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Industrial automation @rhoda_ai
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(1/n) Watch our robot search a box and find textured balls, entirely without vision!

Over the past few months, it’s been incredibly fun to work on bringing touch into our Direct Video-Action (DVA) model. Here’s how our video model is “seeing” through touch 🧵
Rhoda AI @RhodaAI Oct 14
What can a robot do without vision?

We gave our robot a sense of touch and showed it can recognize and retrieve objects with its cameras blindfolded.

Introducing Rhoda’s new tactile sensor—it feels pressure, texture, vibration, slip, and temperature, just like your fingertips.
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Extremely rigorous study. We’ve shown that under the DVA paradigm, *web video* pre-training performance is a strong predictor of *real robot performance* in complex industrial tasks after post-training.

When @tongzhou_mu first presented the findings internally, he ended the meeting with: “At Rhoda, we do real science.” 🐐
Does scaling pre-training on general web video improve a complex manipulation task in real deployment?
We scale model size and pre-training compute, and test on one industrial task.
Yes. The better a pre-trained model predicts web video, the better its post-trained policy. 🧵
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