Paige ✈️ CoRL - Today we're launching @se3labs, backed by @ycombinator. Robot models

Name: Paige ✈️ CoRL - Today we're launching @se3labs, backed by @ycombinator. Robot models
Uploaded: 2026-11-09T00:00:00Z
Duration: 1 min 10 s
Channel: SE3 Labs
Description: The video is built as a tight montage that cuts between archival footage, bright industrial lab shots and dark wireframe 3D, all unified by a black, cream and red palette and a fast, steady beat. Its signature moves are the white wireframe outline that morphs into live robot footage, walls of multiplying video tiles that isolate failures, and text that types out with a red block cursor.

SE3 Labs · Nov 2026 · 1:09 · AI-annotated

Length: 1:09
Scenes: 39 · 1.8 s avg
Product on screen: 0:21
Call to action: 0:56 · 82%
Voiceover: Yes

SE3 Labs’s 1:09 launch film runs 39 scenes, about 1.8 s each. The product shows up at 0:21. The call to action lands at 0:56 (82% in), over a voiceover. The video is built as a tight montage that cuts between archival footage, bright industrial lab shots and dark wireframe 3D, all unified by a black, cream and red palette and a fast, steady beat. Its signature moves are the white wireframe outline that morphs into live robot footage, walls of multiplying video tiles that isolate failures, and text that types out with a red block cursor.

Footage neededEstimated needs: 1 capture group — your screens or recordings · 1 official logo — reused across the film · 19 filmed passages — shoot, supply or replace · 3 graphic passages — draw or supply · 8 3D passages — build or supply

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Scenes

Structure

Style

Sound

1. HookLive action2.1s
  Archival color footage of a 1930s fair hall: a man stands on a round purple platform beside a gold robot figure while a dense crowd of hat-wearing visitors fills the floor. A large white headline slides in across the frame, then a smaller caption appears along the bottom.
  Cut → Cut · Static · Large white sans-serif headline sliding in, with a smaller white sans-serif caption at the bottom.
  Kinetic type
  Footage neededEstimated needs: 1 filmed passage — shoot, supply or replace
  - Voice“For decades, we were promised a general-purpose robot,”
  - Transitiongradual transition · 0.3s
  - Camerapush in · ease-in, 3.8s
  - SoundClick
  - Text“PLANNED ELECTRIC”
  - Text“Fordecades,” · slide, linear
  - TechniqueKinetic type
  - Text“LANNED ELECTRIC KITCHEN”
  - Text“We were promised a general-purpose”
  Similar scenes
2. HookLive action2.3s
  A golden humanoid robot with a black circular hole in its chest stands in a white Art Deco set with curved metal railings. Its mouth opens and closes as it speaks. A white caption sits at the bottom of the locked-off frame.
3. HookLive action0.4s
  A man in a dark uniform and cap stands before a glass-block wall, holding a piece of paper. A machine with dials and a glowing light sits behind him in the black-and-white footage.
4. HookLive action0.8s
  A gray serif Bellman equation on black cuts to grainy archival footage of a red car body on a factory line, pipes and cables around it, while a white caption builds word by word at the bottom.
5. HookGraphics0.4s
  A white loss curve descends from the top left and flattens toward the right on a black background, axis labels reading loss and step. Below it, a white caption types out word by word.
6. HookTitle card0.8s
  Black-and-white archival footage of a masked lab worker holding a small object cuts to a black screen. The attention formula sits in white serif type at center, with a caption below. The frame holds still.
7. HookLive action0.4s
  A grainy, low-contrast wide shot holds on a flat horizon where a thin row of dark shapes, like a distant fleet, sits against a pale textured field. The frame stays locked off while a white caption sits at the bottom.
8. HookGraphics0.6s
  A log-log plot of loss versus compute, a downward line with dots and the formula L ∝ C^-α, sits on black. The background dissolves to black-and-white footage of a ship at sea as the plot and bottom caption remain.
9. HookLive action1s
  A dim warehouse with a forklift and shelving is overlaid by a web of connected white circles. The image then warps into wavy, concentric glitch bands while a white caption holds at the bottom.

