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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 22, 2026Published at 2:23 AM EDT · New York
Former Nvidia GR00T Researchers Launch Dream Labs With $90 Million and a Public Robot-Control API Priced From $0.75 an Hour
The startup says its Dream-1 "world action model" learns how the world moves from video and controls bimanual robots it has never seen on new tasks without task-specific training, a claim no public benchmark has yet tested.
Four researchers from Nvidia's GR00T robotics project have publicly launched Dream Labs, a company that had operated without public disclosure until now, and opened a public API for its model, Dream-1, AI ML Big Data reports. The founders a…
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