Hey guys!
I've been doing some research on egocentric video data for robots and stumbled upon this pretty developed setup. They use a Pico 4 Ultra, motion trackers, and ZED cameras to collect the data.
Looks impressive!
Hey everyone!
I would like to discuss the question of egocentric data for robots. There's a lot of egocentric data on the internet, as well as data that's distributed commercially.
What caught my attention is videos that are filmed via iPhones or GoPro and nothing else, I saw a ton of data like this... I was really interested whether this data is actually valuable for training a VLA model if there is no tracking. How can the robot train on this data?
And I also read an interesting article "EgoHumanoid: Unlocking In-the-Wild Loco-Manipulation with Robot-Free Egocentric Demonstration" on arxiv where the authors presented a more developed setup, with a Pico VR headset, body trackers and wrist cameras. Is it better?
I'm really curious what people who actually worked with this kind of data think. Or is simple GoPro videos like this already enough for training?..
Hey everyone! I was generating passport photo style portraits for my project and wanted to share these funny errors that the model makes 🤣
Idk how it's possible, especially these cat's ears - it's just something 🤣
Hey everyone!
I've been learning a lot about humanoid robots lately, going to conferences like ICRA, VivaTech and WAIC, and I noticed a pattern I want to discuss.
We see a lot of demos from companies like Agibot, Unitree, Booster and others and the robots look pretty smart. But in most cases it's actually teleoperation or scripted behavior, and the robot itself can't do much autonomously. At best it can handle a limited set of tasks, like picking up one EXACT object (in terms of shape and texture).
For example, at ICRA I talked to a company that had a robot picking up objects with the help of their VLA model. Turns out their VLA model can only detect how many fingers to use to grab something, that's it. Like no sense of how much pressure to apply, nothing like that
I think this right now is the biggest trap or even a scam. My hypothesis is that these humanoid robot companies just provide the hardware, and the actual VLA model has to be developed by the customer. I also think that eventually some software company or maybe just one will build a universal model that works across different robots, but right now that doesn't really exist yet
I'd really like to hear what you all think about this hypothesis
Have you guys seen this robot? It's a French company that makes robots that speak different languages. They provide them to hospitals and use them to help elderly people
I think it's actually a really good thing and the direction of development
I saw this video from WAIC 2026 with a two-armed robot dressed as a chef stir-frying shrimp, with a screen behind it showing live bboxes and an XYZ coordinate overlay. Not sure if that detection is feeding a separate motion planner, or if it's just a visualized intermediate step inside one end-to-end model
It made me think if anyone know companies with real end-to-end VLA models for humanoid and embodied AI systems? Or is everyone still just doing demos at this point?