{"slug": "pokebot-opens-roboapi-to-test-natural-language-control-on-robot-arms", "title": "PokeBot opens RoboAPI to test natural-language control on robot arms", "summary": "PokeBot, founded by Tsinghua University robotics researcher Huazhe Xu, is opening access to RoboAPI, a service that lets developers issue natural-language instructions to compatible robot arms through an API, with registration beginning October 30th and free access during the technical preview. The release is designed to test whether Poke-Aurora's shared wrist-camera setup reduces adaptation work across several robot-arm configurations, and PokeBot says developer use can reveal where the model works and where it fails.", "body_md": "# PokeBot opens RoboAPI to test natural-language control on robot arms\n\n**Founder Huazhe Xu is putting Poke-Aurora in developers' hands, with a wrist-camera setup designed to transfer across several robot-arm configurations.**\n\n        By [RuntimeWire Staff](https://runtimewire.com/author/runtimewire-staff)\n        · Published \n\nPrimary source: [Aligned News — AI Intelligence](https://x.com/PokeBot_Global/status/2115864111192096934)\n\n## Why it matters\n\nRoboAPI gives developers a way to test whether Poke-Aurora's shared setup reduces adaptation work across robot arms. Their use can help reveal where the model works and where it fails.\n\n[Huazhe Xu](https://www.sqz.ac.cn/en/artificial-66?ref=runtimewire), the Tsinghua University robotics researcher who founded [PokeBot](https://pokebot.com/ai?ref=runtimewire), is opening access to [RoboAPI](https://platform.pokebot.com/?ref=runtimewire), a service that lets developers give compatible robot arms natural-language instructions through an API. PokeBot says [registration](https://platform.pokebot.com/?ref=runtimewire) begins October 30th, with free access during the technical preview.…\n\nWhen you purchase through links in our articles, [we may earn a small commission](https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards). This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pokebot-opens-roboapi-to-test-natural-language-control-on-robot-arms", "canonical_source": "https://runtimewire.com/article/pokebot-roboapi-robot-control-preview", "published_at": "2026-10-30 00:06:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-30 03:18:22.781313+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "ai-agents", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["PokeBot", "RoboAPI", "Poke-Aurora", "Huazhe Xu", "Tsinghua University"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pokebot-opens-roboapi-to-test-natural-language-control-on-robot-arms", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pokebot-opens-roboapi-to-test-natural-language-control-on-robot-arms.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pokebot-opens-roboapi-to-test-natural-language-control-on-robot-arms.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pokebot-opens-roboapi-to-test-natural-language-control-on-robot-arms.jsonld"}}