News and developments in robotics
Development from PI, Figure, and 1X Robotics
There has been a flurry of activity in robotics this week, which this post seeks to unravel. Lets get to business.
Physical Intelligence (PI) open sources ๐ 0. We have discussed Physical Intelligence a few times in this forum. ๐ 0 is the most advanced Vision Language Action (VLA) model out there in the market. This week, PI made ๐ 0 model weights open source. They also open-sourced code to run inference with ๐ 0 and fine tune ๐ 0 for other robots. They released fine-tuned weights for two popular robotics research platforms: ALOHA and DROID. Their blog post (which is a great read) features videos from research groups and universities who have tried ๐ 0 on in completely new and different environments and demonstrated that these models work.
In our view, open sourcing this model is great news for robot enthusiasts, as this is a top-notch model to experiment and play with. We are eager to see which research groups pick up experimenting with ๐ 0. One exciting thing to try would be to see howโฆ
