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Personal update: I've joined @sundayrobotics. Two questions ran through my whole PhD: how to learn from scalable human data, and how to build general-purpose robots. Trying to answer them convinced me of one thing: general-purpose robots will never come from better models alone. It takes tight iteration across data, hardware, model, control, and evaluation. Every loop you can shorten matters. My first dinner with @tonyzzhao and @chichengcc turned into a four-hour conversation. I walked away realizing how much we saw eye to eye: scale the data, think full-stack, start from the problem you want to solve instead of the idea you want to win. So getting to work at Sunday is a dream come true, a place to solve generalization with the full breadth of human data and system-level thinking, and keep chasing the questions I care most about. After my first month in, two things stand out: Sunday’s full-stack team iterates unbelievably fast, and the energy when everyone is aligned on the same vision is electric. This speed and energy is exactly why what used to feel impossible now feels close. Home robots, the frontier physical AI in the hands of ordinary people, were long seen as a distant dream . At Sunday, I watch this dream take shape every day. I'm convinced there's real research-market fit here: foundation models and home robots point toward the same north star, generalization, not specialization, because every home is different. Excited for the zero-to-one moment ahead.
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specialization vs. generalization scalability is a function of marginal cost
automating many factory tasks will save ~millions of hours automating just a handful of home tasks will save ~billions of hours
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The current generation of humanoid and humanoid-adjacent robots is producing some great designs.
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Um…I think this is called “Sunday Robotics” @JunyaoShi
robotics neolab called Chore Automation who’s building this
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Saturday Robotics × Sunday Robotics × Monday Robotics In one photo 😂 @saturdayrobotic @sundayrobotics @MondayRobotics
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Work Trial -> Full time -> ?
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Teleop is literally just Ratatouille for robots 🐀🤖
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Do chores with my...
Wake up, check my iPhone, take off my Invisalign, put on Uniqlo, commute in my Tesla, open my MacBook, order Sweetgreen, drink Diet Coke, run in my On, cook with Misen, go to sleep on a Parachute
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MY GOAT. Junyao was one of the first people I got to sit down with at Sunday. He always takes great care to explain things to me and treats my questions opinions with sincerity, as little as I know about ML. So glad he's here!
Personal update: I've joined @sundayrobotics. Two questions ran through my whole PhD: how to learn from scalable human data, and how to build general-purpose robots. Trying to answer them convinced me of one thing: general-purpose robots will never come from better models alone. It takes tight iteration across data, hardware, model, control, and evaluation. Every loop you can shorten matters. My first dinner with @tonyzzhao and @chichengcc turned into a four-hour conversation. I walked away realizing how much we saw eye to eye: scale the data, think full-stack, start from the problem you want to solve instead of the idea you want to win. So getting to work at Sunday is a dream come true, a place to solve generalization with the full breadth of human data and system-level thinking, and keep chasing the questions I care most about. After my first month in, two things stand out: Sunday’s full-stack team iterates unbelievably fast, and the energy when everyone is aligned on the same vision is electric. This speed and energy is exactly why what used to feel impossible now feels close. Home robots, the frontier physical AI in the hands of ordinary people, were long seen as a distant dream . At Sunday, I watch this dream take shape every day. I'm convinced there's real research-market fit here: foundation models and home robots point toward the same north star, generalization, not specialization, because every home is different. Excited for the zero-to-one moment ahead.
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We’ve also grown our ML team 5× over the past six months. A lot more to come soon.
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The reading you to sleep is fantastic
Personal update: I've joined @sundayrobotics. Two questions ran through my whole PhD: how to learn from scalable human data, and how to build general-purpose robots. Trying to answer them convinced me of one thing: general-purpose robots will never come from better models alone. It takes tight iteration across data, hardware, model, control, and evaluation. Every loop you can shorten matters. My first dinner with @tonyzzhao and @chichengcc turned into a four-hour conversation. I walked away realizing how much we saw eye to eye: scale the data, think full-stack, start from the problem you want to solve instead of the idea you want to win. So getting to work at Sunday is a dream come true, a place to solve generalization with the full breadth of human data and system-level thinking, and keep chasing the questions I care most about. After my first month in, two things stand out: Sunday’s full-stack team iterates unbelievably fast, and the energy when everyone is aligned on the same vision is electric. This speed and energy is exactly why what used to feel impossible now feels close. Home robots, the frontier physical AI in the hands of ordinary people, were long seen as a distant dream . At Sunday, I watch this dream take shape every day. I'm convinced there's real research-market fit here: foundation models and home robots point toward the same north star, generalization, not specialization, because every home is different. Excited for the zero-to-one moment ahead.
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We will be going 📈📈📈!
Welcome to Sunday Junyao! MTBF going 📈
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So excited to be a part of the team as well 🙌
Big win for the team — excited to have @JunyaoShi with us!
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Let’s make history together 🤝
So much alignment in how we think about robotics, and that shared philosophy is what brings Sunday’s ML team together. Excited to build with you!
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he leaked our flagship task.. just like that
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While learning from human data has endless appeal, the system engineering to make it actually work is never trivial. Great to see real progress here!
Introducing Do as I Do 👀, a framework to transform everyday human videos into 100s of dexterous robot demos. Co-led with @bhawna_paliwal_ and @HarithejaE, and check out @notmahi's thread! Here’s a little preview of our dexterous manipulation results. More about how we produce them from human reconstructions in this mini-thread! 🧵 x.com/notmahi/status/2067640…
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Both ALOHA and PPO are too ahead of their time...
Reviews of the original ALOHA paper (2023): "It is very hard to find any strength in a paper that forgets about 50 year of development of robotics... the authors are referred to any good book of control theory or robotics to integrate their background... the solution proposed is just damaging the ongoing discussion on low cost-high performance systems."
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This was a while back, so i'd hope that academia has absorbed the simple-but-scalable aesthetic since then. But also, it's surprised me how long the paper and objective has stuck around. It's hard to predict what'll be a minor algorithmic tweak that gets quickly forgotten/superseded, vs one that sticks around and is hard to beat
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