Dream-1

00:00 / 01:59 Launch video Give Dream-1 a new bimanual robot with parallel grippers, connect it to our API, and it can start performing tasks out of the box. No fine-tuning, no demonstrations from that robot, and no machine learning expertise required. This is an important step toward general-purpose robot intelligence. Today, Dream Labs is also coming out of stealth with $90M in seed funding and making Dream-1 available to people all around the world through a public API. 01Breaking the chicken-and-egg problem Robotics' chicken-and-egg problem. For decades, robotics has been stuck in a chicken-and-egg problem: a robot needs to be useful before people want to buy it, but making it useful requires data from that exact robot, and that data only exists once enough people start using it. Dream-1 is our first step toward breaking that loop. Self-driving found a way around this cold-start problem. Cars were useful from day one with zero autonomy, so millions of people drove them every day and generated the data needed to train increasingly capable models. Most other robots never had that advantage. Two things are changing that. First, robot hardware is getting cheap enough to reach far more people. A capable bimanual arm setup can now cost as little as $2k1. Second, a robot may no longer need a large dataset of its own before it can be useful. If a model can generalize zero-shot to unseen environments, tasks, and even robots, a new robot can start with useful capabilities. Put those together and the flywheel can finally start. Cheaper hardware puts more robots into the world. Generalizable models make those robots useful earlier. Useful robots generate more data, and that data makes the models better for the next robot. 02The Cambrian explosion of cheap, affordable robots Dream Labs enabled robots. Robot hardware is getting cheap faster than anyone expected. See the robots above, where 7 semi-humanoid robots cost less than $15k, a price tier that barely existed a year ago. At the far end of the price curve, Hugging Face's $399 Microduck sold more than 10,000 units within 4 days of its launch in late August2. We believe the robotics take-off will start with robots like these. $2,000a bimanual arm setupA capable two-arm setup, as of today. 7semi-humanoids under $15kWheels, two arms, parallel grippers; a tier that barely existed a year ago. $399Hugging Face MicroduckLaunched late August. 10,000+Microducks in 4 daysSold within four days of …