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When @theSamPadilla shut down EIDON AI, a hardware and data startup building training data for physical AI, he and his co-founders open-sourced the company's data, hardware designs and firmware. Then Padilla published a post-mortem called Robotics Data Is a Broken Business that had a viral moment last week.

We invited Sam to share his hard earned wisdom on our podcast: youtube.com/watch?v=cZAd8y…

Not artificial people. Extraordinary machines.

Robots are machines. So why do we hold them to standards we'd never apply to a dishwasher?

Our own @henrikbennetsen argues that for anyone building and deploying robots, treating them as exceptional does more harm than good. Judge them like any other machine: Does it do the job better? Do people refuse to go back?

Which robot has passed that test for you? #PhysicalAI #robotdeployment

Folding a shirt is easy. Proving your robot training data captured it right is not.

Buyers: Formant Vetted is an effortless way to vet vendors and pick the best physical AI data.

Providers: get Vetted and get in front of buyers ready to buy.

#PhysicalAI #Robotics

Most training data ships as a clip grid and a promise.

Formant Vetted grades every take at capture, against your spec.

464 takes: 187 meet spec, 277 don't, and you see exactly where the gaps are.

Know what's usable before you pay.

Quality you can prove. Diversity you can measure.

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#PhysicalAI #RobotLearning

Why would a food delivery robot need a $10,000 robotic arm? 🤖👇

Hint: It's not to hand you your pizza.

@trossenrobotics CEO Anish Shah on why "simple" tasks like pushing crosswalk buttons are where Physical AI is deploying today.

📺 Full episode: youtu.be/xn9E7sRiCMk

From Stanford ALOHA to production fleets: how Trossen is solving the robotics data problem. #PhysicalAI #Robotics