# General

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## [Welcome to Menlo Community Forum! 👋](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/welcome-to-menlo-community-forum/5)

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**Author:** [@system](https://forum.menlo.ai/u/system)\
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**Last updated:** [March 24, 2026, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/welcome-to-menlo-community-forum/5 "2026-03-24T07:35:10Z")

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We are so glad you joined us. Menlo Community Forum This is the forum for everyone building with Asimov and the Menlo stack. Here are some things you can do to get started: :speaking\_head: Introduce yourself by addi…

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## [About the General category](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/about-the-general-category/3)

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**Author:** [@system](https://forum.menlo.ai/u/system)\
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## [Why Didn't a Better Encoder Produce a Better Robot Policy?](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/why-didnt-a-better-encoder-produce-a-better-robot-policy/62)

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**Author:** [@linus](https://forum.menlo.ai/u/linus)\
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**Last updated:** [November 13, 2026, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/why-didnt-a-better-encoder-produce-a-better-robot-policy/62 "2026-11-13T22:40:37Z")

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Last week we shared that our pretrained encoder learned good representations but didn’t improve downstream policy performance. Our hypothesis was that the issue was the training objective rather than the architecture, so…

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## [Asimov 1 - #002 Take it first step in the world!](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/asimov-1-002-take-it-first-step-in-the-world/50)

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**Author:** [@menlo](https://forum.menlo.ai/u/menlo)\
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**Last updated:** [July 26, 2026, 7:56am UTC](https://forum.menlo.ai/t/asimov-1-002-take-it-first-step-in-the-world/50 "2026-07-26T07:56:49Z")

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So some great new, Asimov 1 - 002 is the third robot ever from Menlo Research that takes its first step in the world. Freshly assembled and roll out from our manufacturer assembly line, takes a look below! We are expe…