19 Sep
RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions? (4 minute read)
— robocurve.orgvla-foundation-models
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19 Sep
SoftBank agrees to acquire Robotics and AI Institute (1 minute read)
— therobotreport.comindustry-funding
18 Sep
Isaac Sim 7.0.0 Alpha 1 is tagged on GitHub (tool · 1 minute read)
18 Sep
Robotic lab sets up and runs optics experiments on demand (5 minute read)
— news.mit.edumanipulation
18 Sep
PreDE predicts offline whether quantization will degrade a world action model (paper · 15 minute read)
— cs.RO updates on arXiv.orgworld-models
17 Sep
ForwardDLO: Model-Based Bimanual Shape Matching of Unconstrained Deformable Linear Objects (paper · 15 minute read)
— cs.RO updates on arXiv.orgmanipulation
15 Sep
BlackPanther2 quadruped runs at 13.2 m/s on a treadmill and 11.65 m/s outdoors, authors report (paper · 15 minute read)
9 Sep
ARC-Bench: Closed-Loop Replanning Masks Broken Action Ranking in Frozen JEPA World Models (paper · 15 minute read)
9 Sep
Big-D Construction expands FieldAI robot deployments across its project portfolio (4 minute read)
8 Sep
ByteDance's founder joins the race to perfect world models (1 minute read)
— bloomberg.comworld-models
8 Sep
The Boston Dynamics spinout building robots you’ll actually want to hug (4 minute read)
— fortune.comindustry-funding
8 Sep
Robot revolt? Polish company stages protest demanding stricter AI rules (2 minute read)
8 Sep
From dance floor to war: China readies humanoid robots for combat (1 minute read)
8 Sep
LG Electronics-owned Bear Robotics eyes up to $300 mn pre-IPO funding (1 minute read)
— KED Globalindustry-funding
7 Sep
MEMOBench: A Process Level Memory Benchmark for Robotic Manipulation (paper · 15 minute read)
5 Sep
ICE plans for robodogs met with concern by privacy experts (3 minute read)
— FedScooppolicy-safety
4 Sep
Robot.com signs a seven-year delivery-robot deal with Sodexo (4 minute read)
— The Robot Reportindustry-funding
4 Sep
Berg Insight forecasts 26 million humanoid shipments a year by 2040 (3 minute read)
3 Sep
The Best Way to Explore Lunar Craters Is a Giant Robot Ball (5 minute read)
— IEEE Spectrumlocomotion
3 Sep
BRIDGE: An Open-Source Humanoid Platform via Morphology-Control Co-Design for Physical AI (paper · 15 minute read)
2 Sep
Nori Robotics takes orders for the $1,688 Nori A3 humanoid (1 minute read)
— noril1.comhumanoids
28 Aug
Overcooked? Why robotic pizza makers are failing (4 minute read)
28 Aug
China's humanoid robots aren't smart enough to take your job (1 minute read)
— reuters.comhumanoids
26 Aug
Perceptron releases Isaac 0.5, an open-weight vision model for factory robots (3 minute read)
26 Aug
Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era (5 minute read)
25 Aug
I spent a day at a robot "carnival" in Shanghai. Here's what I saw (4 minute read)
— technologyreview.comhumanoids
25 Aug
AGIBOT x Chimelong Group: Build the World’s First Embodied‑AI Theme Park (video · 3 min)
21 Aug
Reactor open-sources a world model and its training code (1 minute read)
20 Aug
China's humanoid robot boom is fueled by government-backed training centres (1 minute read)
20 Aug
ADEPT: Accelerating Dexterity via Pre-Training and Post-Training using Reinforcement Learning (paper · 15 minute read)
18 Aug
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts (1 minute read)
18 Aug
IG-10K: 20,000 paired human-robot episodes for the Imitator Game benchmark (dataset · 1 minute read)
17 Aug
LimX Dynamics' TRON 2 patrols an underground utility tunnel on its own (video · 3 min)
17 Aug
Tactile Sim2Real without Tactile Simulation via Bottlenecked Latent Reconstruction (paper · 15 minute read)
14 Aug
Accelerating Large-scale Bundle Adjustment for LiDAR Mapping via Parallel Computing (paper · 15 minute read)
13 Aug
Anthropic in Talks to Buy World Model AI Startup Decart for $6B (1 minute read)
12 Aug
DecisionFacts publishes a sample of its SO-101 arm teleoperation data (dataset · 1 minute read)
12 Aug
G0.5: One Autoregressive Stream for Robot Reasoning and Action (paper · 15 minute read)
11 Aug
RynnValue: Scaling Robotic Value Foundation Models with Temporal Distance (paper · 15 minute read)
10 Aug
Unitree's Shanghai IPO more than 8k times oversubscribed by retail investors (1 minute read)
— reuters.comindustry-funding
9 Aug
CaryX AI releases 10 hours of chest-mounted RGB-D video of two-handed tasks (dataset · 1 minute read)
8 Aug
Robot dogs undercut security guards on cost, Business Insider reports (2 minute read)
— Futurismindustry-funding
4 Aug
CaryX AI releases 116 annotated episodes of everyday two-handed tasks (dataset · 1 minute read)
4 Aug
Tactus: Open-Vocabulary Object Recognition from Low-Cost Pressure Arrays (paper · 15 minute read)
4 Aug
Ego2Robot: Scalable Robot Data Synthesis from Egocentric Human Data (paper · 15 minute read)
3 Aug