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THOR Group@THORMachines

16 seconds of someone unloading a dishwasher. A THOR miner turns that footage into a structured record: eight actions, each with a start and end time. At scale, labels like these become training and evaluation data for robots. Action labelling is THOR’s first task type. Every THOR task is built to the customer’s brief, and work is checked before delivery.

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THOR Group@THORMachines

“Model training is not hard. But I need a lot of data… to train my robots.” We hear this from robotics labs constantly. Software AI learned from the internet. Robots must learn from the real world, where usable data is still scarce. That’s why THOR starts with data.

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On-chainChild keys112SN1126d ago

Validator FirstTensor.com (5DvT…N2ed) scheduled a child-key change on 42 subnets

Validator hotkey 5DvTpiniW9s3APmHRYn8FroUWyfnLtrsid5Mtn5EwMXHN2ed announced new child keys on SN6, SN8, SN9, SN14, SN20, SN29, SN30, SN35, SN37, SN38, SN41, SN44 and 30 more, applying at block 9,431,952 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.

ValidatorFirstTensor.comSubnetsSN6, SN8, SN9, SN14, SN20, SN29, SN30, SN35, SN37, SN38, SN41, SN44, … (42 subnets)

Between blocks 9,424,713 and 9,424,772

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On-chainChild keys112SN1127d ago

Validator K8STAKE.AI (5EtU…tvzs) scheduled a child-key change on 11 subnets

Validator hotkey 5EtUYRu7sFqs9obCrN6JSNTnAAcpk98oJ27YV2EF9gC4tvzs announced new child keys on SN12, SN15, SN18, SN22, SN33, SN45, SN81, SN100, SN112, SN117, SN123, applying at block 9,425,221 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.

ValidatorK8STAKE.AISubnetsSN12, SN15, SN18, SN22, SN33, SN45, SN81, SN100, SN112, SN117, SN123

Between blocks 9,418,012 and 9,418,072

THOR Group@THORMachines

THOR Signals · Capital @Figure_robot tried to buy robot training data. Vendors couldn’t hit the throughput, diversity or quality it needed. So it built its own pipeline, and in August committed $1B+ to data and compute over 12 months. Meanwhile, data suppliers are raising: → @MeckaAI: $60M Series B led by Sequoia, with Nvidia and M12 joining. → @MaxinsightsAI: $30M seed led by Peak XV. 2M+ hours of human activity video captured, with 1.5M rated “model-ready” under its internal scoring system. As more capital flows into collection, more data needs verifying, and that’s where things slip. Pantheon audited 3,546 episodes across nine open robotics datasets and found 27% had at least one medium or high severity issue. That's open data, not these suppliers’, but it shows how easily problems get through. Figure’s answer: keep filtering, fraud review and deduplication in-house. Our view: an open market for robotics data needs verification buyers trust enough to cut back their own checking. THOR’s pilot is testing whether independent verification can match buyers’ own quality calls, and cut the time they spend checking.

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THOR Group@THORMachines

Per Scale’s paper, FineART’s subtask training raised success from 32% to 100% on one spatial task. Building that dataset took three teams: one to collect, one to annotate, one to verify. Many labs can’t staff three teams. They need open infrastructure that can do that work. twitter.com/1982820353622884352/status/21158377…

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In collaboration with @HuggingFace, we’ve released the largest open robot dataset, alongside their first open System 1-System 2 model that can reason over step-by-step actions. FineART is built with 40K+ demonstrations across 151 tasks and 500K subtask labels. Together, the dataset and model were designed for each other, and both are available on @LeRobotHF where robotics developers work today.

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THOR Group@THORMachines

“The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard.” Steven Pinker, 1994 Robots still struggle with what a toddler does without thinking. THOR is building the data network to help them learn.

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THOR Group@THORMachines

If everyone has access to better AI models, what do contributors compete on? How well they use them. Models like GPT-6 Astra and NVIDIA’s Flora are getting much better at labelling robotics video. NVIDIA estimates inference compute costs below $1 per hour of footage for Flora. But customer-ready data has to meet timing, description and quality requirements. Verification and rework carry costs too. On Bittensor Subnet 112, THOR is designed to tie rewards to verified output, giving contributors an incentive to improve their models, tools and workflows. A better workflow raises the bar for everyone. The test for THOR is whether that competition delivers reliable robotics training data at a lower total cost. Better AI expands what’s possible. Competition makes it count.

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THOR Group@THORMachines

Robotics will scale one deployment at a time: one robot, one task, one environment. And each can expose edge cases the training data never covered. THOR is building an open marketplace for annotation and verification to cover them, so training keeps pace with deployment.

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When is the ChatGPT moment for robotics? Some say it's happened, some say it's coming. How capable are Physical AI models today? What does the adoption curve for robotics look like? We've talked to most of the major players and make sense of it here robostrategy.co/news/the-chatgpt-moment-for-rob…

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On-chainChild keys112SN11214d ago

Validator Openτensor Foundaτion (5G3w…5KP3) scheduled a child-key change on 26 subnets

Validator hotkey 5G3wMP3g3d775hauwmAZioYFVZYnvw6eY46wkFy8hEWD5KP3 announced new child keys on SN17, SN20, SN24, SN29, SN39, SN44, SN47, SN48, SN52, SN56, SN61, SN63 and 14 more, applying at block 9,374,755 (~24h). Stake delegated to it there routes through its children after that.

ValidatorOpenτensor FoundaτionSubnetsSN17, SN20, SN24, SN29, SN39, SN44, SN47, SN48, SN52, SN56, SN61, SN63, … (26 subnets)

Between blocks 9,367,539 and 9,367,598