"Inside, the space is a giant concrete box made slightly less austere by a haphazard sprawl of long blonde-wood tables. Some are clearly meant for lunch, dotted with Girl Scout cookie boxes, jars of Vegemite (someone here is Australian), and small wire baskets stuffed with one too many condiments. The rest of the tables tell a different story entirely. Many more of them are laden with monitors, spare robotics parts, tangles of black wire, and fully assembled robotic arms"
"During my visit, one arm is folding a pair of black pants, or trying to. It's not going well. Another is attempting to turn a shirt inside out with the kind of determination that suggests it will eventually succeed, just not today. A third - this one seems to have found its calling - is quickly peeling a zucchini, after which it is supposed to deposit the shavings into a separate container. The shavings are going well, at least."
A San Francisco robotics headquarters is marked only by a subtly different-colored pi symbol on the door. The interior is a large concrete room filled with long blonde-wood tables used for lunches and engineering work. Tables hold cookies, Vegemite, monitors, spare parts, wires, and multiple robotic arms attempting everyday tasks. One arm struggles to fold pants, another tries to turn a shirt inside out, and a third peels zucchini successfully. The company trains general-purpose robotic foundation models by collecting data from these stations and from warehouses and homes, iteratively returning new models to stations for testing and refinement.
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