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# [Octo: Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy](https://telos-robotics.hashnode.dev/blog-octo-en?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

100 demos, 5 hours fine-tuning — the practical start of open-source VLA (NeurIPS 2024)

Apr 13 · 6 min read · telos-robotics.hashnode.dev  
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I build robots for a living. Not in simulation. Not in a lab. On the floor, with real hardware, real failure modes, and real deadlines. My work spans the full stack of modern robotics: embedded systems firmware, autonomous navigation, and the end-to-end pipeline for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model development — dataset collection, training, inference optimization, and sim-to-real transfer. I've worked hands-on with platforms from Unitree, Deep Robotics, Dexmate, and Robotis, among others. Each one teaches you something different about the gap between what models promise and what robots actually do.

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