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Jitendra Malik (tweeted 2026-06-19) argued that open datasets and models drove…

2026-06-19 · 00:04 UTC ·@JitendraMalikCV ·0 min read

Brief

Jitendra Malik highlighted that open datasets and models catalyzed breakthroughs in computer vision and suggested robotics could benefit similarly. Ritvik Singh unveiled 'ABC', an open platform delivering the largest teleop dataset to date plus code/infrastructure, and published extensive analyses of architecture/design decisions, pretraining strategies, and post-training techniques, with collaborators Arthur Allshire, Cinnabar233, Adam Rasb, Redstone_Hong, and David R. McAll.

Why it matters

Jitendra Malik (tweeted 2026-06-19) argued that open datasets and models drove major progress in computer vision and expressed the same hope for robotics.

Key details

  • Ritvik Singh announced 'ABC'—an open-data, training, and infrastructure effort for robotics that releases the largest teleoperation (teleop) dataset to date and reports systematic experiments on design choices, pretraining, and post-training; co-authors/mentions include @arthurallshire, @Cinnabar233, @adamrasb, @redstone_hong, and @davidrmcall.
Source evidence

In computer vision, the field advanced significantly due to openly available datasets and models; hope this will be true in robotics as well.

Ritvik Singh (@ritvik_singh9)

Introducing ABC: open data, training, and infrastructure for robotics.

We release the largest teleop dataset to date, and extensively investigate design decisions, pretraining, and post-training techniques.

@arthurallshire @Cinnabar233 @adamrasb @redstone_hong @davidrmcall

Video

— https://nitter.net/ritvik_singh9/status/2067281136179642804#m