>How exactly are these robots meant to be trained for new tasks (or just same task, different factory, or different work station)? It seems that to be useful they'd need to be able to learn on the job.

The plan for raw intelligence is to push transformers as far as we can. What's the full extent of ICL for robotics ? We don't know the answer to that yet.

This was released just a few days ago, https://www.skild.ai/blogs/omni-bodied