Comment by D-Machine

> e.g. achieving in a non-simulated environment complex tasks or simple tasks in novel environments

I think one could probably argue "yes", to "simple tasks in novel environments". This stuff is super new though.

Note the "Planning" and "Robot Manipulation" parts of V-JEPA 2: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.09985:

> Planning: We demonstrate that V-JEPA 2-AC, obtained by post-training V-JEPA 2 with only 62 hours of unlabeled robot manipulation data from the popular Droid dataset, can be deployed in new environments to solve prehensile manipulation tasks using planning with given subgoals. Without training on any additional data from robots in our labs, and without any task-specific training or reward, the model successfully handles prehensile manipulation tasks, such as Grasp and Pick-and-Place with novel objects and in new environments.