Odyssey Launches Odyssey-3 World Model to Control Robots and Cars via 20 Hour Training

Odyssey-3 is a foundation world model designed to control diverse physical systems including humanoids, robot arms, drones, and autonomous vehicles using a shared understanding of physics. The "Physics Agent" learns world behavior from visual observation and requires minimal task-specific data, including 20 hours of simulated driving data for autonomous vehicle control. Policies for humanoid and robot arm systems used tens of hours of demonstrations to achieve operational control.

The system utilizes a pretrained world model paired with an action decoder to translate general representations into the actions of a specific machine. This design targets the task-specific data bottleneck by spending a high pretraining budget on a general model to avoid relearning knowledge for every new body. Odyssey plans a public release of the model in the coming weeks following the current preview.