2025-11-20
This is hands down the best robotics startup launch I have seen 🔥 Full-stack innovation from hardware design to betting big on UMI to smooth and impressive policies. After 1.5 years of stealth, instantly launching as a top-5 robot foundation model team. Congrats!👏
Wired
Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading a dishwasher, and plans to launch in beta in 2026
Sunday Robotics has a new way to train robots to do common household tasks. The startup plans to put its fully autonomous robots in homes next year.
2023-09-01
‼️Deep RL strikes again‼️ Human-level AI performance is enough for huge societal impact, but what really captures our imagination are truly *superhuman* AI results. These results come consistently from one method: deep reinforcement learning! And now... RL drone racing ✈️ 🏁
Ars Technica
University of Zürich and Intel researchers reveal Swift, an autonomous drone trained via deep reinforcement learning to beat human champions in FPV drone racing
University creates the first autonomous system capable of beating humans at drone racing.
2023-07-30
Introducing RT-2, representing the culmination of two trends: - Tokenize and train everything together: web-scale text, images, and robot data - VLMs are not just representations, big VLMs *are policies* Sounds subtle, but we'll look back on this as an inflection point! 📈
New York Times
Google launches RT-2 or Robotics Transformer 2, a “vision-language-action” model trained on text and images from the web that can output robotic actions
Our sneak peek into Google's new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.
2023-07-29
Introducing RT-2, representing the culmination of two trends: - Tokenize and train everything together: web-scale text, images, and robot data - VLMs are not just representations, big VLMs *are policies* Sounds subtle, but we'll look back on this as an inflection point! 📈
New York Times
Google launches RT-2 or Robotics Transformer 2, a “vision-language-action” model trained on text and images from the web that can output robotic actions
Our sneak peek into Google's new robotics model, RT-2, which melds artificial intelligence technology with robots.