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ScaleNav: Scalable Internet Video Pretraining for Language-Conditioned Local Navigation
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GITHUB · launched Oct 18, 2026 · 40 upvotes (top 32%) · 0 views
Niche: computer vision software and models · 225 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -45% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Model & infra
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No This is a research system that trains a Diffusion Transformer on internet video and simulated robot trajectories, then deploys it on a real quadruped. Reproducing it needs ML research expertise, large-scale training compute, simulators, and robot hardware.
What it would actually take: The architecture is a shared video-plus-action diffusion transformer pretrained on egocentric internet video, then aligned and fine-tuned on simulated navigation trajectories. Building it means training at scale on large video corpora, setting up Habitat-style simulation, and integrating a real legged robot. That requires a research team, GPU clusters, and robotics hardware.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1680 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #525 of 1681 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.
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- worldflow · github · 2026-10-29 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- OmniVChat · github · 2026-09-18 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- frameweaver · github · 2026-10-14 · 58 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- kandinsky-6 · github · 2026-10-05 · 242 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- BeefTV · github · 2026-09-24 · 333 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- DASA · github · 2026-10-13 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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