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1X World Model | From Video to Action: A New Way Robots Learn

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Home robots need common sense behavior and a deep understanding of the physical world.

Home robots need common sense behavior and a deep understanding of the physical world. Many robot foundation models today are vision-language-action models (VLAs), which take a pretrained VLM and add an output head to predict robot actions (PI0.6, Helix, Groot N1.5). VLMs benefit from internet-scale knowledge, but are trained on objectives that emphasize visual and semantic understanding over prediction of physical dynamics. Tens of thousands of hours of costly robot data are needed to teach a model how to solve tasks considered simple for a human. Additionally, auxiliary objectives are…

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