Hugging Face (Twitter)

RT @pa_balland: Something big is happening in robotics - and it’s hiding in plain sight.

This post is not about dancing robots but in the data that powers them. Open robotics datasets have exploded this year, turning the field into a more scalable and collaborative ecosystem.

In just two years, @huggingface datasets grew from 11k to over 600k - and robotics is by far the fastest-growing segment. We went from 1k robotics datasets in 2024 to 27k in 2025!

For comparison, text generation, the second-largest category, has only around 5k datasets in 2025. That gap is massive.

Open datasets are important because robotics lives and dies by real-world robot data - video, actions, sensors, failures. By making this data easy to upload, reuse, and benchmark, researchers, startups, and large players are now releasing real-robot datasets that would have stayed locked inside labs just a few years ago.

Major contributors include @nvidia, LeRobot initiative, and...

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