“”When you ask your stoned roommates to put away the groceries” 😭 https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1893086352851263931

“Nothing like getting your BBQ aerially bombarded into your backyard — and sometimes your neighbors 😭 https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1893809362449096939

“Checkout this dumbass company: > Robots running fully end-to-end, at human speed > Shipped to 1st customer, doing useful work and generating revenue https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893346008714649966

“Helix is a novel architecture, “System 1, System 2” > System 2 is an internet-pretrained 7B parameter VLM (big brain) > System 1 is an 80M parameter visuomotor policy (fast control) Each system runs on onboard embedded GPUs, making it immediately ready for commercial https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892579188424712682

“Introducing Helix, our newest AI that thinks like a human To bring robots into homes, we need a step change in capabilities Helix can generalize to any household item 🧵 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892577936869327233

“Let’s make a point to be good humans fwiw I will make enough robots for the entire world, let me cook” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893381477636637043

“Our first customer use case took 12 months – our second, just 30 days Helix is enabling robots to scale with a single neural network On Sunday, we successfully tested robots on-site with the customer! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894781636153405870

“What’s truly exciting is that these robots can now generally pick up any household item For instance, we asked it to “Pick up the desert item” Helix identifies the toy cactus, chooses the nearest hand, and executes precise motor commands to grasp it securely! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892579136956186947

“🖤🖤🖤 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894073567211655315

Discover | 1X https://www.1x.tech/discover/introducing-neo-gamma

“Congrats to my long-time friend & GEAR co-lead, @yukez, for his well-deserved tenure!! 🍾” / X https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1894826654259913092

“Clone CEO Dhanush Radhakrishnan says Clone will first be deployed in industrial facilities, followed by hotels and assisted living facilities before reaching homes. He also claims their unique technology will make the robots highly competitive in price and performance. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894867432172593590

“EngineAI’s PM01 can do front flips now. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1893810996034101580

“GET HYPE!! NEO update tomorrow! What do you think it will be?” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1892667976844980429

“MagicLab launched the MagicHand S01, a dexterous hand with 11 DOF, force-position control, and tactile perception. It can grip a 5kg (11 lb) load with a single finger + thumb and has a payload capacity of 20kg (44 lb). https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1892494631478448304

“More stunning shots of NEO Gamma https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1893036139872952755

“NEO + Nothing That’s an interesting collaboration. “A different kind of unboxing is about to happen. Tomorrow.” — Nothing Technology https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1893732978653614210

“NEO Gamma has the tush for the cush. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1893067784663507244

“NEO now walks with a confident, more natural gait, thanks to the new multipurpose whole-body controller running at 100Hz, which executes skills learned using Reinforcement Learning from human motion capture data. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1893019182670979249

“No special outfits, skins or shoes needed – your Clone will wear what people wear. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1892976381241217475

“Which side are you on? ⦿ Robots that look like robots ⦿ Robots that look like humans https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1892699398859096431

““IS THAT ALL YOU’VE GOT?” — Booster T1 https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1892985543161471245

“a 7B LLM will do your dishes, o3 won’t” / X https://x.com/abacaj/status/1892623488889831520

“Helix coordinates a 35-DoF action space at 200Hz Controlling everything from individual finger movements to end-effector trajectories, head gaze, and torso posture! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892579000817521092

“Helix is a novel architecture, “System 1, System 2” > System 2 is an internet-pretrained 7B parameter VLM (big brain) > System 1 is an 80M parameter visuomotor policy (fast control) Each system runs on onboard embedded GPUs, making it immediately ready for commercial https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892579188424712682

“Our first customer use case took 12 months – our second, just 30 days Helix is enabling robots to scale with a single neural network On Sunday, we successfully tested robots on-site with the customer! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894781636153405870

“We’re ramping up to ship humanoid robots at unprecedented levels in 2025 If you’re interested in AI and Robotics give us a follow: @Figure_robot Help us spread the word, Like/Repost the below: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894782815981711810

“What’s truly exciting is that these robots can now generally pick up any household item For instance, we asked it to “Pick up the desert item” Helix identifies the toy cactus, chooses the nearest hand, and executes precise motor commands to grasp it securely! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892579136956186947

“Georgia Tech’s research uses Meta’s Project Aria glasses to train humanoid robots with egocentric data. PhD student Simar Kareer developed an algorithm that leverages human data to enhance robot learning, achieving a 400% performance boost with just 90 minutes of recordings. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1893009185299697853

“We’re gonna get westworld far before we get a robot in every home https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1892387711610245138

“Trying my hardest to build an incredible future! Please consider joining one of my companies: > Flying Cars > Humanoid Robots > Weapon Detection Systems” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894438361122967938

EmbodiedEval: Evaluate Multimodal LLMs as Embodied Agents https://embodiedeval.github.io/

“💡 Can a humanoid robot learn to traverse sparse footholds like stepping stones and balancing beams with agility? 🤖 Introducing BeamDojo: Learning Agile Humanoid Locomotion on Sparse Footholds Paper: https://x.com/HuayiWang04/status/1891399614521090415

