TL;DR: Enact helps teams deploy robots that work in the real world. We roll out policies, generate failure / recovery data, and run in-house evaluations so robots can complete real tasks in production. 

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The Problem

Robotics models can look flawless in choreographed demos and still fail when an object slips, the scene shifts, or the robot makes an early mistake. Those failures push the policy into states its training data never taught it to recover from. Robotics models must train on edge cases to be reliable in the real world.

What We Built

Enact turns a policy’s failures into targeted recovery datasets for teams training robotics models. We use the data to fine-tune models and run real-world evaluations, verifying our data improves reliability.

We’re already serving our first customers: finding where their robots fail and collecting the targeted recovery data needed to make them robust.

• Roll out an existing model on a physical robot.
• Identify recurring failure states.
• Recreate those states and demonstrate how to recover.
• Retrain with the new trajectories added in.
• Repeat

Targeted recovery data pushes success rates above 99%.

On our controlled packing task using pi0.5 on the YAM 6DoF arms:

• 200 ordinary expert demonstrations: 90/100 successful physical rollouts
• 250 ordinary expert demonstrations (more of the same data): 89/100
• 200 expert demonstrations plus 50 targeted recovery demonstrations: 99/100

We’re continuing to longer-horizon tasks such as industrial kitting, lab automation, and electronics recycling

Longer-horizon tasks need substantially more base and recovery data, but the loop is the same: find failures, target missing behaviors, retrain, repeat.

Who We Are

We’re James Stevens and Govind Chada, and we met at Stanford. Govind researched real-world robot adaptation in Chelsea Finn’s IRIS Lab and co-developed recovery methods published at top robotics conferences. Together, we built Enact’s in-house data and evaluation operation and are already serving robotics teams. We started Enact to make robotics models work reliably outside the lab.

Our Ask

Training a robot foundation model or deploying a policy that fails on a real task? Tell us the model, task, and where it breaks, and we’ll make it work.

Email: founders@enact.company