Nature Will announces 50B-parameter model for robot-hand control

Tsinghua assistant professor Ning Ding is betting that a model trained on human hand-use video can transfer skills to robot hands without controlling a whole humanoid.

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Natura-1 puts Ning Ding's research-led bet into a robot intelligence layer focused on hands rather than complete humanoids. Its value will depend on reliable transfer to unfamiliar objects and real robot hardware; parameter count alone cannot establish that.

A robotic hand reaches for a ripe tomato beside a human hand in a greenhouse, with a Nature Will sign on the glass.

Nature Will, the physical AI lab led by Tsinghua assistant professor Ning Ding, announced Natura-1 on October 13th, a 50-billion-parameter model built for robot-hand control. Ding's bet is that human video can help robots learn to manipulate unfamiliar objects, narrowing the gap between language-model instructions and physical action.…

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