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“Hit a weekly production record for NEO Gamma this week. Amazing work by the 1X team. Driving down that $/hour of highly diverse data” / X https://x.com/BerntBornich/status/1908444158815019189
“@1x_tech The same neural network from above can also load your dishwasher https://x.com/ericjang11/status/1908192221939351867
“1X CEO: Hit a weekly production record for NEO Gamma this week. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1909349153005789587
“Clone uses McKibben muscles for actuation. The braided sleeve transforms radial pressure from bladder inflation into pulling force. Protoclone currently uses air pressure; they plan to switch to hydraulic pressure for better efficiency and performance. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910070209693839528
US engineers’ AI converts simple text into walking robots in a day https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/robots-from-text-using-ai
“Kawasaki just unveiled CORELO — a four-legged concept robot designed to carry humans Currently, it can only stand and pose, but the company plans to unveil a functional version in the coming years CORELO could transform all-terrain transportation! https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1909154355900481961
“THEMIS, a humanoid robot from Westwood Robotics, took a remote-controlled walk at IRCA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan. The company, headquartered in LA, was founded in 2018 by @RoMeLaUCLA researchers. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1795979367685779726
“Deepak Pathak, CEO and Co-Founder of Skild AI, talks about the major shift in robotics: from traditional control systems to learning by experience. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910010200238743815
“Bob McGrew, Former Research Chief at OpenAI: “Manipulation is the hard problem we need to solve to make humanoid robots useful, not locomotion. One video of a humanoid slowly performing tasks with its hands is worth a dozen clips of choreographed routines.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1907847588835139964
“1/11 🤖 Could humanoid robots be the answer to global labor challenges? Figure AI @Figure_robot is betting on it! Let’s explore their journey. 🧵👇 #FigureAI #Robotics #FutureofWork https://x.com/UsmanAnzaar/status/1908579850224279819
“SF-based Physical Intelligence demonstrated its vision-language action model on China’s AgiBot The single model enabled AgiBot to perform diverse tasks its humanoid hands and two-finger grippers It also adjusted the robot’s behavior in real time https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1908913508281995533
“Bernt Bornich says the distinction between digital AI and robotics AI will go away – robots help AI learn by testing hypotheses in the real world. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910059116019728656
“Sanctuary AI plans to sell its Apptronik stake for $125M, which it acquired for $10M in 2022. Sanctuary is also planning to raise an additional $50M. — The Logic Apptronik built Sanctuary’s first prototype robots. Apptronik recently raised $403M from Google and other investors https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1909307726586585496
“On his China trip, YouTuber IShowSpeed checked out EngineAI’s PM01 robot showing off its dance skills up close. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1908581839184552375
“The Optimus team is working on applying reinforcement learning (RL) to manipulation tasks. One of the best validations of RL for manipulation is OpenAI’s 2019 project, which trained a robotic hand to solve a Rubik’s Cube. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1907896594672103527
“Westwood Robotics has unveiled THEMIS V2, a 1.6-meter (5’3”) tall robot with 40 degrees of freedom. It features enhanced 6-DoF arms, advanced 7-DoF end-effectors, a body-mounted stereo camera, and up to 200 TOPS of onboard AI computing power. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1909129269571469434
“I took fate into my own hands. Here are the AidanBench results for Quasar Alpha, Optimus Alpha, Llama-4 Scout and Llama-4 Maverick: Since the GPT-4.1 is no longer a joke, my guess is that Quasar Alpha is GPT-4.1, Optimus Alpha is GPT-4.1-mini. Llama-4 scores are pretty bad for https://x.com/scaling01/status/1910499781601874008
Samsung and Google Cloud Expand Partnership, Bring Gemini to Ballie, a Home AI Companion Robot by Samsung – Samsung Global Newsroom https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-and-google-cloud-expand-partnership-bring-gemini-to-ballie-a-home-ai-companion-robot
“Another Chinese co, Pudu Robotics, revealed a semi-humanoid called “FlashBot Arm” With 40 kg lifting capacity and 7 DoF arms, it’s aimed at service-focused use cases like object manipulation and delivery https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1908913643187495025
