The company has spent the past eight months developing its “foundation model,” called π0 or pi-zero. π0 was trained using huge amounts of data from several types of robots doing various domestic chores. The company often has humans teleoperate the robots to provide the necessary teaching.

Physical Intelligence, also known as PI or π, was founded earlier this year by several prominent robotics researchers to pursue the new robotics approach inspired by breakthroughs in AI’s language abilities.