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Sam Altman on his brother’s podcast: ⦿ Humanoid robots are the dream. I really care about that. In five to ten years, we’ll have great humanoid robots. ⦿ It’s been a hard mechanical engineering challenge – even if we had a perfect brain right now, I don’t think we have the https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1935135554875834674
Never say never,”” OpenAI’s Sam Altman response on if the company would help the Pentagon develop a new weapons system. https://x.com/MsKristenTalman/status/1910483410545504474
Amazon prepares to test humanoid robots for deliveries, The Information reports | Reuters https://archive.md/o682X
Amazon’s Zoox opens its first major robotaxi production facility | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/amazons-zoox-opens-its-first-major-robotaxi-production-facility/
Our vision is for AI that uses world models to adapt in new and dynamic environments and efficiently learn new skills. We’re sharing V-JEPA 2, a new world model with state-of-the-art performance in visual understanding and prediction. V-JEPA 2 is a 1.2 billion-parameter model, https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/1932808881627148450
#NVIDIAIsaac Sim 5.0 and Isaac Lab 2.2 are now available in early developer preview on Github. 🎉 These releases give #Robotics developers early access to cutting-edge tools to simulate, train, and validate robots in a physics-based simulation environment. What’s new? https://x.com/NVIDIARobotics/status/1934768379652665403
300 million humanoid robots are coming – and here are the companies that will benefit | Morningstar https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250618137/300-million-humanoid-robots-are-coming-and-here-are-the-companies-that-will-benefit
Nvidia believes physical AI systems are a $50 trillion market opportunity – GamesBeat https://gamesbeat.com/nvidia-believes-physical-ai-systems-are-a-50-trillion-market-opportunity/
Watch Helix’s neural network do 60 minutes of uninterrupted logistics work Helix now incorporates touch and short-term memory and it’s performance continuously improves over time https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/1931391490967928936
Jensen at GTC Paris keynote: “”Humanoid robotics is going to potentially be one of the largest industries ever.”” “”The idea that there would be a billion robots is a very sensible thing.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1933246446297624607
Nvidia launched Issac Sim 5.0 and Issac Lab 2.2 in early preview on GitHub These open frameworks now come with extensions for synthetic data generation and robot models — streamlining how devs build, train, and test AI robots in physics-based simulations https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1934881540263018666
🚀 Introducing Cosmos-Predict2! Our most powerful open video foundation model for Physical AI. Cosmos-Predict2 significantly improves upon Predict1 in visual quality, prompt alignment, and motion dynamics—outperforming popular open-source video foundation models. It’s openly https://x.com/qsh_zh/status/1933024567011995865
Elon Musk’s xAI in Talks to Raise $4.3 Billion in Equity Funding – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/musk-s-xai-in-talks-to-raise-4-3-billion-in-equity-funding?embedded-checkout=true
BREAKING at #BAAI Conference 2025: BAAI unveils RoboOS 2.0 (cross-embodied brain and cerebrum collaboration framework) & RoboBrain 2.0! Outperforms mainstream embodied AI models -World’s strongest open-source embodied brain model!#Robotics #EmbodiedAI #OpenSource https://x.com/BAAIBeijing/status/1931916124473499676
1X World Model Scaling Evaluation for Robots
https://x.com/1x_tech/status/1934634700758520053
Denmark is using robotic boats to surveil for maritime threats – Fast Company https://www.fastcompany.com/91353311/why-danish-military-using-crewless-vessels-north-baltic-seas
Swedish Gripen E flies combat missions using onboard AI system https://interestingengineering.com/military/gripen-e-ai-first-combat-flight-saab-helsing
Robotic heart transplant surgery performed at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center | BCM https://www.bcm.edu/news/robotic-heart-transplant-surgery-performed-at-baylor-st-lukes-medical-center
Brett Adcock – Humanoid robots are the ultimate deployment vector for AGI : r/singularity https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1lf966l/brett_adcock_humanoid_robots_are_the_ultimate/
Humanoid robots are the ultimate deployment vector for AGI https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1935394565286154595
Introducing the V-JEPA 2 world model and new benchmarks for physical reasoning https://ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-2-world-model-benchmarks/
China unveils a new brain for humanoids. The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) has announced RoboBrain 2.0, an open-source general-purpose AI model designed to power humanoids and other general-purpose robots. BAAI is already collaborating with 20 Chinese https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1934326215382569132
The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence dropped RoboBrain 2.0, an open-source AI for humanoids/robots It ingests multi-image and long videos as inputs and delivers capabilities like spatial perception, temporal perception, and scene reasoning https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1934518213687029851
1X showcased 1XWM, a ‘world model’ that simulates a realistic, interactive world around a virtual robot With a few initial real-world frames and action trajectories, it simulates the result of those exact actions, including the physics of objects https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1934881641224196183
