GEN-0 has given us a step-change in the speed of generalization

Last week at NVIDIA GTC, we did a live demo of our GEN-0 foundational model. This was our first public live demo! We ran it nonstop during all open hours of the conference. The energy at the booth was awesome. We were amazed at how actively people sought us out and how quickly word spread. Thank you to all who stopped by!

But for us, what’s most notable is not the demo itself but how quickly we were able to put it together. GEN-0 models have proven to be so capable at generalizing to new robots and new environments, that we said yes to doing a demo knowing that we’d only have a few days to prepare with an entirely new type of robot. This would have been impossible even just a few months ago.

The timeline leading up to GTC: brand new robot, only in our office for a handful of days

We were fortunate to be asked by Universal Robots, the world’s #1 cobot manufacturer by volume, to join them in their booth to live demo our GEN-0 model on their new mobile manipulation platform.

This new mobile manipulation platform—consisting of UR7e arms on a MiR base and mounted together by a Vention frame—did not previously exist!

Despite not having ever seen or touched this robot in person, only about a month before the conference, we said yes to doing the demo.

Due to shipping time, robot setup, and other delays, in truth we only ended up having a small number of days to set up and prepare the demo.

This is a challenging multi-step task that emphasizes motion precision (tight tolerances of the components of the box) as well as force precision (it is especially challenging to not crumple the different paper and cardboard components).

We then shipped the robot to our SF office, where we had everything running within a day of arrival and just three full work days to do final prep of the demo before sending it to GTC.

Generalization for free

At GTC, we unpacked the robot, booted it up, and its performance was identical to operating in our offices. Of course, since there wasn’t time, we used no data from inside the GTC exhibition hall.

The demo ran for every hour of the exhibit (no limited or scheduled times) and we brought out the hockey stick to demonstrate the model’s resilience.

A future where robots show up and just work

We took a robot platform that didn’t exist and had a live, public demo of GEN-0 running on the system within a handful of days.

This is a preview of a world where robots can just show up and work. It validates the power of GEN-0 as a true foundational model enabling things that were simply not possible before.

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