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ResearchSep 17, 2026

The Training Data That Helps Robots Keep Their Skills

A new Stanford and Toyota Research Institute study shows how carefully selected examples can help robots learn new tasks while retaining earlier skills. For data teams, the important question is which distinctions those examples preserve.

ResearchSep 2, 2026

The Video Shows You Something. The Answer Is Somewhere Else.

An 8B model went from 9.6% to 57.7%. The difference wasn't a bigger model. It learned how to research.