robotics foundation models

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Aug 24, 2026 bullish
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Florence: Generalist robots generalize to untrained tools for complex tasks
“Another one is the ability to have some, like, ingenuity around how to use tools in a way that was also not trained for the task. So basically we can ask the robot to do a certain type of task where we've only trained it with one type of tool. We can give it a…”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 19:43 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
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Florence: Generalist trains on hundreds of thousands of interaction hours
“What this looks like more concretely, I would say, is, like, we just train a model on hundreds of thousands or millions of hours of data of Every single type of possible physical interaction in the world we can think of, and then we now have a model that we ca…”
Pete Florence Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 18:09 Ex-DeepMind Scientist Just Solved Robotic's Toughest Challenge
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