Vincent Liu

The future of robotics isn't in the lab – it's in your hands. Can we teach robots to act in the real world without a single robot demonstration? Introducing EgoZero. Train real-world robot policies from human-first egocentric data. No robots. No teleop. Just Aria glasses and…

Robotics needs an open-source humanoid solution. There are a couple commercially viable humanoids, which are still expensive, closed source, and susceptible to geopolitics. I’m hopeful @kscalelabs could become a PyTorch-like platform for the ecosystem

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I think the most interesting insight from EgoZero is the tradeoff between 2D/3D representations in human-to-robot learning. 2D inputs (images, VLMs) scale and encode strong visual priors—but mapping these to 3D actions is hard and data-hungry, especially given the human-robot…

I wrote a fun little article about all the ways to dodge the need for real-world robot data. I think it has a cute title. sergeylevine.substack.com/p/sporks-of-agi

Playing around with some designs

Everyone says the value is in selling automation, but will do anything except sell automation

GPT-4.5 didn't scale because its pretraining dataset didn't scale

Your First Personal Robot Coming July 1st

Congrats to my friends @tonyduan_ @patrick_cho_1 who have been cooking! Tesla shows that we should engineer intelligent systems that scale over long horizons, and not compromise scalability to get short term wins.

When we think of human data collection, we usually think of recording accurate 3D proprioception, but this alone does not contain force information. On the other hand, teleoperation data collects the human's input as action labels, so robots trained this way can learn how much…

In AI, better models → higher productivity → higher margins → more output + capital deployment. In robotics, we often view outcomes as binary: solved or not. But if we instead frame partial success rates as boosting physical labor productivity, we can potentially increase…

Closed-loop robot policies directly from human interactions. No teleop, no robot data co-training, no RL, and no sim. Just Aria smart glasses. Everyday human data is passively scalable and a massively underutilized resource in robotics...More to come here in the coming weeks.