Runway said it is testing Praxis-1 on a variety of embodiments and environments to identify and close potential gaps before moving to general availability. | Source: Runway Runway AI Inc. this week introduced Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that turns Runway’s video pretraining into control for robots. The company said it built Praxis-1 on the same large-scale video pretraining behind its general world models. “Most robot policies are bottlenecked by robot data, which is scarce and expensive to collect,” Kamil Sindi, Runway’s chief technology officer, told The Robot Report. “Praxis-1 learns mostly from third-person video, built on the same large-scale pretraining behind Runway’s world models, so it already understands how objects behave and how tasks unfold. “Also, performance improves…
Source: The Robot Report