Ted Xiao
Every Robotics Weekly story that cites Ted Xiao (@xiao_ted), newest first. 3 stories since September 2026.
On X: Founding Member of Technical Staff @PrometheusInc. Previously Gemini, Robotics @GoogleDeepMind. Posts about frontier models, physical AGI, and scaling.
- RoboColosseum results put Astra on top in 11,398 trials
Five VLA policies and three frontier AI agents ran in the wild, and the eval initiative says the Astra clips on X hold up at scale.
- Machenta exits stealth with $40M and one-demo learning
The robot foundation model was trained without a single pixel of real-world data, the founder says.
Sound like you were at the demo
One email a day. Under three minutes. The demos, the deployments and the part the press release left out.
- Brad Porter backs Eidon's read on the robot data market
The former Scale AI CTO says he lived the data collection treadmill first hand, and it ends the way Eidon's founder described.
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