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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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Engineering Blog

✍️ RLHF for Robots

Building the reinforcement learning feedback loop that transformed language models, now for physical robots.

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Latest News

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A New Labor Workforce Where Everyone Wins

Flexibility meets abundance in the world Sidekick Robotics is building

For the first time in modern history, both the organization and the worker is set to win. We're not replacing human workers, we're creating an entirely new labor market where robotic labor and human expertise combine to usher in an era of abundance.

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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.

Stanford Graduate School of Business features Sidekick Robotics in their report on how the school is staying competitive with AI, recognizing us as the only embodied intelligence company showcased 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.

Professor Sergey Levine (UC Berkeley, co-founder of Physical Intelligence) confirmed that training VLAs with reinforcement learning—what Sidekick does—remains the cutting edge for commercial deployment.

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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.

Robot learning sits at the intersection of robotics and artificial intelligence, enabling robots to acquire new skills and adapt to novel situations rather than relying solely on pre-programmed instructions.

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Our Story

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Our Origin Story: Why Robotics for Caregiving

From Stanford dorm room to the future of physical AI.

Two Stanford students discovered a shared vision in 2025 that would become Sidekick Robotics—building the AI Sidekick for Physical Work.

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The Next Chapter: Building for the Economy of Motion

Expanding beyond healthcare to transform physical automation across industries.

Physical labor constrains cost and quality across industries. Sidekick is building a general-purpose AI platform for physical work that scales broadly.

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More Updates

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.

Our promise: The AI & Robotics Company You Can Trust™. We're opening our Customer Pilot Program to partner with communities in shaping the next generation of robotics.

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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.

Our robot's behavior is now nearly indistinguishable from expert demonstrations in simulation! This week, our team got Sidekick 1.0's algorithm to imitate an expert benchmark at 95% fidelity - leading our physical AI agent to cross a major milestone in robot learning.

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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.

We're introducing Long Horizon Dexterous Reasoning™ as the definitive term for this breakthrough capability because this represents the next major frontier in robotics research. The field is converging on this challenge, and we believe this terminology will be adopted broadly as teams tackle the problem.

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Press Release

Sidekick Robotics Relocates Headquarters from Stanford, CA to Los Angeles, CA

Sidekick Robotics today announced that it has officially relocated its headquarters from Stanford, California to Los Angeles, California. This strategic move reflects both the company's roots and its vision for the future.

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