Paige ✈️ CoRL - Today we're launching @se3labs, backed by @ycombinator. Robot models, scene by scene

· 39 scenes as text

01 · Hook · 0:00–0:02
Archival color footage of a 1930s fair hall: a man stands on a round purple platform beside a gold robot figure while a dense crowd of hat-wearing visitors fills the floor. A large white headline slides in across the frame, then a smaller caption appears along the bottom.
On-screen text: “For decades,”, “We were promised a general-purpose”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
02 · Hook · 0:02–0:04
A golden humanoid robot with a black circular hole in its chest stands in a white Art Deco set with curved metal railings. Its mouth opens and closes as it speaks. A white caption sits at the bottom of the locked-off frame.
On-screen text: “We were promised a general-purpose robot.”
Camera: Static
03 · Hook · 0:04–0:04
A man in a dark uniform and cap stands before a glass-block wall, holding a piece of paper. A machine with dials and a glowing light sits behind him in the black-and-white footage.
On-screen text: “One that works and changes our lives.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
04 · Hook · 0:04–0:05
A gray serif Bellman equation on black cuts to grainy archival footage of a red car body on a factory line, pipes and cables around it, while a white caption builds word by word at the bottom.
On-screen text: “V(s) = max_a [ r(s, a) + γ Σ_s' P(s' || s, a) V(s') ]”, “One that works and changes our lives.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
05 · Hook · 0:05–0:06
A white loss curve descends from the top left and flattens toward the right on a black background, axis labels reading loss and step. Below it, a white caption types out word by word.
On-screen text: “One that works and changes our lives.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
06 · Hook · 0:06–0:06
Black-and-white archival footage of a masked lab worker holding a small object cuts to a black screen. The attention formula sits in white serif type at center, with a caption below. The frame holds still.
On-screen text: “One that works and changes our lives.”, “Attention(Q, K, V) = softmax( QKT / √dk ) V”
Camera: Static
07 · Hook · 0:06–0:07
A grainy, low-contrast wide shot holds on a flat horizon where a thin row of dark shapes, like a distant fleet, sits against a pale textured field. The frame stays locked off while a white caption sits at the bottom.
On-screen text: “One that works and changes our lives.”, “Attention(Q, K, V) = softmax( QKT / √dk ) V”
Camera: Static
08 · Hook · 0:07–0:07
A log-log plot of loss versus compute, a downward line with dots and the formula L ∝ C^-α, sits on black. The background dissolves to black-and-white footage of a ship at sea as the plot and bottom caption remain.
On-screen text: “One that works and changes our lives.”
Camera: Static
09 · Hook · 0:07–0:08
A dim warehouse with a forklift and shelving is overlaid by a web of connected white circles. The image then warps into wavy, concentric glitch bands while a white caption holds at the bottom.
On-screen text: “One that works and changes our lives.”
Camera: Pan
10 · Problem · 0:08–0:09
A full-frame SMPTE color bar test pattern holds with vertical bars of gray, green, magenta and red over a gradient strip. The hues brighten, then the frame collapses to near black with a single thin red horizontal line across the center.
Camera: Static
11 · Problem · 0:09–0:10
A black robot with yellow accents and orange wiring climbs a brick wall with gray ledges, rising past a white panel marked by a black circle. A white caption sits at the bottom left of the frame.
On-screen text: “But in the real world, they still fail.”
Camera: Pan
12 · Problem · 0:10–0:11
A silver humanoid robot reaches one hand toward a white door set into a brick wall, then loses balance and lurches forward, arms swinging as it stumbles. A white subtitle runs along the bottom of the frame throughout.
On-screen text: “But in the real world, they still fail.”
Camera: Static
13 · Problem · 0:11–0:12
A white humanoid robot with teal hands stumbles and topples onto the sandy ground, red barrier blocks lining the background. A bottom caption states that in the real world they still fail.
On-screen text: “But in the real world, they still fail.”
Camera: Static
14 · Problem · 0:12–0:14
A wireframe 3D space: a long table holds a row of dark panels, each with a white line icon (four-point star, radial burst, knot, infinity loop), while racks of small models sit in the background. The camera tracks along the table as a caption types out at the bottom.
On-screen text: “Models have gotten much better.”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Parallax
Camera: Pull out
15 · Problem · 0:14–0:19
Dark wireframe 3D space: translucent cards with white icons stand on a table, a red card flips into a tray labeled sim, and the camera pulls back to reveal lab benches labeled lab. A white caption builds word by word below.
On-screen text: “But that progress doesn't always carry over”, “beyond the lab or simulation.”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Parallax
Camera: Pull out
16 · Problem · 0:19–0:20
A cream field framed by thin red vertical bars at the left and right edges. The bold black words “That gap needs to be” appear one by one, spread across the frame, then hold in place.
On-screen text: “That”, “gap”, “needs”, “to be”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
17 · Problem · 0:20–0:21
On a black background, two lines of white text hold centered and static: a smaller regular line reading 'That gap needs to be' above a larger bold 'closed.' A faint vertical hairline down the center fades out over the shot.
On-screen text: “That gap needs to be”, “closed.”
Camera: Static
18 · Product intro · 0:21–0:23
A solid red field holds a white line of text that assembles word by word: “We are” sits left of center while “SE3” fades in, then “Labs.” completes the line. The finished sentence holds on the locked-off frame for the rest of the clip.
On-screen text: “We are SE3 Labs.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
19 · Product intro · 0:23–0:24
A red card shows “We are SE3 Labs.” in white, then the text streaks apart to reveal a 3D grid of wireframe cubes, each holding a robot arm, with a caption fading in at the bottom.
On-screen text: “We are SE3 Labs.”, “We're building real-world RL environments for robots.”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Push in
20 · Product intro · 0:24–0:25
A wireframe grid of robotic arms on tables fills a dark space. The camera tilts down and dollies in from a high overhead view to a close angle on two arms, revealing colored blocks and a tray on the central table.
