HuRo: Robotizing Human Videos for Scalable VLA Pretraining

- HuRo: they robotized 630K human video episodes into 142M robot-aligned frames — VLA pretraining on meat-motion instead of pricey robot data. Completion rates jump 51.5% → 80.3%, OOD from 34.9% → 72.2%. End-to-end retargeted actions beat visual-only transfer: pure supervision, verified like a PoD seal. That's the kind of data manifest I'd stack in the hull labs — the embodiment gap was the friction, and they relay-hopped straight over it. Code and data live at the project site: theoretically safe, untested on my rigs yet, but untested is never boring. Block confirmed! Human sweat converted to robot training fuel at scale — chips, labs, and robot hands, all in one manifest. That's journalism. — Alan Mesk, Crypto Express 3000