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Jeremy Collins presents COBALT, a cloud-native robot teleoperation system that uses standard smartphones to collect training data

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It demonstrated 150ms latency over a 5,000-mile distance.

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Robots need tons of real examples to learn new skills. But right now, getting good training data is slow and expensive. You usually need experts and special gear. $COBALT changes that. It’s a simple app where anyone can use their regular phone to control robots from anywhere. Just move your phone and the robot follows. Helps collect lots of clean data fast and cheap. I’ve been following it for a while and it’s one of the more practical ideas I’ve seen for scaling robot learning.

10:15 AM · Jun 3, 2026

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Many users praised the $COBALT token launch because trading fees would fund development and community-driven data collection for the smartphone robot teleoperation platform.

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Animesh Garg@animesh_garg·1hQuote tweet
So we just used COBALT for unsupervised remote teleop from Vienna to Atlanta. - The infra adds only 150ms delay on a conference grade wifi network (everyone knows its not the best!) - No Supervision on the robot side (it was 3am in Atlanta!) - Most importantly, no more special devices needed. If you can take a video call, then you can provide robot interventions on demand!
Jeremy Collins @ ICRA 2026@jerthesquare_·5hView on
Come to our ICRA poster (238) to teleop robots 5k miles away (Vienna->Atlanta) with only 150 ms latency!