On-screen text: “We're building real-world RL environments for robots.”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Push in
21 · Demo · 0:25–0:27
A wide shot of a robotics lab with rows of identical dual-arm workstations. The foreground bench holds two robot arms, colored blocks, and a parts tray. A white line overlay traces the central robot, then the bottom caption changes.
On-screen text: “We're building real-world RL environments for robots.”, “We start with real tasks from industry partners.”
Camera: Static
22 · Demo · 0:27–0:28
An overhead view of a dual-arm robot on a white table with blue, red and yellow bins zooms out to a grid of many similar robot task clips. A white caption sits along the bottom edge.
On-screen text: “We start with real tasks from industry partners.”
Techniques: Split screen
Camera: Pull out
23 · Demo · 0:28–0:37
A wall of small video tiles, each a dual-arm robot at a workbench, multiplies and recedes in 3D perspective. Red borders mark failing tiles as the rest dims, then the marked tiles lift out as stacked white-framed cards.
On-screen text: “We start with real tasks from industry partners.”, “Testing policies on real robots at the workbench.”, “To find exactly where they fail.”, “Those failures guide the data we collect and curate.”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Push in
24 · Demo · 0:37–0:39
A top-down view of two white robotic arms on a white table with blue, green and red blocks. The arms reach and grasp the blocks while the frame tightens slightly. A bottom caption explains the data feedback loop.
On-screen text: “Those failures guide the data we collect and curate.”, “Giving model teams targeted feedback for the next policy update.”
Camera: Push in
25 · Demo · 0:39–0:40
A dark interface shows three black-and-white camera views of a dual-arm robot on a table above a joint trajectory plot. A red playhead sweeps left to right, drawing the joint and gripper curves as it passes.
On-screen text: “Giving model teams targeted feedback for the next policy update.”
Camera: Pull out
26 · Demo · 0:40–0:41
A dark data panel holds three top-down clips of a dual-arm robot above a joint signal chart, with a red grasp slip window fading in. The panel cross-dissolves into a live shot of the white robot arm on a black table.
On-screen text: “Giving model teams targeted feedback for the next policy update.”
Camera: Static
27 · Demo · 0:41–0:42
Two white robotic arms on a black base grip the ends of an orange cable resting on a metal fixture in a blurred workshop. The live footage then shifts to a white wireframe outline of the same setup, the cable staying solid orange.
Techniques: Morph
Camera: Static
28 · Demo · 0:42–0:44
A dark 3D factory floor of robotic arms on tables, drawn in wireframe and solid black-and-white, pulls back from a single station with a red button to a grid of work cells framed by red outlines. A white caption sits at the bottom.
On-screen text: “Then we bring those policies to partner sites.”
Techniques: 3D mockup
Camera: Pull out
29 · Demo · 0:44–0:45
A dark wireframe factory floor is shown in 3D perspective, rows of tables each holding a robotic arm, a few stations boxed in red line frames. The camera slowly pulls back to reveal more of the grid. A white caption holds at the bottom.
On-screen text: “Then we bring those policies to partner sites.”
Techniques: Parallax
Camera: Pull out
30 · Demo · 0:45–0:46
Two housekeepers in beige uniforms stand at either end of a bed, shaking out a large white sheet in a bright white bedroom with sheer curtains. A white caption line sits at the bottom of the frame.
On-screen text: “Then we bring those policies to partner sites.”, “From hotels to carmakers.”
Camera: Static
31 · Demo · 0:46–0:46
An aerial drone shot of a tropical resort with a turquoise pool and palm trees cuts to a factory floor, where a car engine sits on an assembly line surrounded by workers. The caption reads at the bottom of the frame.
On-screen text: “From hotels to carmakers.”
Camera: Static
32 · Demo · 0:46–0:47
A silhouetted worker in a hooded coat stands amid a shower of orange sparks in a factory, then the shot cuts to a top-down aerial of rows of parked cars. A white caption sits across the bottom throughout.
On-screen text: “From hotels to carmakers.”
Camera: Static
33 · Demo · 0:47–0:50
A wireframe robot arm reaches for a white bottle on a table; the camera pans across rows of identical arms in a dark grid, then the render cross-dissolves into live footage of a real arm gripping a blue cloth, its wireframe outline still overlaid.
On-screen text: “Building physical RL gyms for robots to practice and improve.”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Parallax, Morph
Camera: Push in
34 · Demo · 0:50–0:51
A white and black robotic arm presses a light blue cloth flat on a gray metal table, a second arm blurred in the background. A white line-art sketch of the robot overlays the opening frame and fades out. A white caption holds at the bottom.
On-screen text: “Building physical RL gyms for robots to practice and improve.”
Camera: Static
35 · Demo · 0:51–0:56
On a light gray background, the word capability builds up letter by letter in black monospace type, a red block taking the place of the i. The block hops to the end of the line and the opening letters flip to red, spelling usability.
On-screen text: “Building physical RL gyms for robots to practice and improve.”, “capability”, “usability”
Techniques: Kinetic type, Morph
Camera: Static
36 · CTA · 0:56–0:59
A wide dolly shot tracks down the central aisle of a bright factory hall, rows of white robotic arms on grey machining tables receding to a vanishing point. A white caption line sits along the bottom edge while the camera glides forward at a steady pace.
On-screen text: “With SE3, let's make robots work in the real world,”
Camera: Push in
37 · CTA · 0:59–1:01
A high-angle shot tracks forward through a bright lab hall, rows of robotic arms mounted on steel tables receding into the distance between white columns and yellow floor lines.
On-screen text: “With SE3, let's make robots work in the real world,”
Camera: Static
38 · Outro · 1:01–1:05
On a black background, white text types out character by character with a red block cursor, forming two centered lines, then the text fades out leaving only the red cursor on screen.
On-screen text: “SE3. Real-world RL and data”, “for physical AI.”
Techniques: Kinetic type
Camera: Static
39 · Outro · 1:05–1:09
A white wireframe robotic arm on black rotates its joints, swinging its red end-effector down to the top stroke of an outlined SE3 wordmark. The outline fills solid white, the arm fades, and the URL se3labs.ai fades in beneath the logo.
On-screen text: “SE3”, “se3labs.ai”
Techniques: 3D mockup, Morph
Camera: Static