“DeepSeek, UniTree, and DJI – feel much more threatening to US tech supremacy than Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu ever did.” / X https://x.com/draecomino/status/1910414097994448908
A New Era for Generalist Robotics: The Rise of Humanoids | NVIDIA GTC 2025 – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmD22FNOAY4
“based on Aider polyglot, AidanBench, my own benchmark and the statement from Kevin Weil I’m calling it now: Quasar Alpha is GPT-4.1 Optimus Alpha is either another version of GPT-4.1 or GPT-4.1-mini coding performance is still somewhat lacking: on par with DeepSeekV3, slightly” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1910654379780170047
“Top stories in robotics today: – Kawasaki’s rideable, all-terrain wolf robot – Hyundai buying Boston Dynamics’ robots – MIT’s inflatable robot for search & rescue – H2 Clipper to build airships with bots – Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://x.com/TheRundownAI/status/1909259945712693657
“New video of Protoclone by Clone Robotics – a synthetic human with over 200 degrees of freedom and over 1,000 artificial muscles. It’s gonna look wild once it starts walking. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1910035603791700129
“One of the most important things to figure out is how to make AI work additive to humans. Studies in medicine and creativity keep finding that AI alone outperforms humans and AI. I don’t think that needs to be the case, but developing better approaches requires serious R&D work.” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1908311179211972770
“Chinese company Unitree released a new humanoid hand called “Dex5” —Each hand, weighing 1 kg, comes with 20 DOF —All joints enable smooth force control —Fingers can be replaced —Available with 94 tactile sensors (optional) https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1908913620798300212
“Vancouver-based Sanctuary AI demoed their efforts with sim-to-real transfer In this clip, their hydraulic hand can be seen executing an in-hand reorientation policy under a 500g load, trained in simulation https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1908913441009451137
“Optimus job opening for Technical Animator was posted last week: “Optimus simulation team is responsible for building core components to visualize all aspects of Optimus… for understanding, testing bot functionality, and generating synthetic data for training deep NNs.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1909312550564774249
“World models are a puzzle piece for the future of AI They are gen AI systems that learn simulation of real environments to: – predict future states – simulate actions internally – support planning and decision-making All inside the “mental model” without constant real-world https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/1910467892929585663
“Tesla made Optimus walk better with reinforcement learning in simulation and is now working to apply the same technique to manipulation tasks. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1909312554838769813
“Key takeaways from NYT article on 1X ⦿ 1X plans to deploy NEO in more than 100 homes this year ⦿ They will build “call centers” for remote operations ⦿ Data collected won’t be used for AI training until 24 hours later, giving customers time to delete unwanted footage https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1908274713547465001
“1X “call centers” for home robot assistance is a bold idea. Autonomy progression: Mostly human-assisted ➔ Sometimes human-assisted ➔ Fully autonomous 1X is pushing for a viable user experience all along this journey – it will be industry-defining if they get it right. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1909669512640970853
“Figure Update: We just demonstrated Figure 02’s fully autonomous operation on BMW’s production line Our robots are performing real work, advancing Helix AI and strengthening our end-to-end autonomy They’ve been permanently deployed at the BMW plant! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1908913395996238276
“New video of 1X’s NEO: fully autonomous. A single set of neural network weights performs various tasks and also coordinates full-body motion. Instead of solving one task at a time, 1X is training for general autonomy across diverse, unstructured home scenarios. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1908218838292062376
““We are entering the era of labor abundance.” Bernt Bornich of 1X believes that robots need to grow up in the home, like humans do, with data diversity. Factories have been designed to reduce diversity, so they are a deprived birthplace for physical AGI. https://x.com/FutureJurvetson/status/1909995466588295400
“Figure is the ultimate deployment vector for AGI https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1909266695933599923
