this reminds me of classic cascaded control: the outer loop outputs setpoints or trajectories, while the inner loop runs much faster and handles the low-level dynamics. For fast actions, waypoints alone aren’t enough—velocities and contact feedback matter too. Impedance control is a useful analogy: instead of rigidly following a path, the robot responds to contact like a spring and damper. IMO, getting this interaction right is one of the keys to fast, smooth motion.
a big challenge in building a generalist robot is the outer loop: mapping language& images into possible trajectories. A lot of the attention in robot AI goes there and stops there. RewardAI says that picking a good trajectory is only part of the problem; executing it smoothly when contact and loads change is just as important. The team is very serious about robotics, impressive and congrats.
Introducing OM-1, our first robot foundation model, zero-shot generalizing to any robot: table-top arms, industrial arms and humanoids.
- learned directly from human manipulation data
- no teleop/robot data
- close to human-level dexterity and efficiency
- multi-robot collab