“21/ @sundarpichai: “I’m really excited about the next phase of our partnership as we work together on agentic AI, robotics and bringing the benefits of AI to more people around the world.”” / X https://x.com/AtomSilverman/status/1902087731100209624
“UCSF created a BCI that enabled a paralyzed man to control a robotic arm using only his thoughts—for 7 months straight! It detects neural signals and converts them into commands—with an AI model—for the robotic arm to execute https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1901303433644106062
Accelerate Generalist Humanoid Robot Development with NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1 | NVIDIA Technical Blog
Accelerate Generalist Humanoid Robot Development with NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1
“GR00T N1 Whitepaper: https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1902117481000701970
“GR00T N1 open model weights on HuggingFace: https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1902117485752779077
“Glimpse of real and simulated Atlas during Jensen’s GTC keynote. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1902085611802308905
“Jensen opens the keynote with this background. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1902046500332642344
“So far, we only have impressions from polished demos – we need evaluation benchmarks for humanoids. That said, product viability extends beyond technical metrics. A great product also needs a great user experience, a robust ecosystem and affordability.” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1902409021950472423
“The updated Digit has a more curvy torso design; it also has a black extension at the back, likely for additional batteries. New version Previous version https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1901672061652910349
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1 for Complex Manipulation Tasks – YouTube
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots – YouTube
“UCR trains its robots with a pipeline built atop NVIDIA Isaac GR00T, Isaac Lab, and Isaac Sim, making them real-world ready with a 95% deployment success rate by bridging the gap between simulation and reality. ⦿ Real2sim: Brings real-world actuator dynamics into high-fidelity https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1902237813460091196
“Jensen just announced Newton, an open-source physics engine for robotics simulation developed by NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Disney Research. ⦿ Built on NVIDIA Warp, it offers GPU-accelerated performance and compatibility with frameworks like MuJoCo and Isaac Lab. ⦿ Features https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1902091038342484239
“Figure 02 head vs. what looks like the head of Figure 03. A different design and much smaller camera lenses. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1900955167190921616
“Nvidia just released GR00T-N1-2B on Hugging Face open foundation model for generalized humanoid robot reasoning and skills https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1902124817228194289
“Figure recently unveiled our high-rate manufacturing facility called BotQ Big shout out to Vadim Chernyak and Brian Mick leading the charge here and an incredible team behind them If you get time, read our write-up: https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1902364118948208920
“Chinese robotics company Dobot unveiled its first humanoid Atom can handle delicate objects like deformable cups and navigate unstructured environments to execute tasks like moving boxes and files It uses an operational skill model called ROM-1 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1901303488115560817
“My conversation with @adcock_brett at the @Abundance360 summit is now live. We covered how: ° Figure robots are already working in BMW factories & improving every 12-16 months ° Humanoid robots will soon cost as little as $20K-$30K—and keep getting cheaper. They will enter our https://x.com/PeterDiamandis/status/1901734007454216453
“Figure 03?” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1900633212180984093
“Company: “We’re working on humanoid robotics, and we have a functional prototype!” Investors: “Silence, nerds! Take all our money right now!” Company: “Well…” Investors: “Enough talk… deal sealed.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1901707217403019751
“Agents in the world of bits (computer use) and world of atoms (robotics) are the future. Stephanie gives a great talk, check it out!” / X https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1902405203338637438
“✨ Dobot Atom: Our First Humanoid Robot! 🤖 Why is Dobot Atom so special? Let’s break it down: ✅ Dexterous Manipulation ✅ Straight-Knee Walking ✅ Edge Computing and ROM-1 Model Are you as excited as we are? Let us know your thoughts! 👇 🔥 #Dobot #HumanoidRobot #AI https://x.com/DobotRobotics/status/1899787919151489515
“Chinese automaker Xpeng Motors may invest up to $13.8 billion in humanoid robots. He Xiaopeng: “XPeng Motors has been deeply involved in the humanoid robotics industry for five years and may continue for another 20 years, investing an additional 50 billion yuan or even https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1900219602413768849
“Like clockwork, another Chinese humanoid drops. Beijing-based NOETIX Robotics has unveiled the N2, a 3’7” tall humanoid weighing 20 kg (44 lb), with 18 DOF for the whole body and an NVIDIA Jetson installed. The price will start at ¥39,900 ($5,500). https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1900674346294854118
“Gemini Robotics model is able to generalize to tasks it has never seen before in training. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1900262977582096576
“California-based Vexa Robotics unveiled Anna, a general-purpose household robot Still an early prototype, Anna uses LLMs, VLMs, and VLAs to understand language, perceive surroundings, and automate chores Vexa hopes to sell it for under $5K! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1901303411150123327
“Elon: ⦿ There will be a massive number of robots in 10 years ⦿ You’ll be able to put snap-on parts on Optimus to change its look ⦿ 20% chance of killer robots annihilating humanity, 80% chance we’ll have an age of abundance ⦿ Whoever controls the AI chips wins the AI race https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1902252391396995138
“Excited to announce GR00T N1, the world’s first open foundation model for humanoid robots! We are on a mission to democratize Physical AI. The power of general robot brain, in the palm of your hand – with only 2B parameters, N1 learns from the most diverse physical action dataset https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1902117478496616642
“Hello world, meet Anna – our first prototype of an affordable, general-purpose household robot 🤖 It uses a combination of LLMs, VLMs, and VLAs to understand language, perceive surroundings, and automate 🏠 chores seamlessly. We chose the wheeled form factor over bipedal for https://x.com/ajhai/status/1899528923303809217
“Today we’re introducing: BotQ BotQ is our high-volume robot manufacturing facility Initially designed to produce 12,000 robots per year, it will scale up to support a fleet of 100,000 https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/1900923173509755265
