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General-purpose learned models intended to control many robot bodies and tasks rather than one, trained on pooled video, simulation and teleoperation data.
Dyna Robotics says its Dyna-2.1 robot agent folded restaurant napkins at a 99.4% success rate for 24 straight hours. The figure comes from a podcast's summary of a conference talk, with no napkin count or definition of success attached.
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Runway debuted Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model it says adapts to new robot bodies with light fine-tuning, alongside an ad agent called Runway Ads. Because the weights are open, outside robotics teams can measure what that fine-tuning costs on their own machines.
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Sources cited by TechCrunch say the 44-person lab is in talks at a $6 billion pre-money valuation, weeks after closing at $2.3 billion. That is a 2.6x step-up, and more than 3x pre-to-pre.
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The model teaches robot arms from hand demonstrations instead of per-task code. Generalist's own figures put completion at 83% with a few examples, which still leaves a person at the station.
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A $14 billion valuation on roughly $30 million of half-year revenue, and three arm makers now shipping someone else's model inside machines they sell under their own names.
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