Dream Labs launches Dream-1, a robot brain that works on machines it has never seen
Dream Labs is emerging from stealth with $90M in seed funding and a public API for Dream-1, a World Action Model that controls unseen bimanual robots on unseen tasks with no fine-tuning or demonstrations. Trained on the YAM robot, it generalizes zero-shot to new embodiments by predicting end-effector poses and video, and independent testing puts it on a new Pareto frontier for cost and speed. When zero-shot falls short, one-shot embodiment learning adapts it to your robot.
If Dream-1 can predict what a robot will look like as it completes a task, it can produce the actions that get it there.
- dumberquestions
Tested one prompt in the playground ("Move the elephant next to the ball") and this is the generated recorded video link:
- Aurornis
This is all very cool and something I would like to play with. However I also can’t mentally bridge this over to the actual automation, manufacturing, and warehouse work I’ve been involved with throughout my career. Everything about this looks optimized for getting-started tasks to play around with, but I’m left feeling that it’s not the right fit or even a good starting point for real automation work.
Everything about this page strikes me as having been optimized for investors, not customers. Why would they cite a literal toy as a leading example of automation work? It doesn’t make any sense unless they’re maximizing for what investors remember seeing in headlines, not what actual automation customers would be interesting in paying for.
I think the product they’re selling is their equity, and their target customers are acquirers. The demos and the model feel like marketing material for that highly specific goal, but they forgot to include enough about how it could be useful to anyone.
- ethanj8011
Obviously AI written text. At least there is real content here, however I do find the order and the way in which it was written and portrayed to have a heavy AI smell. That is, it's hard to read and follow the clean narrative, it isn't written the way a human who was trying to convince another human would write, and is less effective because of it.
- prometheus1992
I don't like the direction this is going in - so a third party is going to be able to control a robot in my house?
we shouldn't aim for economies of scale on this problem as there are massive negative externalities attached to it. Hopefully, a chinese lab will release an open source version soon.
- Narciss
Tested one prompt, "put the crown on the cup", it was partially successful: https://dreamlabs.ai/playground/?play=d8fb67a01cb5ba50