great article, congrats!
interesting that their physical prompting can to be done both with egocentric and teleop approaches. curious how they compare in terms of resulting quality @SkildAI
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egocentric video is turning into robotics' pretraining corpus - what web text was for llms. dyna-2's own ablations already treat action-labeled hours as the scarce axis: 50k, against 1M hours of video.
most of the work worth capturing for robotics (factories, labs, kitchens) happens in gloves. so i put some gloves on egocentric training data using gemini omni video to see if hand extraction survives it.
- nitrile gloves: tracking looks perfect, but the extracted wrist rotation (the action a robot would learn to copy) is 3.5x more wrong.
- black work gloves: the hand simply isn't found in roughly 1/5 of frames.
- leather work gloves: tracking misses half the time.
Dyna-2 training data pipeline is based on a similar extraction, so the quality of the robotics action models depends on it.
how: egodex clips with various tasks where wilor (the detector extraction stacks build on) tracks ~100% of frames. a video edit adds the gloves; nothing else changes - same hands, same task, same camera. regenerating clips unchanged costs 0.1% coverage and 3.3 degrees of wrist rotation, so it's the gloves, not the edit.
n is small (10 videos, one detector) - so that's an early signal and needs replication at scale.