Robotics deep dive: THE GPT MOMENT FOR ROBOTS?
Two labs, six days apart, taught a robot a new task from one demonstration.
No training, no fine-tuning.
You demonstrate, it replicates.
Generalist's GEN-1.5 (Aug 19) proved it works: one short robot demo, 3 to 12 seconds, 59% success on the first try.
Skild's S1 (Aug 25) proved it scales: 10 minute tasks it had never seen, from one video, and that one video does the work of about 380 recorded training demos.
Caveat: no weights, no API, nothing reproduced outside either lab.
Two impressive demos, but still private companies' claims.
If it truly generalizes, programming a robot becomes prompting one.
Hence the "GPT moment for robotics".