Engineering Blog
Introducing the Sidekick API
One endpoint for every robotics foundation model, and a Python client, sidekick-sdk, built to run on the robot instead of in a data center.
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An Update on the Sidekick Flywheel
The Sidekick Flywheel nearly tripled task success on towel folding, lifting the success rate from 18.0% to 51.5%.
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Emergent Capability
Sidekick's First Emergent Capability
In a self-improving robot-learning loop, data-generation throughput rose as an emergent, unrewarded byproduct of reinforcement learning.
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Out of the Loop
Token Fusion's first application: learning in deployment, without a person watching.
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Sidekick Token Fusion
A frozen vision-language model already understands the scene. We take that understanding and fuse it into how our robots learn and act.
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🔁 Sidekick Learning Loop
Introducing the Sidekick Learning Loop - Reinforcement Learning in the Real World.
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Research
💬 PromptVLA
An open challenge to map the behaviors and limits of prompted Vision Language Action models.
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Engineering Blog
🤝 Sidekick GPU Handshake
How we solved the compute war inside the robot to achieve 70x faster performance.
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✍️ RLHF for Robots
Building the reinforcement learning feedback loop that transformed language models, now for physical robots.
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Latest News
Story
A New Labor Workforce Where Everyone Wins
Flexibility meets abundance in the world Sidekick Robotics is building
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Press Release
Sidekick Robotics Featured in Stanford Report on AI Innovation
Stanford GSB highlights Sidekick as the sole robotics company at Demo Day 2025.
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Foundation Model Research
Leading Professor Sergey Levine Validates Sidekick Robotics Technical Strategy
Algorithm layer delivers 95%+ reliability vs 80% from foundation models alone.
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Technical Commentary
Robot Learning: Teaching Robots to Adapt and Improve
How AI is transforming robotics from pre-programmed machines to adaptive systems.
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Industry News
New McKinsey Research: Closing the Healthcare Worker Gap Could Add $1.1 Trillion to Global Economy
Healthcare workforce crisis demands bold action.
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Announcement
Sidekick Robotics Unveils Customer Promise: 'The AI & Robotics Company You Can Trust' and Invites Customer Pilots
Every hero has a sidekick: dependable, supportive, and ready when it matters most.
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AI Update
Sidekick Robotics Reaches Milestone in Robot Learning
We're pushing the frontier of how robots learn from humans. Sharing a milestone in our journey to make learning-from-experts work in the real world.
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Technical Commentary
Sidekick Robotics Defines Long Horizon Dexterous Reasoning™
The unsolved problem in robotics research that will unlock human-level physical task execution.
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Press Release
Sidekick Robotics Relocates Headquarters from Stanford, CA to Los Angeles, CA
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