Odyssey unveiled Odyssey-3 on Sept. 15, 2026, an artificial intelligence model the company says can control robot arms, power humanoid robots, drive a car, pilot drones and even play video games. Robots are usually trained for one narrow job at a time, often on enormous amounts of task-specific data. Odyssey argues that a model with a broad feel for how the world works can learn to run a new machine from just a few hours of examples.
Odyssey-3 is what researchers call a world model: an AI trained on a vast collection of video to simulate how the world behaves, which Odyssey says gives it a learned grasp of physics, motion and cause and effect. To put it to work, Odyssey trains an add-on on recordings that pair what a machine saw with what its operator did, and for driving and games it says the core model stays untouched. The add-on learns to turn the model's understanding into that machine's controls. Odyssey compares this to people, who can learn to operate machinery they have never used because they have spent years watching how objects move and react.
In Odyssey's demos, robot arms recovered from slips they were never shown how to fix, such as turning the gripper to try again after a missed grab. Humanoid robots running partner Flexion's control software carried out requests in real time, such as moving a plate to the middle of a table and setting a mug on top. A driving version trained on about 20 hours of simulated driving steered a car through busy streets in India, with a safety driver aboard. A game-playing version trained on about two hours of "Grand Theft Auto" footage could even ride a horse in "Red Dead Redemption 2" without extra training.
When it unveiled the model, Odyssey said it planned to release Odyssey-3 publicly. It is also working with a robot-testing company to map where the model's skills carry over to new robots and where they break down. Longer term, Odyssey wants the worlds the model can generate to serve as practice grounds where other AIs learn by trial and error, and where risky behavior can be studied before it causes harm in the physical world.
Odyssey's results come from its own demos, and its announcement links no technical paper on Odyssey-3. Its driving test pitted a version trained in simulation against one trained on real footage, not against today's self-driving cars, and its drone flights took place in a simulated room.
Update (Nov. 7): Odyssey released Odyssey-3 on Oct. 8 as a research preview that anyone can try on its website: describe a scene, move around inside the world the model creates, and watch how it responds. Odyssey asks makers of robots, self-driving cars and drones who want to build on the model to get in touch with the company.