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Introducing Asim | Benchmarking Physical Intelligence

Asim · Nov 2026 · 1:23 · AI-annotated · YC Fall 2026

00:00:00 / 01:23:03

A founder talks to camera in a bright office while fast-cut B-roll shows humanoid robots failing in the wild and being tested in a white lab, with lowercase kinetic captions typing out key phrases. Hard cuts between street, beach, forest and lab, orange flash transitions and glitch effects on every fall define the style at a pace of about 33 cuts per minute.

Footage neededEstimated needs: 1 capture group — your screens or recordings · 1 official logo — reused across the film · 48 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace

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Introducing Asim | Benchmarking Physical Intelligence, scene by scene

· 53 scenes as text
  1. 01 · Hook · 0:00–0:03

    A man in a white shirt stands centered on a tree-lined pedestrian street, speaking to camera on a locked-off frame. Behind him, a white humanoid robot with a black head walks down the path toward the camera, growing larger over the shot.

    Camera: Static

  2. 02 · Hook · 0:03–0:04

    A wide shot of a stone plaza before a glass-fronted building. A cream and black humanoid robot sprints left to right across the frame, motion-blurred, while a man in a white shirt stands still at center.

    Camera: Static

  3. 03 · Hook · 0:04–0:05

    A presenter in a white t-shirt and black pants stands center on a paved plaza, gesturing with one hand, as a white and black humanoid robot strides in from the left. A stone building with wide stairs and glass railings fills the background.

    Camera: Static

  4. 04 · Hook · 0:05–0:06

    A man in a white t-shirt stands in a sunlit park, gesturing as he speaks, while a white humanoid robot runs along the paved path behind him toward the camera.

    Camera: Static

  5. 05 · Hook · 0:06–0:07

    A man sits cross-legged on a paved walkway, talking to camera and gesturing, as a white humanoid robot walks toward him in the background. The shot cuts to a close-up of him standing in front of a slatted concrete wall, still speaking.

    Camera: Static

  6. 06 · Hook · 0:07–0:08

    A young man in a white t-shirt stands centered in front of wide concrete steps, speaking directly to the camera. The background is softly out of focus, and the framing stays static throughout the short clip.

    Camera: Static

  7. 07 · Hook · 0:08–0:09

    A silver humanoid robot with a black visor head stands in the foreground before concrete steps as a man in a white t-shirt walks past and exits left. The robot rotates its upper body and arms toward the camera.

    Camera: Static

  8. 08 · Hook · 0:09–0:13

    A man in a white t-shirt lies on grey paving stones, a small cut on his forehead. He clutches his chest in pain, then drops his hands and looks up, speaking to the camera from a high angle.

    Camera: Static

  9. 09 · Problem · 0:13–0:14

    A man in a white shirt holds up a phone to film a small white robot dog wearing a purple scarf while a smiling boy in a black shirt watches, set in a busy indoor space with other people in the background.

    Camera: Static

  10. 10 · Problem · 0:14–0:15

    A red and black humanoid robot sprints down a blue running track, then stumbles and crashes to the ground, tumbling onto its side. A blue cone marked 33 sits in the lower left as the camera tracks the fall from a high angle.

    Camera: Pan

  11. 11 · Problem · 0:15–0:16

    A person in a white and black robot costume with a bright blue head crouches and moves through a crowd of children in a gymnasium.

    On-screen text: “33”

    Camera: Pan

  12. 12 · Problem · 0:16–0:17

    High-angle shot in a showroom: a man in a white shirt kicks a black-and-silver humanoid robot, sending it tumbling backward through the air toward the floor. Two other men stand nearby beside shelves of product boxes.

    Camera: Static

  13. 13 · Problem · 0:17–0:18

    In a static wide shot of a gym, a silver humanoid robot with a glowing blue head light flips end over end above a low platform, its body blurred by speed. Mats and orange barriers line the background.

