PokeBot opens RoboAPI to test natural-language control on robot arms

Founder Huazhe Xu is putting Poke-Aurora in developers' hands, with a wrist-camera setup designed to transfer across several robot-arm configurations.

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Primary source: Aligned News — AI Intelligence

Why it matters

RoboAPI gives developers a way to test whether Poke-Aurora's shared setup reduces adaptation work across robot arms. Their use can help reveal where the model works and where it fails.

A white robotic arm grips a wooden block as a person taps a tablet reading “Pick up the block and place it here”; a wooden box sits on the table.

Huazhe Xu, the Tsinghua University robotics researcher who founded PokeBot, is opening access to RoboAPI, a service that lets developers give compatible robot arms natural-language instructions through an API. PokeBot says registration begins October 30th, with free access during the technical preview.…

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