Runway AI
Video-generation company extending its large-scale video-pretrained world models into robot control. In October 2026 it released Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model that learns mostly from third-person video, sidestepping the scarce and expensive robot-data bottleneck.
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- Founded
- 2018
- Ticker
- Unlisted
- Website
- https://runwayml.com ↗
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Praxis-1 is built on the same large-scale video pretraining behind Runway's general world models. "Most robot policies are bottlenecked by robot data, which is scarce and expensive to collect," CTO Kamil Sindi said; "Praxis-1 learns mostly from third-person video." Runway is testing it across embodiments and environments to close gaps before general availability — the latest move putting video-generation pretraining behind robot policies.
Source ↗Sources: MechAwakening '2026 China Humanoid Company List' (2026-08) and public industry research; A-share tickers limited to high-confidence names.
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