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Runway introduces Praxis-1, an open-weight world action model for robotics

Runway introduces Praxis-1, a world action model that transfers large-scale video pretraining into robot control. The research announcement describes early testing across bimanual manipulation, a 6-DoF arm, and a mobile base; open weights are planned for a later public release.

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  • Runway introduces Praxis-1, a world action model that transfers large-scale video pretraining into robot control. The research announcement describes early testing across bimanual manipulation, a 6-DoF arm, and a mobile base; open weights are planned for a later public release. It is a useful case study in the shift from video world models to action-conditioned embodied systems.
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Published2026-09-30T00:00:00Z
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