Essays

System Thinking and Model Thinking in Robot Learning

Both schools are betting on the same variable -- DATA.

May 11 • Joe Dong

Robot Learning Should Be Goal-Driven and Data-First

A goal-driven view on robot learning, industrial deployment, and the data engine needed to scale dexterous robots.

Apr 28 • Joe Dong

π0.7: Prompt Engineering Comes to Robot Foundation Models

π0.7’s key advance is full action context, not just a stronger model—unlocking compositional generalization.

Apr 23 • Joe Dong

NVIDIA EgoScale: Pretraining Dexterous Manipulation with 20,000 Hours of Egocentric Human Data

A simple but important idea: pretrain on large-scale human egocentric data first, then use a small amount of aligned human–robot data and robot…

Apr 14 • Joe Dong

Nvidia DreamZero0: Why World Models May Become Policies

DreamZero0 is not just a stronger robotics benchmark.

Apr 8 • Joe Dong

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