A startup three months old beat OpenAI on a robot benchmark.
Chinese startup Simate, founded three months ago, released its first robot control model, Simate-beta. It topped the RoboDojo robot benchmark on 23 September with a 27.96% task success rate. The team came from self-driving work and now lets its own agents run experiments.
Why it mattersWinning with a 28% success rate shows how far home and factory robots still are. It also shows a small team can now reach the front of that race.
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