Pete Florence

Synphony deploys robots to pick strawberries. It's a $3B market in California alone, where labor is 60% of cost and the workforce is shrinking fast. Robots just hit the crossover point with field labor, and strawberries are the wedge — berries are a $15B market, and the same deployment layer extends everywhere else. Congrats on the launch, @im_sean_wu and @fujimotosaichi! ycombinator.com/launches/QSc-s…

GEN-1 delicately arranges potato chips, and lifts a heavy bag of potatoes — from a gentle touch to a strong grip. Read more about Gen-1 in our blog posts in the comments below ↓

Robot reaches deep for screws Read more about Gen-1 in our blog posts in the comments below ↓

Gen-1 ties zipties Read more about Gen-1 in our blog posts in the comments below ↓

Today marks the end of my first full week @GeneralistAI Last Monday, I was given a challenge: use our GEN-1 model to teach a robot a task of my choosing, using the same no-code platform our customers use. I picked the ball-and-vase magic trick. It was one of my favorites as a kid, and it felt like the right mix of fun and surprisingly hard. A few days later, GEN-1 pulled it off. I left Friday having watched the robot nail it 14 times in a row. What’s wild is that even 4 months ago, if you told me you could go from idea to on-robot skill in a couple of days, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. Really excited to be building with an incredible team. Can’t wait to see what week two brings 🤖

@quantbagel Leave the VLA, take the cannoli

@peteflorence I need a good vla to act as intermediary between people and the robot

the wrist cam keeps falling off

@kevinmpeterson1 Gnarly Kevin

Building robots in the wild is fun and crazy. Lots of things happen that have nothing to do with software or ML. The day before a recent demo, a hydraulic line for the bucket on one of our machines. In that state, you can do serious damage to the machine, and of course it stalls operations. No backup except our incredible ops team who dropped everything and got in action turning wrenches. We sourced a new line, got it fitted, and had the machine running again before morning. Nothing like a midnight wrench session to remind you this isn't a simulation.

GEN-1 cleans white board Read more about GEN-1 in our blog post in the comments below ↓

よくあるVLAは視覚の記憶が弱い(もしくは無い)のでこういうタスクは難しいのだけどGEN-1はできる。動かしてる最中も取りに行くそぶりを見せるのが一種の記憶(アクションとしての記憶)みたいなものを獲得していそう。 という面白い話。動き的にも模倣だけじゃない、RLが強いのかな。非常に楽しそう。

GEN-1 plays the 🐚 shell game, trained on just 1 hr of robot data. It also generalizes to unseen objects, like @BerkayAntmen 's car keys. Physical AI models should be capable of benchmark tasks like this one. It's interesting for the all the reasons @RhodaAI calls out -- requires visual memory, and the model must track the cups from the very start, at high frame rates. Interestingly, GEN-1 appears to exhibit a degree of "active perception." It's subtle; the hands can sometimes appear to "follow" the cups, using its own movements to help attend to where it thinks the object should be. Read more about GEN-1 in our blog post in the comments below ↓

Everyday for the past 2 weeks, we've been sharing something new from GEN-1, our latest milestone in scaling robot learning. This has never been done before. Going from ideas to skills in days (or faster) is what physical AI models should deliver. More coming. Stay tuned. Read more about it in our blog post in the comments below ↓

SCIENCE RULES! Bill Nye sparked it. @josephfkrause, @CarinaLHong, and @peteflorence, moderated by @Farshchi, take it further. They'll share where AI in science converges and diverges in approach between three of the hottest AI startups. Only at UNLOCK.

GEN-1 plays with fidget toy. Other tasks GEN-1 can do: youtube.com/playlist?list=… Read more about GEN-1, our latest foundation model for the physical world: generalistai.com/blog/apr-02-20…

@DominiqueCAPaul x.com/felixwyw/statu…

@peteflorence These grippers are different from the ones in your demo and closer to the videos you shared a few months ago. Why aren't you using the newer ones here?

Tbh, this is my favorite yet. Also, one of the best things is that I literally can’t even keep track of all the tasks happening in the offices anymore. I learn about this one day and boom we publish it on the internet. Amazing work by the full Generalist team to get here

@Deepans36819800 @AgilexRobotics Yes

These are @AgilexRobotics arms operating in a kitchen, carefully stacking the dishes in the rack. Nobody will have to do mundane chores like dishwasher loading in 2027. @peteflorence with enough data, do you think we can reliably run GEN-1 for this task?

In the bag

One demo a day keeps the doctor away ... 😂

We've been sharing something new from GEN-1 every day this past week. Going from ideas to skills in days (or faster) is what physical AI models should deliver. More coming. Stay tuned. Read more about GEN-1 here: generalistai.com/blog/apr-02-20…

GEN-1 puts plushies into polybags, in a warehouse outside the lab in New Hampshire.