PokeBot launches RoboAPI, an API that gives robot arms natural-language instructions

PokeBot introduced RoboAPI on October 29, powered by Poke-Aurora, which it calls its world-action model. It says compatible robots can take natural-language instructions through a simple API, with no task-specific training.

According to the testingcatalog account on X, a user connects a supported arm with a wrist-mounted camera, gives it a task such as "clean the table", and RoboAPI sends back the arm's next moves in near real time. Poke-Aurora predicts what the camera will see next along with the arm's next moves. The same account says the technical preview is free and non-commercial, and that supported arms include the UR5e, Franka and YAM.

These are PokeBot's claims; the post links a demo video and the company urges readers to try it themselves.