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XDOF x UC Berkeley AI Research Lab

XDOF partnered with UC Berkeley's AI Research lab to release ABC-130K, the largest open-source bimanual robot manipulation dataset, including 130,000 trajectories, 300 hours of simulation, and 100 hours of evaluations

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Type
development
Status
Activeoperating
Announced
2026-06-17
3 months ago
Start
2026-06-17
3 months ago
Active for
3 months

Who’s involved

XDOFco developer

Physical AI data infrastructure startup building teleoperation systems, data pipelines, and annotation tools for robot training data. Founded October 2024 by Philipp Wu (CEO, former UC Berkeley PhD), Fred Shentu (CTO), and Nemo Jin (COO). The company emerged from stealth in June 2026 with $70M in funding from [Thrive capital](/companies/thrive-capital), Spark Capital, a16z, Lux, and WndrCo. Has ~60 employees and 20 customers including several frontier AI labs. Plans to build its own wearable sensors for human task data collection.

HQSan Francisco, CAwww.xdof.ai1 partnerships

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  • UC Berkeley AI Research Lab · co developer

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  1. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/collecting-robot-training-data-is-dirty-unglamorous-work-some-ai-labs-are-already-paying-xdof-to-do-it/

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