AnimaX: Animating the Inanimate in 3D with Joint Video-Pose Diffusion Models https://anima-x.github.io/
Bernt Børnich says teleoperation data and synthetic data are like a crutch to bootstrap your way to robots learning in the real world. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1933761018897052006
🚀Exciting News! We’re thrilled to introduce OpenWBT — the open-source, whole-body VR teleoperation system designed for humanoid across various robot types & virtual/physical worlds! 🤖✨ 💡Developed through collaboration between Galbot and Tsinghua University researchers! 🔥 https://x.com/GalbotRobotics/status/1932082760736190588
A month ago, Nvidia released the wheeled nursing humanoid robot Nurabot, which was built by Foxconn and other companies. It is now running in hospitals such as Taichung Veterans General Hospital, and dozens of them will be deployed by the end of this year. These robots will serve https://x.com/CyberRobooo/status/1934270147336003862
Drones and robotic dogs represent the future of the Army at military parade – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMNYuzDhtHo
A fascinating move in the humanoid space: Medical exoskeleton pioneer @ExoWandercraft is partnering with auto giant @RenaultGroup to co-develop the “”Calvin”” industrial humanoid robot. This marks a major strategic pivot, leveraging their deep expertise in AI-driven, https://x.com/humanoidsdaily/status/1931310556775874624
These are the wheeled robots we shipped for commercial use! No more wheeled units are being built; we are only building legged robots and will decommission wheeled units by year-end. https://x.com/sankaet/status/1932847024350888210
RT @peteflorence: Last Spring I took off from Google DeepMind, and I’ve been heads-down building since with an amazing team. Excited to sh…”” / X https://x.com/Fraser/status/1935021462865477899
San Mateo, California–based Generalist showcases their real-time, end-to-end neural network that controls robots at 100Hz for dexterous manipulation tasks. The model handles fine-motor control, bi-manual coordination, tool use, and generalization across arms and environments. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1935168590623183128
RT @LerrelPinto: We have developed a new tactile sensor, called e-Flesh, with a simple working principle: measure deformations in 3D printa…”” / X https://x.com/ylecun/status/1935466674242666831
Training robots without robots: Smart glasses capture first-person task demos https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-robots-smart-glasses-capture-person.html
AI Cleaning Robot Firm Raises $800 Million to Sell Machines For a Low Monthly Cost — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-cleaning-robot-firm-raises-800-million-sell-machines-low-monthly-cost
Alexandr Wang says you’d be able to downlink your consciousness into a humanoid robot and experience the real world through its physical body. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1933576946295976335
ANYbotics launches Gas Leak and Presence Detection for ANYmal inspection robot – The Robot Report https://www.therobotreport.com/anybotics-launches-gas-leak-presence-detection-anymal-inspection-robot/
Boston Dynamics robots dance to ‘Don’t Stop Me Now’ for ‘America’s Got Talent’ audition | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/boston-dynamics-robots-dance-to-dont-stop-me-now-for-americas-got-talent-audition/
Brett Adcock says Figure 03 is 2–3 months ahead of schedule. It’s already walking and performing some autonomous tasks in the lab and will be unveiled later this year. @GoingBallistic5, who saw Figure 03 in person this week, says, “This is clearly the bot you want to scale” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1933773378948903345
Chongqing drone show sets Guinness record – Chinadaily.com.cn https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202506/18/WS68527e44a310a04af22c70fc.html
Gecko Reaches Unicorn Status as Customer Demand Surges Around its Build and Modernization Capabilities | Gecko Robotics https://www.geckorobotics.com/news/gecko-reaches-unicorn-status
Humanoid Robots Is The ‘Space Race Of Our Time,’ Says Apptronik CEO Jeff Cardenas https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2025/05/31/humanoid-robots-is-the-space-race-of-our-time-says-apptronik-ceo-jeff-cardenas/
LeRobot worldwide hackathon demos are starting to drop: Robots sifting pearls with chopsticks, swatting flies, butlering plates. Creativity levels off the charts! https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1934273055507059144
LUS 2 by Lumos Robotics: Lying flat on the floor to vertical in 1 second. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1933896521763938489
LUS1 from Lumos Robotics can spring back to its feet in just one second—fast, sharp, and built for action. Lumos Robotics prioritizes versatile humanoids capable of mimicking human motion and problem-solving, and its LUS1 is designed for adaptability in unstructured https://x.com/reborn_agi/status/1932825118641737816
Redwood AI was fine-tuned to enable NEO to autonomously dribble a soccer ball using the RL controller. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1933014077363880347
Redwood NEO’s AI https://x.com/1x_tech/status/1932474830840082498
Robots are rising. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1935207035009909053
Robots to the rescue: Miniature robots offer new hope for search and rescue operations https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-robots-miniature.html
