Across 360 robotics trials, Opus 5.5 averages under $1 per trial, scoring 1.8x as high as Opus 5 at half the cost and roughly matching Astra's mean score at 21% lower cost.
We adapted a subset of RoboDojo tasks using readily available materials. We release this as RoboDojo-RC Tier 1 and publish the bill of materials in our report.
So many important lessons in here.
Robotics is so hot right now, and naturally everyone wants to get in. Data looks like one of the easiest entry points, but in reality it’s an incredibly hard business to operate and scale.
And the window may be much smaller than people think.
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Sam Padilla
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After 2+ years in the robotics data space, we are shutting @Eidon_AI down.
The thesis was right. But the business is brutally hard.
We close this chapter by open-sourcing everything we built and sharing lessons for anyone venturing into the space.
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Robotics Data is a Broken Business
A technical bottleneck does not necessarily imply a good business.
We recently shut down @eidon_ai after 2+ years in the data space.
We started in early 2024 with a gamified multimodal data collection...