Physical Intelligence releases its first model (𝝅0)

Physical Intelligence is the high profile robotics software and model company started by an illustrious team which includes Stanford Professor Chelsea Finn and Berkeley Professor Sergey Levine and some of their students. Just like SkildAI, Physical Intelligence aims to build a general purpose foundation model for robots… essentially a machine learning model that can be employed by any robot to complete any task. After 8 months of work (the company received its first funding round in March 2024), Physical Intelligence released its first prototype of a general purpose foundation model for robots… called 𝝅0. They have a detailed blog with tons of cool videos, and a very well written paper.

Cool videos

Videos include demonstrations of robots taking laundry out of a washing machine and folding them, cleaning up tables, assembling a box from cardboard sheets, picking up whole eggs from a bowl and placing them in a carton, and grocery bagging. The demonstration of folding laundry is neat… th…