“New work published by Physical Intelligence ‘Hi Robot’ is a hierarchical vision-language-action system that enables robots to follow complex instructions, adapt to real-time feedback, and reason through tasks using a structured, two-level AI model. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894848736024830296

“Robot Era showcases the STAR1 humanoid robot performing some household tasks. The robot stands 5’7” tall, weighs 139 lb (63 kg), and has a 44 lb (20 kg) payload capacity. Its modular five-finger hand features 12 degrees of freedom with tactile sensing in each finger. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894823202599379018

“Clone Robotics shared Protoclone, a bipedal, musculoskeletal android with over 200 DoF, 1,000+ Myofibers, and 500 sensors A pneumatic architecture will be almost intractable to walk and do dynamic motions, and it also carries a giant off-board pump https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893708416519929913

“Meanwhile in China, EngeinAI’s shorter humanoid PM01 is roaming public spaces. It is 4’6” tall, weighs 40kg, has 24 DoF, a walking speed of 2 m/s, and supports R&D with X86 + NVIDIA Jetson Orin. Price: $13,700. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1893394204442742833

“New Scaling for Humanoid Robotics Coding your way of this won’t work, we simply need a step-change in capabilities to scale to a billion-unit robot level To be successful in dynamic environments such as the home, robots must to able to generalize on-demand https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892578593005289965

“1X has unveiled NEO Gamma, a major leap toward bringing humanoid robots into daily life ⦿ Walks more naturally, can squat to pick up objects ⦿ 10x better hardware reliability, 10 dB quieter ⦿ Improved object manipulation + a custom-built LLM for natural language interaction https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1893014256473473272

“I believe that one day, in the not-so-distant future, you will run an errand and see more humanoids than humans They will be doing everything for you – making coffee, walking the dog, unloading the dishwasher In the limit, they will collapse the price of goods/services” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894462678757986393

“Boston Dynamics is always brewing up something unexpected. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894879271811981411

“It’s cool to see 1X attempt tab ripping and get it done, but it really shows how challenging hand dexterity and manipulation can be. This applies to all advanced five-finger hands we have today. We haven’t even seen a teleoperated robot yet that can consistently handle everyday https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894111873546817621

“Clone Robotics gave a glimpse of Protoclone, the world’s first bipedal, musculoskeletal android The faceless yet anatomically accurate Android has over 200 DoF, 1,000+ Myofibers, and 500 sensors Insane https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1892507545274581434

“Last month, a drone from Skyfire AI was credited with saving a police officer’s life after a dramatic 2 a.m. traffic stop. Many statistics show that AI impacts billions of lives, but sometimes a story still hits me emotionally. Let me share what happened. Skyfire AI, an AI Fund” / X https://x.com/AndrewYNg/status/1892628887856939236

“Small frame, big game! 4’2” tall Unitree G1 is now a kung fu machine. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894429836887953822

“Jeff Cardenas, CEO of Apptronik, says that a humanoid robot contains only 4% of the material used in a car, and Apptronik is aiming for a price below $50K for Apollo. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894478875608175044

“@skcd42 Sheesh – the robot overlords of the future are going to hate us so much🫠” / X https://x.com/rishdotblog/status/1894376205765546229

“NEO, the celebrity tech influencer, unboxes the new Nothing Phone (3a) the way only a humanoid robot can! https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894068871318978837

“putting a 7B LLM on a robot is more interesting than using o3 to solve phd level math problems” / X https://x.com/abacaj/status/1892622993148313747

“American manufacturing services company Jabil will produce Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robots and also test Apollo on the manufacturing lines. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894464763398426870

“Sanctuary AI announced the integration of new tactile sensors into its Phoenix humanoid robot, enhancing its dexterity for fine manipulation. The combination of touch and haptic servoing provides richer data, enabling blind picking, slippage detection, and better force control. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894798992762118454

“Figure’s product line is getting built for high volume this year We have a cracked manufacturing engineering team designing our lines for significant volume We’ll have our robots on this line helping to build more robots Humanoid robots building more robots, which then” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893398459245568433

“Figure’s Helix model uses a System 2 (S2) and System 1 (S1) architecture to separate thinking and acting. ⦿ S2 (The Planner) – starting with a 7B-parameter open-source, open-weight VLM pretrained on internet-scale data, further trained with 500+ hours of robot demonstrations. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1892677115537195416

“Figure posted our first write-up today discussing Helix! The report describes in-depth how we designed Helix including system architecture and additional tests not capture in the release video LMK what you think! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892745401994015226

“The Helix team has been tasked to solve general robotics – a robot in every home We have a ways to go, but this is working Special congrats to @coreylynch and @YevgenChebotar on launching Helix! 🧬🖤 Corey, who leads Helix at Figure, shared a deep dive – worth a read:” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892692966294048897

“Tomorrow, Figure will unveil another significant AI update What we’ll demonstrate is impossible for robotics without an end-to-end neural network such as Helix Team is at peak shipping velocity – let us cook https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894551242262941758

