IIndraKumar Reddy Guvva·May 11Three People Who Never Agree Just Said the Same Thing About RoboticsOne of the researchers who defined the modern VLA paradigm. The CEO directing the world's most vertically integrated AI stack. The scientist charting robotics' next decade at the company that builds the hardware it all runs on. Same conclusion. Same week.12 min read·indrareddy.hashnode.dev
IIndraKumar Reddy Guvva·May 11Stop Picking Sides: VLAs, JEPA, World Foundational Models, and WAMs Are All Solving Different ProblemsA no-nonsense map of Physical AI's architecture stack — what each paradigm does, where it breaks, and which one you actually need19 min read·indrareddy.hashnode.dev
Ttelos·Apr 16π0: A General-Purpose Robot Policy via VLM + Flow Matching — Physical Intelligence's First AnswerTL;DR π0 (pi-zero) is a general-purpose robot policy model released by Physical Intelligence in October 2024. The core idea: combine a pre-trained VLM (PaliGemma 3B) with a Flow Matching-based continuous action output — inheriting Internet-scale sema...9 min read·telos-robotics.hashnode.dev
Ttelos·Apr 14OpenVLA: How a 7B Open-Source Model Beat a 55B Closed-Source OneLlama 2 + DINOv2 + SigLIP — 16.5 points higher than RT-2-X, fine-tunable on a single GPU7 min read·telos-robotics.hashnode.dev
Ttelos·Apr 13Octo: Open-Source Generalist Robot Policy100 demos, 5 hours fine-tuning — the practical start of open-source VLA (NeurIPS 2024)6 min read·telos-robotics.hashnode.dev
Ttelos·Apr 12RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at ScaleThe first large-scale proof that transformers work for real robot control — 130K demos, 700+ tasks, 35M parameters6 min read·telos-robotics.hashnode.dev
