Most Robotic
About
About Most Robotic
Instance’s evaluation system receives video from a physical robot rollout together with a description of the intended task and its subtasks. A learned success detector identifies whether the robot completed the overall objective and which intermediate steps succeeded or failed. The resulting labels attach automatically to repeated policy evaluations, eliminating manual video scoring for every trial.
The software sits inside the development loop between policy deployment and model improvement. Teams run a policy on their own robot, send the recorded episode through Instance and use the structured result to compare checkpoints or identify failure modes. The company’s longer-term roadmap includes a second robot that can restore the test scene between trials, extending the platform from automated scoring toward continuous physical evaluation.
Team
- Lucy Cai - Co-founder and CTO - She leads Instance's autonomous robot-evaluation work, including the success detector and the no-human-in-the-loop loop that judges robot rollouts and resets scenes.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-07-13 - Product Launch - Instance launches robot-policy success detector
Results include detailed captions describing individual subtasks. The company offers a demo that accepts uploaded video or a recording made on a phone. The success judge is the first step toward a planned evaluation rig that also resets the scene between robot trials.
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Context
Context tags
- Simulation software layer - Stack Layer - Instance's robotics role maps to the simulation software layer stack layer.