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Paige ✈️ CoRL - Today we're launching @se3labs, backed by @ycombinator. Robot models, scene by scene

01 · Hook · 0:00–0:02

02 · Hook · 0:02–0:04

03 · Hook · 0:04–0:04

04 · Hook · 0:04–0:05

05 · Hook · 0:05–0:06

06 · Hook · 0:06–0:06

07 · Hook · 0:06–0:07

08 · Hook · 0:07–0:07

09 · Hook · 0:07–0:08

10 · Problem · 0:08–0:09

11 · Problem · 0:09–0:10

12 · Problem · 0:10–0:11

13 · Problem · 0:11–0:12

14 · Problem · 0:12–0:14

15 · Problem · 0:14–0:19

16 · Problem · 0:19–0:20

17 · Problem · 0:20–0:21

18 · Product intro · 0:21–0:23

19 · Product intro · 0:23–0:24

20 · Product intro · 0:24–0:25

21 · Demo · 0:25–0:27

22 · Demo · 0:27–0:28

23 · Demo · 0:28–0:37

24 · Demo · 0:37–0:39

25 · Demo · 0:39–0:40

26 · Demo · 0:40–0:41

27 · Demo · 0:41–0:42

28 · Demo · 0:42–0:44

29 · Demo · 0:44–0:45

30 · Demo · 0:45–0:46

31 · Demo · 0:46–0:46

32 · Demo · 0:46–0:47

33 · Demo · 0:47–0:50

34 · Demo · 0:50–0:51

35 · Demo · 0:51–0:56

36 · CTA · 0:56–0:59

37 · CTA · 0:59–1:01

38 · Outro · 1:01–1:05

39 · Outro · 1:05–1:09