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Generalist claims its GEN-1.5 robot foundation model autonomously installs and removes an O-ring on a hydraulic rod gland and learns new physical tasks from single demonstrations in seconds without gradient updates — independent replication or real industrial adoption establishes one-shot physical-skill learning as demonstrated capability, while the tasks remaining curated demos closes it as demo-grade.

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10-07 05:40⭐ origin directly observedGeneralist’s GEN-1.5 can repeatedly install and remove an O-ring from a hydraulic rod gland autonomously—the same foundation model can learn new physical tasks from seconds of demonstrations
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Humans have a remarkable ability to perform new physical skills from only one or a few examples. Our latest robot foundation model, GEN-1.5, exhibits the beginnings of that same ability: it can learn a new task in seconds, from a single example, without gradient updates or fine-tuning. It displays broad capabilities across one-shot and few-shot learning from demonstration, as well as zero-shot physical generalization. Although the tasks are simple and short-horizon, this is the first model we know for which one-shot and few-shot learning of physical skills have emerged at scale. We view these results as a significant step towards our mission of building general intelligence for the physical world.
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