Runway Turns Video Into Robot Brains

🔥 What happened Runway unveiled Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that turns large-scale video pretraining into real robot control. Early partners like Noble Machines and Standard Bots are testing it on their own hardware, with a public open-weight release planned for the coming months. 💡 Why it matters Simulating policies inside the world model hits 0.95 correlation with real-world results — beating pricier 3D reconstruction. Web video matches teleop data on final placement error (16.1 vs. 16.0 cm), and video is effectively infinite. ⚡ Our take This is the language-model moment for robotics: scale beats data collection. Anyone still hoarding teleop demos will lose to whoever scrapes YouTube fastest.