Ai2: Building physical AI with virtual simulation data
Virtual simulation data is driving the development of physical AI across corporate environments, led by initiatives like Ai2’s MolmoBot. Instructing hardware to interact with the real world has historically relied on highly expensive and manually-collected demonstrations. Technology providers building generalist manipulation agents typically frame extensive real-world training as the basis for these systems. For some context, projects like DROID include 76,000 teleoperated trajectories gathered across 13 institutions, representing roughly 350 hours of human effort. Google DeepMind’s RT-1 required […]