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PokeBot has launched RoboAPI, allowing owners of 5 supported robotic arms to control the arms via natural language commands. The API is powered by PokeBot's world action model Poke-Aurora and works similarly to text LLM APIs: images from the robotic arm's camera are uploaded to PokeBot's servers, Poke-Aurora returns actions, and the robotic arm executes them at 30Hz. According to Rohan Paul, users do not need to separately collect data and train for each task; between tasks, they only need to change the instruction, which he considers progress toward zero-shot robots. A follow-up report by Testing Catalog stated that after users connect a supported robotic arm with a wrist camera and give a task such as "clean the table," RoboAPI returns the next action in near real time. There are currently no further developments.
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PokeBot's RoboAPI lets 5 supported robotic arms send commands
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Oct 31
Testing Catalog
PokeBot Launches RoboAPI Public API, Enabling Robotic Arms to Perform New Tasks Without Specialized Training
PokeBot has launched the RoboAPI public API, enabling robotic arms to perform new tasks without collecting data or training task-specific models. After users connect a supported robotic arm with a wrist camera and give a task such as "clean the table," RoboAPI returns the next action in near real time. The API is powered by PokeBot's world-action model Poke-Aurora and can issue natural-language instructions to compatible robots through a simple API.
Oct 30
Rohan Paul
PokeBot Launches RoboAPI, Using API Calls to Poke-Aurora to Control Robotic Arms
PokeBot has launched RoboAPI, driven by the world-action model Poke-Aurora. It supports five compatible robotic arms in executing tasks via natural language instructions, without the need to collect data and train separately for each task. It works similarly to a text LLM API: camera images from the robotic arm are uploaded to PokeBot's servers, Poke-Aurora returns actions, and the robotic arm executes them at 30Hz. Rohan Paul believes this is progress toward zero-shot robotics, where only the instructions need to change between tasks.
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