https://www.elvisnava.com/posts/ Recent content in Posts on Elvis Nava https://www.elvisnava.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E https://www.elvisnava.com/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://www.elvisnava.com/posts/2026_01_06_video_backbones/ Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0200 https://www.elvisnava.com/posts/2026_01_06_video_backbones/ This blog post is about mimic-video, our latest mimic release in which we instantiate a new class of Video-Action Models (VAM), grounding robotic policies in pretrained video models. We argue that video model backbones can be a much more natural choice for robotics foundation model pre-training compared to VLM backbones. Do you want to work with us on this and more? We just raised $16M and are actively hiring! Preface Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) have taken the robotics world by storm over the past two years. https://www.elvisnava.com/posts/2024_10_29_scaling_hypothesis/ Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:01:00 +0200 https://www.elvisnava.com/posts/2024_10_29_scaling_hypothesis/ This piece is my attempt to collect my thoughts on the current landscape in AI and Robotics, how this informs our approach at mimic in our quest towards solving general-purpose robotic dexterity, and what I think the future of the field will look like. Are you excited about this as well? We are hiring. Preface It was mid-2021 and I had just begun my PhD at ETH Zurich when I came across a blog post titled “The Scaling Hypothesis”.