HYDRA-0: ACTION FLOW FOR GENERALIST WORLD MODELING AND CONTROL

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Hydra-0 is a generalist world model that translates physical robot commands into pixel motion trajectories termed "action flow". Operating as a hybrid simulator, it pairs physics engines for robot kinematics with a learned generative video model to predict complex scene reactions like deformable materials and fluid interactions. This shared visual abstraction eliminates the need for custom coordinate remapping across different embodiments, making cross-platform policy training and sim-to-real evaluation significantly more efficient.