Daniel Ho
Director of Evaluations at 1X who leads work on world-model-based policies and evaluation for humanoid robots, with prior experience at Google and Waymo focusing on robotics and planning.
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Feb 4, 2026 • 55min
Ep#61: 1x World Model
Daniel Ho, Director of Evaluations at 1X who builds world-model-based control for humanoid robots. He describes using internet and egocentric videos as imagined worlds to generate zero-shot robot behaviors. The conversation covers how prompts and action labels guide imagined rollouts, training recipes across web/ego/robot data, evaluation with learned simulators, and challenges like contact-rich tasks and latency.
