, Google DeepMind, Dyna Robotics, OpenMind, Lightberry, Auki Labs, Prometheus, and more. So many interesting talks, different perspectives on where robotics and physical AI are heading, and some super cool live demos! Also got to meet some amazing people and have great conversations about what they're working on. Everything from the speakers and demos to the networking was so well organized! I've been working on RL and world models for robotics, mostly in simulation, focusing on sample efficiency and long-horizon planning. I've been wanting to experiment with deploying learned policies and world models on edge hardware, and now I actually have a Thor to try them on! Couldn't have asked for a better end to the week! 🎉

It was a great series of talks. Thanks for hosting and thanks for the NVIDIA Jetson Thor. Planning to put it to good use for perception/reasoning/VLM/VLA models on edge

Had a great time at @TheHumanoidHub conference.

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It was quite special

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I listened to @xiao_ted one of the founders of @PrometheusInc, a new physical AI company. Out in the lobby after he gave a great talk. Which should be up sometime in next couple of weeks. It is just a joy to listen to him. So freaking smart. Took on technical problem after problem for more than an hour. His brain is at least 5x faster than mine. I love lobbies at conferences. This one is at @TheHumanoidHub. This is my happy place. Have a great weekend!

Humanoid Hub Conference Year One ☝️ Such an honor to be invited to speak and so grateful to be a part of the @TheHumanoidHub community. Real Roboticist’s know Devang has been doing it for the love of the game since day one. He supported us when no one cared what we were building and to be able to support him years later as we all grow together is the best feeling on earth. I almost teared up when a lady told me she flew from Honduras to hear my talk… major testament to the tensile strength of our communities fabric and all credit to Devang for creating the space for us all to connect.

I met a lot of people today at @TheHumanoidHub’s conference in San Francisco and I definitely was the stupidest one in the room. A role I am used to, but my meager brain struggles to keep up with people building robots. So many had something to say about Elon Musk, after we talked about the problems they are seeing while building their companies. It was one of the few where everyone stayed. Here is one of the last sessions, by the founders of @DynaRobotics. Packed. Usually in the last day of a conference everyone leaves early. Devang, seen at left, told me the videos of the day will be shared over the next few weeks. Out in the hallway many were brought up the roadster wanting to hear me tell them what I thought about the Roadster. But the bigger thing I learned is that Elon energized the San Francisco robotics industry with the Roadster. So many started their companies inspired by him. How many kids are dreaming of starting a company tonight? I once got 30,000 resumes sent into Microsoft because of an interview/video I did there with the HR team. They drove me around on a fake developer’s interview loop. Showing the process. If my video got 30,000 resumes, how many will last night’s demo influence to be submitted? A million? I know some kids who have as their dream of working there. The founders in SF are literally upgrading their dreams. It is a good day to be an American. It was a great day to be in San Francisco. But to the Joe Rogan video: Elon is quite a marketer, isn’t he. I am dreaming different dreams tonight. Aren’t you?

Absolutely nuts to see @dev_and_ @ericjang11 @Kanishka_Rao @TheHumanoidHub on stage together!!!

I won the Jetson Orin Nano! Thanks @SkildAI @TheHumanoidHub @hackersquadio Perfect for Deskman!

RT @aliattar: Time to go home!

Two days at @TheHumanoidHub's first conference in SF: Cool event, cooler people! The humanoids drew the crowds, but the real race is hands and data. the gap between a demo and deployment 🤖 Hands @proceptionAI's ProHand ran grasp cycles nonstop. 22 joints and a skin that feels contact, plus a glove that records human hands so robots can learn from people. @ChestnutRobotic pairs its Aero Hand with a wearable that captures how a worker does the job, so the hand can repeat it. Data @GenrobotAI, @BitRobotNetwork and @GroundedSI are turning everyday human video into robot training data, from 6-camera caps to labeled datasets. @AlloyRobotics' AI agents dig through fleet logs to find out why a robot failed. @Auki gives robots, phones and glasses one shared map of a space. Brain @SkildAI is building one model to run any robot body. Robots @lightberry's Lumi, a Unitree G1 with a social brain, traded high fives. @boosterobotics brought its $6K K1 for developers. After his talk, @1x_tech's chief designer spoke off the cuff in the hallway. 1X wants NEO in developers' hands first, to see what they build before it reaches homes.

Day 2 is also packed, @radbackwards sharing some awesome design insights.

At the @TheHumanoidHub robotics conference in San Francisco and this captures why I love San Francisco. The guy who is giving a keynote today, @broodsugar is talking with @JayLiStanford who is making robot hands in USA. I turn on the camera and get a lot of info about what is happening at the bleeding edge. And at the end we talk about the impact @elonmusk is having on not just him but the whole industry.

Met @boosterobotics' humanoid at @TheHumanoidHub's event this week 🤖 A $6K humanoid for geeks chilling in a camping chair, waving at the crowd 👋 Big brother T2 on guard duty.

we're sponsoring the first @TheHumanoidHub conference in SF 🤖 day 2 today. come find us on the demo floor at the AWS Builder Loft.