Robotics has a data problem, but not the one you’re thinking of: almost all robotics data is of successful instances of robot behaviors. But many of the most exciting research areas for robotics today, including world models and reward model learning, require failures:
Using simulation to teach robots would unblock the massive scale of robotics data that seems to be missing right now. The issue is usually sim-to-real transfer; MolmoBOT aims to solve this with sufficient diversity of simulation data, so that no real data is necessary for robot