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Humanoids, robot arms, home robots and self-driving — and the AI that gives them a body: VLA policies, world models and simulation training
Galbot announced a world first at its opening-ceremony exhibition match. Its English press release says 100 rallies; the Chinese spec sheet says 20. What exactly was being counted still hasn't been explained.
By 김현국
Galbot announced a world first at its opening-ceremony exhibition match. Its English press release says 100 rallies; the Chinese spec sheet says 20. What exactly was being counted still hasn't been explained.
666 teams, 2,056 robots at the second World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing — a time of 21.50 seconds a year ago is now 9.32, but robots still can't slow themselves down without help
Built on TSMC's 5nm process, the chip delivers 1,000+ TOPS, matching NVIDIA's self-driving systems
Musk floats healthcare vision combining Tesla's humanoid robot and xAI's chatbot in a brief social media post
Six months with the $899 AI robot litter box — waste removal was excellent, but facial recognition and waste detection fell short
Fei-Fei Li's startup unveils an engine that replicates a single real-world robot task into thousands of simulation variants for training
Tesla's 2019 vision-only bet has migrated to home robotics — Karpathy's argument, and lidar prices that have fallen to $200
An update combining voice and gesture matches arm direction to a 3D map to clean a specific spot
Figure counts only bipedal robots — hardware mass production advances alongside AI "brain" progress
A newsletter promo image shows a robot fish under development alongside the phrase "autonomous shoaling"
Head of the General Intelligence Center answers directly on autonomous driving's limits and Europe entry timing
Apple unveils MoMo, a robot manipulation framework that controls whether the same motion is performed quickly or cautiously
DYNA-2, a robot foundation model pretrained on 170 years' worth of human behavior video, emerges
Japanese AI startup Sakana AI says it is expanding its RSI Lab to pursue world-model-based physical AI research
Fully open under OpenMDW license, tops LingoQA benchmark
Alpamayo 2 Super unifies trajectory generation, reasoning, and auto-labeling into a single model
Cosmos 3-based World Action Model suggested as a replacement for VLA robot policy architecture
Following an open-weight letter signed with more than 200 companies, NVIDIA unveils an open model for robotics and autonomous driving
Google DeepMind unveiled "Gemini Robotics 2" on July 30, a model that controls a robot's legs, torso, and fingers all at once. It successfully carried a watering can but only managed a 36% success rate at screwing in a light bulb.
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