RAPID teaches robots from one demo

🔥 What happened MIT researchers dropped RAPID: a coding agent that turns a single human video demo into a working robot program. The agent generates, tests, and refines code in an iterative loop – fully autonomously. 💡 Why it matters Instead of tediously demonstrating every motion, RAPID extracts the underlying strategy and generalizes across object shape, material, and environment. It was tested on eight contact-rich nonprehensile tasks plus LIBERO-Pro – and successfully deployed on a real Franka arm. ⚡ Our take This is the moment robotics jumps from "show me everything" to "show me once." Anyone still hoarding motion-tracking datasets just lost the plot.