    Camera: Static

  14. 14 · Problem · 0:18–0:20

    A man in a black t-shirt faces the camera on the right, speaking, while a humanoid robot hangs from a cable harness in the soft-focus left background. The caption 'seriously injured' types out letter by letter in white, the last letter in green.

    On-screen text: “seriously injured”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  15. 15 · Problem · 0:20–0:21

    A man in a black t-shirt speaks to camera in a bright room, a humanoid robot standing blurred on the left. White captions appear at mid-height beside him as he talks.

    On-screen text: “seriously injured”, “even killed”

    Camera: Static

  16. 16 · Problem · 0:21–0:22

    A locked-off close-up of The Independent homepage, a Tesla lawsuit headline highlighted in yellow, starts soft and racks into sharp focus.

    On-screen text: “even killed”

    Camera: Static

  17. 17 · Problem · 0:22–0:22

    A close-up of a news webpage on a screen pulls from blur into sharp focus. The headline reads GM's Cruise self-driving unit to pay $1.5 million fine over crash disclosure, the fine clause highlighted in yellow, above a photo of a white car on a city street.

    Camera: Static

  18. 18 · Problem · 0:22–0:23

    A blurred news headline, “GM's Cruise self-driving unit to pay $1.5 million fine over crash disclosure,” cuts to a second, “GM to cut spending on Cruise after robotaxi accident: FT,” which scales in. Soft focus, pixelated texture, yellow highlights, locked-off frame.

    On-screen text: “GM's Cruise self-driving unit to pay $1.5 million fine over crash disclosure”, “GM to cut spending on Cruise after robotaxi accident: FT”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  19. 19 · Problem · 0:23–0:26

    A man in a black shirt speaks to camera in a white lab, a humanoid robot hanging from straps behind him. The clip fades in from a washed-out state as a highlighted news headline disappears.

    On-screen text: “GM to cut spending on Cruise after robotaxi accident: FT”

    Camera: Static

  20. 20 · Problem · 0:26–0:27

    A bright gradient flash fades into a locked-off shot of a white robotics lab. A yellow robotic arm sits at left, a red emergency-stop button on a column at right. The caption holds centered in white.

    On-screen text: “whole robotics industry”

    Camera: Static

  21. 21 · Problem · 0:27–0:27

    A white and teal robotic arm works inside a glass-enclosed machine, shifting a small part between frames. The phrase 'whole robotics industry' sits centered in white text over the shot, held on a locked-off frame.

    On-screen text: “whole robotics industry”

    Camera: Static

  22. 22 · Problem · 0:27–0:28

    A dense factory interior fills the frame with robotic arms, metal scaffolding, pipes and blue and orange machinery, held in a locked-off wide shot. White lowercase text sits centered while a warm red lens flare sweeps across the lower left.

    On-screen text: “whole robotics industry”

    Techniques: Light sweep

    Camera: Static

  23. 23 · Product intro · 0:28–0:30

    A man in a black t-shirt speaks to camera in a white room, a humanoid robot suspended on a harness sits behind him. A red-orange color wash fades from the frame, then the white asim. wordmark scales in on the left.

    On-screen text: “asim.”

    Camera: Static

  24. 24 · Product intro · 0:30–0:32

    Two men adjust the hand of a white humanoid robot in a workshop; cut to a beach where a man crouches over a fallen robot as the word asim. scales in.

    On-screen text: “asim.”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  25. 25 · Product intro · 0:32–0:33

    A white humanoid robot lies on a sandy beach while two people crouch over it. A hard cut lands on an indoor set where a man in a black shirt holds a tablet beside a standing white robot with a glowing blue visor.

    Camera: Static

  26. 26 · Product intro · 0:33–0:35

    A man in a dark shirt crouches with a tablet, facing a silver humanoid robot whose face ring glows blue. The robot shifts its stance as the man taps the screen, in a bright warehouse with windows and gray doors.

