
Integrated tools for robot learning workflows could lower barriers for teams wanting to build and operate autonomous systems at scale.
A workflow combines three tools to streamline robot learning: recording robot demonstrations into storage, training on that data by streaming it directly rather than downloading it first, and deploying the trained policy back to hardware. The continuous loop reduces redundant data transfers by using byte-level deduplication, so only changed information syncs between recording, training, and deployment stages. The dataset format remains consistent throughout the process, allowing the same robot object to both record demonstrations and read them back for training without format conversion. This approach enables a single agent to manage the full cycle of collecting robot data, improving policies iteratively, and returning updated models to the hardware in a sustainable way.

The Robot Report Podcast · How Protolabs turns CAD files into parts in under 24 hours Marc Kermisch, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Protolabs. Marc Kermisch is the chief technology and AI officer at Protolabs. He leads the Maple Plain, Minn.-based company‘s global technology organization, overseeing its software product development, digital manufacturing platform evolution, and enterprise-wide artificial intelligence and research & development strategies. Kermisch also focuses on

Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggle off a new "Media watermark" setting in Gemini and Google's AI video generator, Flow. When toggled off, Google will remove the "sparkle" watermark that appears in the bottom-right corner of content generated with the company's Nano Banana and Omni models. Though visible watermarks are now optional, AI-generated content will have invisible

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.
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