{"@attributes":{"version":"2.0"},"channel":{"title":"Posts on Elvis Nava","link":"https:\/\/www.elvisnava.com\/posts\/","description":"Recent content in Posts on Elvis Nava","image":{"title":"Elvis Nava","url":"https:\/\/www.elvisnava.com\/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E","link":"https:\/\/www.elvisnava.com\/%3Clink%20or%20path%20of%20image%20for%20opengraph,%20twitter-cards%3E"},"generator":"Hugo -- gohugo.io","language":"en-us","lastBuildDate":"Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0200","item":[{"title":"Video-Action Models: Are video model backbones the future of VLAs?","link":"https:\/\/www.elvisnava.com\/posts\/2026_01_06_video_backbones\/","pubDate":"Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0200","guid":"https:\/\/www.elvisnava.com\/posts\/2026_01_06_video_backbones\/","description":"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!\nPreface Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) have taken the robotics world by storm over the past two years."},{"title":"Robotics in the era of the Scaling Hypothesis","link":"https:\/\/www.elvisnava.com\/posts\/2024_10_29_scaling_hypothesis\/","pubDate":"Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:01:00 +0200","guid":"https:\/\/www.elvisnava.com\/posts\/2024_10_29_scaling_hypothesis\/","description":"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.\nPreface It was mid-2021 and I had just begun my PhD at ETH Zurich when I came across a blog post titled \u201cThe Scaling Hypothesis\u201d."}]}}