    Camera: Static

  27. 27 · Product intro · 0:35–0:36

    A white humanoid robot strides across a sandy beach toward the camera, the sea and a distant headland behind it. The caption holds centered in the frame over the moving figure.

    On-screen text: “deployed in the wild”

    Camera: Push in

  28. 28 · Feature reveal · 0:36–0:38

    A man in a black t-shirt stands center frame, talking to the camera and gesturing with one hand. Behind him, out of focus, colleagues work at a laptop and write on a whiteboard in a bright office.

    Camera: Static

  29. 29 · Feature reveal · 0:38–0:39

    A high-angle shot frames a silver humanoid robot with a black head, suspended by black straps, crouched over a cardboard box on a concrete floor. Its hands grip the box edges as it leans in, the warehouse setting lit evenly.

    Camera: Static

  30. 30 · Feature reveal · 0:39–0:41

    A low-angle close-up follows a white robotic foot as it steps down into a shallow puddle on muddy ground. The foot lands and plants, sending a spray of water droplets outward, while dark green foliage fills the background.

    Camera: Static

  31. 31 · Feature reveal · 0:41–0:44

    A low-angle shot tracks the legs of a white humanoid robot striding across a sandy beach, waves behind. It stumbles and topples sideways. Centered white text reads “worked 100X”, then “now fails” scales in with a glitch as the robot falls.

    On-screen text: “worked”, “100X”, “now fails”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Pan

  32. 32 · Feature reveal · 0:44–0:52

    A man in a black tee talks to camera in a bright office, blurred coworkers at desks behind. White lowercase words scale in on either side of him, then a padlock and a shield icon mark safe and unsafe as orange light floods the frame top.

    On-screen text: “nowfails”, “howyour”, “handles the”, “unexpected”, “safe”, “unsafe”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  33. 33 · Feature reveal · 0:52–0:53

    A bright orange gradient flash cuts to a silver humanoid robot seen from behind, walking away down a dim forest path. The caption 'beyond testing' is locked over its back, with 'testing' in teal.

    On-screen text: “unsafe”, “beyond testing”

    Camera: Push in

  34. 34 · Feature reveal · 0:53–0:54

    Two men stand behind a silver humanoid robot on a dim forest path, each holding a handheld controller. The camera slowly pushes in on the robot's torso as the static caption 'beyond testing' holds centered over it.

    On-screen text: “beyond testing”

    Camera: Pull out

  35. 35 · Feature reveal · 0:54–0:55

    Low close-up of dry brown leaves covering the ground. A silver robotic gripper with a black circular joint enters from the right and shifts across the leaves, its articulated fingers opening and closing as it works the surface.

    Camera: Pan

  36. 36 · Feature reveal · 0:55–0:59

    A man in a black t-shirt addresses the camera from center frame, speaking. Behind him, an out-of-focus office shows people at desks with laptops and one writing on a whiteboard. The clip opens with a warm orange color wash that fades to neutral.

    Camera: Static

  37. 37 · Feature reveal · 0:59–1:00

    A black two-finger gripper descends onto a wooden chessboard and closes around a black pawn. A hand holds white pawns at the right edge. Low angle, shallow focus, with a blurred map and orange timer in the background.

    Camera: Pan

  38. 38 · Feature reveal · 1:00–1:01

    Three silver humanoid robots with glowing blue visors move their arms in sync in a warehouse, then a hard cut to a close-up of a silver robot hand gripping a white can on wet cobblestones.

    Camera: Static

  39. 39 · Feature reveal · 1:01–1:02

    A white robot leg steps into a muddy puddle at low angle. A bright light flash cuts to a wide shot of the humanoid robot walking a forest path, a red dashed line with small squares spans the frame.

    Techniques: Light sweep

    Camera: Static

  40. 40 · Feature reveal · 1:02–1:02

    A white humanoid robot with a glowing blue visor runs along a dirt forest trail, legs pumping. The shot cuts to a man in a black t-shirt speaking to camera, blurred colleagues behind him.

