Digit Leaves the Lab: The Real Lesson of 500 Demonstrations

Embodied AI 101 · Oct 4, 2026 · 29m · transcript

An end-to-end policy trained on ~500 teleoperation demonstrations combined with a sim-based whole-body controller achieves 80–90% success on unseen, chaotic real-world environments without any zero-shot fine-tuning. Demonstrates strong generalization of learned manipulation policies on a full humanoid platform.