“Tomorrow, Figure will reveal the most significant AI update in our company’s history” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892387141222793256

“Important update: Figure is launching robots into the home Our AI, Helix, is advancing faster than any of us anticipated, accelerating our timeline into the home Therefore, we’ve moved-up our home timeline by 2 years; starting Alpha testing this year https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1895175400160133543

“2025 will be a pivotal year as we start production, ship more robots, and tackle home robotics If you’re interested in AI and Robotics give us a follow: @Figure_robot Help us spread the word, Like/Repost the below: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892579860289130520

“Helix is going to play a pivotal role in solving general robotics 2025 will be a huge year as Figure starts production, ships more robots, and tackles home robotics If you’re interested in reading more in-depth on Helix, we wrote an article: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893708221719744824

“Just visited the new Figure campus, we are 2 weeks away from move-in! We’re going to CRANK out robots https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894128156329873622

“A fleet of Figure 02 robots sorting packages at a customer site. The robots are using Figure’s in-house developed Helix model. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894785514299183513

“The Helix article has hit 30,000 views in the past 24 hours! I hope this article highlights both our dedication to AI at Figure and the incredible talent of our Helix AI team In the limit, Figure is an AI business” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893008825080328601

“Two weeks ago, Figure’s CEO announced the end of their partnership with OpenAI and promised to show the in-house AI development – here we are: Helix is a model that unifies perception, language and learned control to execute humanoid tasks by following natural language prompts. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1892625918255919353

“Another AI update from Figure tomorrow!” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894574312440631532

“Robot Era showcases the STAR1 humanoid robot performing some household tasks. The robot stands 5’7” tall, weighs 139 lb (63 kg), and has a 44 lb (20 kg) payload capacity. Its modular five-finger hand features 12 degrees of freedom with tactile sensing in each finger. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1894823202599379018

“We’ve been working on this project for over a year, aiming to solve general robotics Like a human, Helix understands speech, reasons through problems, and can grasp any object – all without needing training or code In testing, Helix can grab almost any household object!” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892578309344502191

“Helix coordinates a 35-DoF action space at 200Hz Controlling everything from individual finger movements to end-effector trajectories, head gaze, and torso posture! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892579000817521092

“Helix is a novel architecture, “System 1, System 2” > System 2 is an internet-pretrained 7B parameter VLM (big brain) > System 1 is an 80M parameter visuomotor policy (fast control) Each system runs on onboard embedded GPUs, making it immediately ready for commercial https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892579188424712682

“Our first customer use case took 12 months – our second, just 30 days Helix is enabling robots to scale with a single neural network On Sunday, we successfully tested robots on-site with the customer! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894781636153405870

“We’re ramping up to ship humanoid robots at unprecedented levels in 2025 If you’re interested in AI and Robotics give us a follow: @Figure_robot Help us spread the word, Like/Repost the below: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1894782815981711810

“What’s truly exciting is that these robots can now generally pick up any household item For instance, we asked it to “Pick up the desert item” Helix identifies the toy cactus, chooses the nearest hand, and executes precise motor commands to grasp it securely! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892579136956186947

“We introduced Helix at Figure, a new AI Vision-Language-Action model that helps humanoids think like a human would The model lets robots understand voice commands and handle items they’ve never seen before In the limit, Figure is an AI business https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893708199447978336

“Helix coordinates a 35-DoF action space at 200Hz Controlling everything from individual finger movements to end-effector trajectories, head gaze, and torso posture! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892579000817521092

Apple is reportedly exploring humanoid robots | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/12/apple-is-reportedly-exploring-humanoid-robots/

“Physical AI is a civilizational technology. In a few years, intelligent robots will be as many as iPhones. I’d love to see your coolest open-source robotics project: model, simulation, hardware, you name it! Reply with links, and I’ll pick one winner for the NVIDIA GTC Golden https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1892980857255928292

Introducing Aria Gen 2: Unlocking New Research in Machine Perception, Contextual AI, Robotics, and More | Meta Quest Blog | Meta Store https://www.meta.com/blog/project-aria-gen-2-next-generation-egocentric-research-glasses-reality-labs-ai-robotics/

“Meta PARTNR dataset and code ⬇️ https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1894524604900938078

“Today, we’re launching our first technical report! The report details Helix, a generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1892579315461599658

“First, a quick update on these threads: Starting today, I’ll be excluding all robot updates that are TeleOperated by a human with the intention of tricking you it’s autonomous It’s misleading for the general public and not fair to those making real end-to-end progress” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893708176911978803

“In my weekly AI / Robotics write-up, I’ll excluding all robot updates controlled by humans pretending they’re autonomous It’s extremely deceptive. What if someone secretly remote-controlled a self-driving car and never told anyone!” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893490685023780899

“Let me reword this: **Do human-like tasks, fully end-to-end autonomous There’s so much TeleOp faked demo’s happening, it’s getting completely out of control” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1893043858319249821

Meet Phone (3a) Series. First hands-on experience with NEO Gamma. ‪@1X-tech‬ – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjosUoZiWs

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