20 August 2026

Robot learns new physical tasks from watching single demo

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  • Generalist AI released GEN-1.5, a model that learns physical skills by watching 3 to 12-second video demonstrations of humans or other robots performing tasks.
  • The robot succeeded on its first attempt 59% of the time and reached 83% success rate after a small amount of practice with the new skill.

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