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Meet the Robot Trained on 100 Million Internet Videos

Rhoda AI is betting the future of robotics starts with internet video, not lab data. We visited the company’s headquarters to see how its Direct Video Action model learns physics from hundreds of millions of clips. 0:00 Introduction: Training Robots via Video 0:41 The Direct Video Action (DVA) Model 1:20 Where Does the Training Data…

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Rhoda AI is betting the future of robotics starts with internet video, not lab data. We visited the company’s headquarters to see how its Direct Video Action model learns physics from hundreds of millions of clips.

0:00 Introduction: Training Robots via Video
0:41 The Direct Video Action (DVA) Model
1:20 Where Does the Training Data Come From?
1:50 Demo: Complex Decanting and Sorting Tasks
2:35 Inspecting and Organizing Parts
2:51 Real-Time Adaptability Test
3:38 Predicting the Future: Reasoning and Scoring
4:02 Industry Partners and Future Outlook

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  1. @118Columbus

    July 19, 2026 at 8:05 am

    First comment!

  2. @biffandhapp418

    July 19, 2026 at 8:05 am

    People are becoming obsolete.

    • @theotheleo6830

      July 19, 2026 at 7:01 pm

      Nah, the robots still need people to attach strap handles to boxes so they can pick them up.

  3. @tevinaduma5789

    July 19, 2026 at 8:07 am

    Youtube might sue. Would be ironic lol

  4. @CountryballsofAwesomeness

    July 19, 2026 at 8:19 am

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    • @davstar0

      July 19, 2026 at 8:47 am

      The tech is haram and trained on haram videos

  5. @zunedog31

    July 19, 2026 at 8:33 am

    A company designed to capture VC money.

  6. @climatecypher

    July 19, 2026 at 8:57 am

    If I copied a video, and sold my new video, I’d be fined and branded as a copyright thief.

    • @FiftyTRoadGardenCottag

      July 19, 2026 at 10:10 am

      True, as if it were a human handyman watching how-to videos, they’d be ad revenue.

    • @Echolonious

      July 19, 2026 at 10:34 am

      …No?

      You’re telling me if you copied a video about making pizza, made your own and recorded it, and posted it.. you’d be subjected to copyright? No.

    • @eastmanwebb5477

      July 19, 2026 at 2:10 pm

      This company is not selling new videos. They are looking at videos and learning from them, just like humans do.

  7. @kpnitrl38

    July 19, 2026 at 9:42 am

    That’s pretty cool actually.

  8. @Mackenzie-x5h

    July 19, 2026 at 10:05 am

    If I copied a video, and sold my new video, I’d be fined and branded as a copyright thief. ……

  9. @strongbelieveroftheholybible

    July 19, 2026 at 10:21 am

    We are close to end times! Robots wanna take over!! Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon🙏🏼❤️🕊Repent , believe in the Gospel, Be Born Again

  10. @KeithBarnett

    July 19, 2026 at 11:36 am

    That’s pretty much how we learn a lot of things nowadays

  11. @Taitmon

    July 19, 2026 at 11:53 am

    “Trained on hours and hours of videos”

    *Puts gun near robot*

  12. @Citiaova5098

    July 19, 2026 at 12:15 pm

    Naughty america taking notes

  13. @NilesDavisStudio

    July 19, 2026 at 1:15 pm

    So what if you train it on AI generated videos? They’re all over Facebook being captioned as real-life events.

  14. @illusiondee

    July 19, 2026 at 9:11 pm

    how does a robot who “Trained on 100 Million Internet Videos” has not seen or encountered an aluminium can?

  15. @aelaan12

    July 20, 2026 at 1:44 pm

    How do you learn to fly a plane? How do you learn to make garments? There is millions of ways to gather that information. That information is, in a lot of cases, protected by some form of law. But what if that information was paid for by ad revenue, just like when I open a YouTube and have a paid subscription? Data, no matter how it is gathered, has a huge amount of value. When I watch something and I learn about I often use that in my own life.

  16. @SSS-mp8th

    July 20, 2026 at 6:38 pm

    Companies will spend any amount of money to not hire humans.

  17. @adlee5943

    July 21, 2026 at 6:53 pm

    so llm predicts the next subword, physical ai will focus on predicting the next action..

  18. @drgoldenpants

    July 21, 2026 at 7:07 pm

    looks like at the end the object made contact with the box , this shows these models are still very much black box and they dont really understand collision and the physical world yet

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