RT @NielsRogge: Participating at the @LeRobotHF worldwide hackathon today in Paris 🇫🇷 Very cool to learn about VLAs and training your own…”” / X https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1933946029222830142
RT @S_Ishimaru: Current Work of Team npaka studio. LeRobot Worldwide Hackathon. #LeRobotWorldwideHackathon #lerobot https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1933863930201538789
RT @simonkalouche: You don’t need humanoids to do dexterous manipulation. Robots are limited by intelligence, not because they’re not sha…”” / X https://x.com/E0M/status/1935161483815698536
RT @this_is_surabhi: we are building a mini glambot here at @lossfunk for the @LeRobotHF hackathon! @k7agar has been wrestling with invers…”” / X https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1933928512148099085
RT @Thom_Wolf: Someone is building a UNO playing robot during the @LeRobotHF hackathon this weekend Finally! I’ve been asking for this fo…”” / X https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1934294789358567853
RT @xecus: We’re exploring whether a robot can become a tea master — that’s our hackathon challenge! #LeRobotWorldwideHackathon #lerobot h…”” / X https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1933924298433212423
We at @sparkcapital are thrilled to support @GeneralistAI_. The team is simultaneously advancing the frontiers of data, models, and hardware as they work to make general purpose robots a reality. They’re sharing a glimpse of where things are today. More to come.”” / X https://x.com/Fraser/status/1935022598485852304
World’s first embodied intelligent robot 4S store set to open in Beijing E-Town in August – Global Times https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202506/1336012.shtml
New robotics paper that combines symbolic search + neural learning to build compositional models that generalize to new tasks. A neural grammar for a planning programming language.”” / X https://x.com/ndea/status/1935484273370501217
CLONE Closed-Loop Whole-Body Humanoid Teleoperation for Long-Horizon Tasks
https://humanoid-clone.github.io/
IIT demonstrates that a humanoid robot can fly – Talk iit https://opentalk.iit.it/en/iit-demonstrates-that-a-humanoid-robot-can-fly/
World’s first flying humanoid robot with jet engines debuts in Italy https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/flying-humanoid-robot-uses-jet-thrust
UPDATE: This video was from last Saturday – robot speed was 4.05 seconds/package Yesterday, I saw it running at 3.54 seconds/package That’s a 13% speed-up in just 6 days 🤯 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1933970257028530514
Hexagon launches AEON, a humanoid built for industry https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hexagon-launches-aeon-a-humanoid-built-for-industry-302482236.html
Hexagon reveals its humanoid robot and showcases a prototype on stage. Sweden-based Hexagon AB, a global leader in industrial software and sensor technologies, has introduced AEON – a humanoid robot designed for error-prone, repetitive tasks such as equipment inspection, https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1935126478527807496
Sojo Industries raises $40M to scale mobile manufacturing lines – The Robot Report https://www.therobotreport.com/sojo-industries-raises-40m-to-scale-mobile-manufacturing-lines/
This humanoid robot could help with labor gaps, its developers say https://www.yahoo.com/news/humanoid-robot-could-help-labor-144426629.html
Today, Figure officially no longer has a Controls division The entire Controls team is now part of Helix, helping to accelerate our AI roadmap”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1934641122565099919
Humanoid Bot Roundtable w/ Figure CEO Brett Adcock https://x.com/herbertong/status/1933661039838834953
Meet SO-101, next-gen robot arm for all, by @huggingface 🤗 Enables smooth takeover to boost AI capabilities, faster assembly (20mn), same affordable price ($100 per arm) 🤯 Get yours today! Links in thread below 👇 https://x.com/RemiCadene/status/1916751964807057515
RT @burhansebin: Kicking off the Le Robot Hackathon Miami with amazing fireside chat with @ClementDelangue from @huggingface! @LeRobotHF…”” / X https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1933914952697352408
RT @PTrubey: The Los Angeles Hugging Face LeRobot hackathon starts! https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1933945725630431536
Disney’s cute little robot joined Jensen on stage at GTC Paris. Jensen says that due to agents and robots, inference workloads are going to explode. He is bullish on Europe, saying the amount of AI infrastructure built in Europe will increase by 10x in the next couple of years. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1933273723102261317
Nvidia and Samsung invest in Skild AI, boosting robotics innovation | Digital Watch Observatory https://dig.watch/updates/nvidia-and-samsung-invest-in-skild-ai-boosting-robotics-innovation
Nvidia open-sourced Gr00t N1.5 3B, a foundation model for humanoid reasoning skills It’s available under a commercially permissive license with a full fine-tuning tutorial to use it with Hugging Face’s LeRobot SO-101 Arm https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1933072152363762035
Exclusive: Nvidia, Foxconn in talks to deploy humanoid robots at Houston AI server making plant | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-foxconn-talks-deploy-humanoid-robots-houston-ai-server-making-plant-2025-06-20/
Our models need to run in real time on real robots, but inference with big VLAs takes a long time. We developed Real-Time Action Chunking (RTC) to enable real-time inference with flow matching for the π0 and π0.5 VLAs! More in the thread👇 https://x.com/physical_int/status/1932113398961201245