“Just when you thought it peaked – Unitree G1 levels up again! https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1902228318184993076
“NEO Gamma vacuuming the floor at NVIDIA GTC Would you rather have a vacuum cleaning bot or a versatile humanoid that can use your manual vacuum and other cleaning tools in addition to tackling many other home chores? You’ll have to wait for the latter. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1902129279905001738
“When I started Figure there were 3 main risks: 1/ Building very capable and reliable high degree-of-freedom humanoid hardware (fully electric with hands) 2/ Commanding the robot using neural networks (you can’t code your way out of this) 3/ If you want to ship billion of” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1901469443911553343
MagicLab’s humanoid runs outdoors for 4 minutes straight in latest test https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/magiclabs-ai-powered-humanoid-runs-outdoors-for-four-minutes-in-new-footage?group=test_b
BotQ: A High-Volume Manufacturing Facility for Humanoid Robots https://www.figure.ai/news/botq
“Meet Gemini Robotics: our latest AI models designed for a new generation of helpful robots. 🤖 Based on Gemini 2.0, they bring capabilities such as better reasoning, interactivity, dexterity and generalization into the physical world. 🧵 https://x.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1899839624068907335
“Jim Fan at NVIDIA GTC: “This year is the year for humanoid robots.” Hyped for Jensen’s keynote tomorrow! [10am PT] https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1901738197333516555
“At GTC 2025, Jensen Huang made several AI and robotics reveals: —Next-gen GPUs: Blackwell Ultra (2025), Vera Rubin (2026), and Feynman (2028) —GR00T N1 open AI for humanoids —DGX Spark & DGX Station personal AI computers —Newton robotics physics engine https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1902249965780406666
“Nvidia dropping a 2B open foundation model for humanoid robots on the hub!🔥 https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1902120408742080558
“Figure also moved to our new HQ in San Jose! This facility will support manufacturing, fleet ops, and overall engineering/design build-out We’re prepping to ship thousands of humanoids capable of handling complex tasks like these at 2x the speed https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1901303309903986744
“4x humanoid robots with individual neural networks performing small package logistics Figure will deploy thousands of robots doing this https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1902739167475609938
“The data paradox of humanoid robots: The biggest sets of data exist in the hardest environments to deploy in (homes), while simpler environments (industrial) that are more attuned to today’s technology have the least data. [at 10:00 in the video]” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1902245213185409047
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots | Research https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2025-03_nvidia-isaac-gr00t-n1-open-foundation-model-humanoid-robots
“Google dropped two AI models to advance robotics with interactivity, dexterity, and generalization: —Gemini Robotics, a VLA model, handles unfamiliar tasks like spelling words with scrabble tiles —Gemini Robotics ER brings enhanced spatial reasoning https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1901303242459365592
“NVIDIA announced GR00T N1, the first fully customizable open-source humanoid robot foundation model, designed to advance general-purpose robotics. ⦿ A dual-system AI inspired by human cognition: System-1 handles fast, intuitive actions, while System-2 enables methodical https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1902083623207211507
“Elon: “Starship departs for Mars at the end of next year, carrying Optimus.” Optimus will help us build and sustain a base on Mars. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1900964430789439654
“Figure showcases a part of their automated volume production line, initially designed to produce 12,000 robots per year. Figure plans to scale their humanoid robot fleet to 100K within four years. THE ROBOTS ARE COMING! https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1900950954163257651
“Brett Adcock on dexterous manipulation: This is a NN problem, not a control problem. You can’t write code your way out of this; you can’t hire PhDs with a robot & solve every problem. You have to ingest human-like data in the robot through a NN, and able to then imitate humans. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1901779315156795733
“Boston Dynamics’ Atlas showcases reinforcement learning policies trained using a motion capture suit, developed in partnership with RAI Institute. Both Boston Dynamics and RAI Institute are owned by Hyundai Group. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1902366093441892546
“Open-source code repo: https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1902117483575963866
“Open Physical AI dataset release: https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1902117487346643382
“Move a robotic arm just by imagining? UCSF scientists created a brain-computer interface that lets a person with paralysis control the arm’s movement for seven months straight, a first in the field. https://x.com/UCSF/status/1897710702946926594
“The math here is that a little under 50% of global GDP is human labor Humanoids are synthetic humans; it is the biggest TAM of our lifetime by a long shot Humanoids will build other humanoids who will then go out and do construction, manufacturing, help in the home Perhaps” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1900197901583999374
“Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s CPO, says that the next obvious step for AGI beyond the digital world is robotics and real-world impact. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1901544115000742364
“A fleet of Digit robots is demonstrating six hours of autonomous logistics operations at ProMat 2025 in Chicago today. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1901671442871402999
“EngineAI PM01 executes the Axe Gang dance moves from the movie Kung Fu Hustle. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1901524004709789806
“Bill Gross blown away by @Figure_robot His TED talk on timing and startups is a must-watch, I consider it one the most important ‘natural laws’ I’ve ever encountered for determining startup success. https://x.com/markjeffrey/status/1900815947394674962
“Fourier announces ActionNet, a large-scale bimanual manipulation dataset with 30K teleoperated trajectories (~140 hours) of humanoid interaction in randomized tabletop scenes. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1901542293263561190
“Optimus and Kim Kardashian model together for Perfect Magazine. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1900681778496762211
“Today we’re introducing: BotQ BotQ is our high-volume robot manufacturing facility Initially designed to produce 12,000 robots per year, it will scale up to support a fleet of 100,000 https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/1900923173509755265
