Pantograph

Pantograph is a research lab and public benefit corporation based in San Francisco, California, working on generally intelligent robots. Its approach rests on simple, scalable methods: training general models on internet-scale video and deploying them on the company's own fleet of affordable robots. The lab's stated view is that the path to capable robots runs through general intelligence rather than narrow, robot-specific skills.

Technical work spans large-scale model training, multimodal representation learning, reinforcement learning, video-based pretraining, data processing and evaluation infrastructure. Training draws on enormous and diverse datasets, including video games, real-world video and data from the company's own robot fleet. On the hardware side, the first-generation robot, Pandroid, is designed as a durable tool built to survive thousands of hours of real-world operation, and serves both as a deployment platform and a data source.

Pantograph publishes frequent capability reports and makes models available for other groups to experiment with, reflecting an emphasis on transparency and openness. The company also advocates the early and deep diffusion of robotics capabilities into society, on the view that this improves societal readiness and surfaces problems sooner. Internally, it favours usable, pragmatic products and the simplest solutions that solve problems effectively.