“T1 showing off its soccer moves – a four-foot-tall robot from Chinese company Booster Robotics. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1914721286653370492
“Kuafu robot from Leju Robotics completed a 5K practice run in preparation for the Beijing Half Marathon on Saturday. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1912911510248235361
“Unitree Robotics has opened a new 107,000-square-foot factory in Hangzhou, just 15 minutes from its headquarters in eastern Zhejiang province. The facility is expected to support the company’s expansion over the next three to five years. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1914950738070983134
“Modern AI models don’t need a strict set of rules to work together — they can figure it out themselves ▪️ Hogwild! inference by @yandexcom is an interesting approach to AI teamwork. It lets multiple instances of the same LLM run in parallel. This is done using shared Key-Value https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/1913729366976332153
Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half-Marathon in Beijing | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/beijing-half-marathon-humanoid-robots/
“Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas says elderly care may be the biggest opportunity for humanoids, given the aging population and labor shortage. “My dream is that my parents will have a robot that helps take care of them so they can age with dignity.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1915184047267226026
“Tiangong robot won the Beijing half marathon with a time of 2 hours 40 minutes – more than twice the time of the men’s race winner. The robot is built by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1913521470397112555
A VLA with Open-World Generalization https://www.pi.website/blog/pi05
“The Jetsons are coming to life 🤖 Physical Intelligence just released a clip of its robots cleaning never-seen-before kitchens & bathrooms It’s the magic of company’s π-0.5 model, which performs high-level planning and actions via hierarchical inference https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1914930115026223208
“Some day in the next decade, we will have robots in every home, every hospital and factory, doing every dull and dangerous jobs with superhuman dexterity. That day will be known as “Thursday”. Not even Turing would dare to dream up our lifetime in his wildest dreams.” / X https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1914681494385360959
“Foundation Robotics founder and CEO Sankaet Pathak says their humanoid relies solely on cameras; adding other sensors introduces noise and complexity that far outweigh the benefits. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1914761734986064354
“At the Shanghai Auto Show, XPeng Chairman and CEO Xiaopeng He strolls with XPeng’s IRON humanoid robot to showcase the company’s latest EVs and eVTOL aircraft. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1915105185351024995
“South Korean company Tesollo released a clip showcasing its DG-5F humanoid hand, designed to replicate natural human hand movements It features 20 independently controlled joints, a 12kg enveloping grasp capacity, and a 3kg pinching grip capacity https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1913987090489950213
“Figure-02 Humanoid Robot (tap, hold, load 4K) https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1914353722962137548
“Persona’s CEO dropped a teaser image of their first-gen humanoid robot. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1913829163049656806
“XPeng’s IRON robot is heading to the Shanghai Auto Show in an XPeng X9 electric minivan. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1914755272637342166
“New video of the DG-5F humanoid hand from South Korean company Tesollo. It features 20 independently controlled joints, a 12kg enveloping grasp capacity, and a 3kg pinching grip capacity. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1912959733050605991
“The humanoid robot half-marathon in Beijing just started! https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1913395610138579143
“UBTech’s humanoid meandering athletically in preparation for the Beijing Half Marathon. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1913278926115451288
“Humanoid startups face growing cost challenges and supply chain uncertainty with tariff hikes on Chinese goods. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1912973026901344648
Japan’s robot learns to smell and sniff out danger before it strikes https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ainos-and-ugo-unlock-olfactory-sensing
“We got a robot to clean up homes that were never seen in its training data! Our new model, π-0.5, aims to tackle open-world generalization. We took our robot into homes that were not in the training data and asked it to clean kitchens and bedrooms. More below⤵️ https://x.com/physical_int/status/1914724966362440148
“Optimus gets a shoulder joint upgrade. The Gen-3 forearm looks huge. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1914794083777961994
“Fine-tuning robot reward models with limited human preferences often degrades performance on the original task, a problem called catastrophic reward forgetting (CRF). This paper proposes FLoRA (Preference-based Reinforcement Learning via Low-Rank Style Adaptation), which avoids https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1915003720225480708
“PNDbotics’ humanoid Adam now walks more naturally and efficiently thanks to RL-based control. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1913280910314869012
“Phantom by Foundation Robotics is evolving – legs upgrade incoming. [no sound] https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1913297708082958767
“10). Advances in Embodied Agents, Smart Cities, and Earth Science This paper surveys how spatial intelligence manifests across disciplines by connecting human spatial cognition with how LLMs handle spatial memory, representations, and reasoning. https://x.com/dair_ai/status/1914674606910157102
“NYU researchers have introduced RUKA, an open‑source, tendon‑driven robotic hand with 15 DOF that costs only $1.3 k and can operate for 20 straight hours without any performance loss. It learns joint‑to-actuator and fingertip‑to‑actuator models from motion‑capture data. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1913295130259525823
“Elon on Q1 call about permanent magnet supply from China: Optimus is affected by the magnet supply issue from China, because Optimus actuators in the arms do use permanent magnets. Tesla as a whole doesn’t need to use permanent magnets, but the robot arm needs the smallest https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1914827392629268888
“Elon on Q1 earnings call: “We expect to have thousands of Optimus bots working in Tesla factories by the end of this year, doing useful work. Expect to scale Optimus up faster than any product in history. I feel confident about getting to a million per year by 2029 or 2030.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1914800187924791355
(4) First look: XPeng Iron walking/locomotion at Auto Shanghai (Apr/2025) – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHFnGwo5wzY