    Camera: Static

  41. 41 · Feature reveal · 1:02–1:03

    A man in a black t-shirt stands centered in a bright office, speaking directly to the camera. Behind him, blurred, a colleague works at a laptop, another sits at a desk, and a third writes on a whiteboard.

    Camera: Static

  42. 42 · Feature reveal · 1:03–1:04

    A man in a black t-shirt speaks to the camera in a bright studio, with blurred coworkers at desks and a whiteboard behind him. A warm orange light leak sweeps across the left side of the frame.

    Techniques: Light sweep

    Camera: Static

  43. 43 · Feature reveal · 1:04–1:05

    A man in a black hoodie adjusts a white and black robotic arm in a workshop, shot close with soft depth of field. The white caption 'specific feedback' is centered over the shot, settling from a brief green highlight on two letters at the start.

    On-screen text: “specific feedback”

    Camera: Static

  44. 44 · Feature reveal · 1:05–1:06

    A wide locked-off shot of a workshop where three engineers work around a humanoid robot on a treadmill rig, one crouched at a control box, one adjusting its arm, one holding a remote. The frame dims behind centered white text, then brightens as the text clears.

    On-screen text: “specific feedback”

    Camera: Static

  45. 45 · Feature reveal · 1:06–1:08

    Wide static shot of a bright lab: two engineers adjust a white humanoid robot mounted on a black gantry lift, one turning a yellow winch, while a third sits at a triple-monitor desk in the background.

    Camera: Static

  46. 46 · Feature reveal · 1:08–1:09

    Two men in profile against a white wall, the foreground man in sharp focus and a second man with glasses softly blurred behind him. Both watch off-screen left as the foreground man lifts his arm into the frame.

    Camera: Pull out

  47. 47 · Feature reveal · 1:09–1:10

    Two engineers in black JPL shirts watch a screen in profile. A bright yellow flash cuts to a presenter in a lab, speaking to camera, with a humanoid robot suspended on a rig behind him.

    Camera: Static

  48. 48 · Feature reveal · 1:10–1:12

    A man in a black t-shirt sits in the foreground, speaking to camera and gesturing with his hands. Behind him, a white humanoid robot hangs suspended from a gantry rig over a treadmill platform in a bright, empty lab room.

    Camera: Static

  49. 49 · Feature reveal · 1:12–1:13

    A man in a black t-shirt speaks to camera on the right; a humanoid robot hangs from a harness in the bright background left. The white caption resolves into place over the robot.

    On-screen text: “improve safety”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Static

  50. 50 · CTA · 1:13–1:14

    A man in a black T-shirt speaks to camera in a bright room, a humanoid robot hangs from a crane hook behind him; the shot cuts to a white card where “Real World” scales in, “World” set bold.

    On-screen text: “improve safety”, “Real World”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Pull out

  51. 51 · CTA · 1:14–1:18

    A silver humanoid robot walks away down a dim forest trail in a locked-off shot. Centered white text reads “Real World”, then swaps its second word to “Robots” and “Feedback”, each scaling in over the moving robot.

    On-screen text: “Real World”, “Real Robots”, “Real Feedback”

    Techniques: Kinetic type

    Camera: Pull out

  52. 52 · CTA · 1:18–1:19

    The white asim. wordmark with a teal dot holds centered on a faint grid. The background crossfades from a pale green-blue gradient to a deep teal while the logo stays locked off as the sign-off.

    On-screen text: “asim.”

    Camera: Static

  53. 53 · CTA · 1:19–1:23

    A white asim. wordmark holds center on a dark teal grid. The tagline and a teal CTA button fade in beneath it, hold steady, then the entire card fades to black.

    On-screen text: “Benchmarking physical intelligence.”, “asim-group.com →”

    Camera: Static