“How far are we from embodied intelligence? We first ask whether we can build a model to locate semantic concepts in 3D. Meet Find3D🔍: a model to locate any part of any 3D object based on any text query! 👉

“Our new hand/forearm with double the number of degrees of freedom now in action on the bot! There’s 22 DoFs on the hand, and 3 on the wrist/forearm. This little video was made last night in the lab (teleoperated) and is real-time. Gives us confidence that we’ll very soon be” / X

Agility Robotics Announces Strategic Investment and Agreement with Motion Technology Company Schaeffler Group — Agility Robotics

“Force/torque information is crucial for contact-rich manipulation tasks. We propose FoAR, a force-aware reactive policy for complex contact-rich tasks like wiping, peeling, and chopping. All done with the simple end-effector position control! 👉 

On patrol at Mar-a-Lago, robotic dogs have their moment

“Robot balloons are snapping centimetre-resolution photos of the US 

“🤖 KUKA Titan KR1000 🔥 Dark Mode Activated: The KR 1000 Titan is the first six-axis robot with an open kinematic system and an unparalleled payload capacity. đź’Ş It masters the handling of heavy loads over distances of up to 6.5 meters precisely and quickly. âś… Engine blocks 

“I believe Humanoids will become the new smartphones. Think about it: they’re going to be in every home, hospital, labor force, and so much more. This is the dawn of a new ESSENTIAL technology.” / X

Robot Jailbreak: Researchers Trick Bots Into Dangerous Tasks – IEEE Spectrum

“Researchers unveiled Bidex, a $30,000 bimanual robot system that can perform complex two-handed tasks The setup uses motion capture gloves and teacher arms to enable intuitive real-time control, and outperformed vision-based systems in user tests 

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“Sharing a timelapse of a small fleet of Figure 02 humanoid robots doing work Our robots are reasoning fully autonomously Much of the core engineering infrastructure has been laid the last two years, 2025 is going to be 🤯 

“We released a new update on Figure’s humanoid robots working autonomously for our BMW use case Our robots are now 400% faster than the August deployment, with 7x better precision The demo here was arguably 10x harder than any task we’ve showcased before 

“Humanoid robots in production! 🦾🤖 Figure 02 robots are now 400% faster with 7x higher success after trials at Plant Spartanburg. Next stop: BMW Group Production. 🚀 Discover more: 

NVIDIA

“Jensen says cars, drones, and humanoids are the only three types of robots that can scale to extremely high volumes because they can be deployed to the world as it is. “The highest [volume] one is humanoid robots, of course, because we created the world for ourselves.” 

Tesla 

“Got a new hand for Black Friday https://x.com/Tesla_Optimus/status/1862116407594377698

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