#Robot foundation models (10)

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π0.7: a Steerable Generalist Robotic Foundation Model with Emergent Capabilities

π0.7 is a steerable generalist robotic foundation model conditioned on diverse multimodal context—language commands, subgoal images, and task metadata—enabling strong out-of-the-box performance in unseen environments, zero-shot cross-embodiment transfer, and emergent capabilities matching RL-finetuned specialists.

Physical Intelligence, Bo Ai, Ali AminApr 16, 2026

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Dyna Crosses the Customer ROI Threshold: Dyna-2 Reaches 1,590 Napkins Per Day While Deployment Becomes the Eval

Dyna says Din Tai Fung will scale its robots after crossing the customer ROI threshold. Dyna-2 raises napkin folding from 35 to 95 per hour with quality improving from 75% to 93%, reaching 1,590 table-ready napkins daily. The essay details the production stack: reliable episode capture, automatic SOP labeling, failure drill-downs, hardware degradation prediction, and a deployment flywheel that can reach ROI in three days.

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Introducing S1: In-Context Learning for Robotics — One Video Demonstration Is All It Takes

Skild AI's flagship robotic foundation model S1 is built from the ground up as an in-context learner: show it a video demonstration of a task — even an unseen 10-minute long-horizon one — and it executes with no fine-tuning. On unseen tasks, one demonstration ≈ 380 post-training examples; at 100k pre-training hours S1 reaches 66% success vs 9% for language-prompted VLAs.

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