I’ve been a bit quiet on X recently. The past year has been a transformational experience. Grok-4 and Kimi K2 are awesome, but the world of robotics is a wondrous wild west. It feels like NLP in 2018 when GPT-1 was published, along with BERT and a thousand other flowers that https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1944443447953498285
“these results were eye-opening for me… chatgpt agent performed better than i expected on some pretty realistic investment banking tasks”
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ChatGPT agent for investment banking:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1946074958238765503
Citi and Ant International Pilot AI-Enabled Forecasting Solution to Enhance FX Risk Management for Airline Customers
https://www.citigroup.com/global/news/press-release/2025/citi-ant-international-ai-solution-enhance-fx-risk-management-airline-customers
Citi, Ant International pilot AI-powered FX tool for clients to help cut hedging costs | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/citi-ant-international-pilot-ai-powered-fx-tool-clients-help-cut-hedging-costs-2025-07-18/
A humanoid robot policy trained solely on synthetic data generated by a world model. Research Scientist Joel Jang presents NVIDIA’s DreamGen pipeline: ⦿ Post-train the world model Cosmos-Predict2 with a small set of real teleoperation demos. ⦿ Prompt the world model to https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1945569893048619201
Eric Jang explains that 1X’s world model is a video generation model at its core, but had to be retrained from scratch to make it action-controllable. He also notes that simulated people in the world model might eventually pass the Turing test. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1944975679692460288
Eric Jang explains why 1X is building a world model and what it can do that rigid-body simulators can’t. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1943555624501121467
> Unitree has completed 10 funding rounds to date, with its latest round pushing its valuation to 10 billion RMB (~$1.4B) The company dominating and leading quadrupedal and bipedal robotics is worth $1.4B. Figure is expected to be worth $39.5B total. Something something GDP”” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1946339066573648053
Drones, AI and Robot Pickers: Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/tech/autonomous-farming-ai-95657bd1
Elon talks about Grok fusing with Optimus – AI that can act in the real world – the start of an intelligence explosion. He then drifts into musings about a galactic economy and the fate of humanity. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1943379047729230102
“one thing I do know for sure – there’s no AGI without touching, feeling, and being embodied in the messy world.””” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1944448544464871434
America will be home to next generation manufacturing fueled by superintelligent humanoid robots 🇺🇸”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1946053581163176102
Figure just rolled out its 3rd‑generation battery for the F.03 humanoid. With higher energy density, F.03 keeps its 5‑hour spec yet gains extra payload headroom for future arms. The new pack is a structural part of the robot, so it doubles as the torso frame, cuts BOM (Bill of https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1946194242981752905
Ep 72 | Found the perfect track, combining science and design (w/ Matthieu Lapeyre) – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJnTAC9YCOI
🎙️ Yesterday, they launched a $299 robot. It looks like a toy, but it opens up a world of AI. Today, I talk to the person who made it real: @matth_lapeyre is the co-founder of @pollenrobotics and one of the most quietly influential roboticists in Europe. He’s been building https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1943218288579756082
🤖 UBTech’s Walker S2 swaps its own battery in 3 min, so it keeps working 24/7 on factory lines. Walker S2 : → Anthropomorphic Bipedal Locomotion → Autonomous hot-swappable battery system → Autonomous battery swapping, 24/7 continuous operations across dynamic industrial https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1946160771349561374
🤖 What if a humanoid robot could make a hamburger from raw ingredients—all the way to your plate? 🔥 Excited to announce ViTacFormer: our new pipeline for next-level dexterous manipulation with active vision + high-resolution touch. 🎯 For the first time ever, we demonstrate https://x.com/HaoranGeng2/status/1942603430750756896
🤖 What if your robot could learn 5× faster, and perform 29 tasks with just one model? [📍 Bookmark paper for later] They just released our first Large Behavior Models at TRI. These diffusion-based policies were pre-trained on 1,700+ hours of data Then tested with 4,200 https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1943572485259067512
🤯 A single neural net. Streaming dynamic martial arts in realtime. The team behind this MuJoCo/MJX project just took a leap in full-body robot control, and it shows. These aren’t just short tricks. They’re long, fluid sequences. Generated live. With smooth footwork. ✅ https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1943943465617736105
A Careful Examination of Large Behavior Models for Multitask Dexterous Manipulation https://toyotaresearchinstitute.github.io/lbm1/
A drone that flies, drives, and switches modes in 0.1 seconds: [Build it yourself: CAD + parts ⬇️] No extra actuators, no deformation, just clever mechanics and full control. DUAWLFIN is a ground-aerial robot with unified actuation: flying like a quadcopter, rolling like a https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1943724178231951432
At the Changchun show of the VOYAGEX Music Festival, PNDbotics’ humanoid robot Adam joined Hu Yutong’s band on stage as a keytar player. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1945181060750365151
How far can robot foundation models really go without breaking down? This team tested theirs for 24 hours straight… folding 850+ napkins at production quality, with no human help. ✅ 99.4% success rate over 24 hours ✅ Precision folding under real-world lighting and mess ✅ https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1945373747181162960
Introducing Muscle v0 — infinite degrees of freedom, from @DaxoRobotics. A different mountain to climb – with a far more beautiful peak. We built this from the ground up: – Ultra-dexterous – Built for machine learning – Durable and robust More below (1/n) https://x.com/tom_jiahao/status/1942526958035976379
Pollen Robotics, a Hugging Face subsidiary, has open-sourced Amazing Hand, a 3D-printable, four-finger robotic hand with eight degrees of freedom (DoF). Weighing 400g and costing less than $250 – it is designed for Reachy2’s wrist but adaptable to other robots. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1944094901853204923
Rendered design preview of UCR’s next-gen Moby robot. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1945234156549513582
The ORCA v1 hand is a 17-DoF, tendon-driven, humanoid hand with integrated tactile sensors and poppable joints. One fully assembled hand is priced at $5,937.00. The design is open-sourced for non-commercial use. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1944103202837721562
What if your robot could catch things mid-air… without breaking or snapping a joint? [📍Bookmark for later] IMA-Catcher is a new framework that lets robots catch nonprehensile, free-falling objects while reducing impact forces and avoiding hardware damage. Here’s what they https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1945172257334009889
While everyone’s chasing humanoids that cost $100,000+ and barely ship… Weave Robotics is doing the opposite. • General-purpose design • Voice/text/app control • Remote fallback system • And it’s shipping this year Let’s break this down: 👇 https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1941846395142459490
Optimus spotted inside Tesla’s first Diner, set to open in a few weeks on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood. We’ll likely see Optimus walking around and doing things in the diner. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1944460903195504700
#ROBOTERA STAR1 has become the first #humanoidrobot to skillfully use chopsticks! It can cook dumplings for you, steam buns for you, pour wine for you, and even clink wine glasses with you! More Chinese cooking skills are being continuously learned and unlocked. Stay tuned! https://x.com/roboterax/status/1927621395686768961
Digit outperforms human reflexes in step recovery. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1944112106649051521
🤖 On the farm, AI is running the show: self-driving tractors, robot fruit pickers, and drones are making “hands-off” farming real. The future of food? More tech, less sweat. https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1945537202294837574
Thomas Wolf on X: “Thrilled to finally share what we’ve been working on for months at @huggingface 🤝@pollenrobotics Our first robot: Reachy Mini A dream come true: cute and low priced, hackable yet easy to use, powered by open-source and the infinite community. Tiny price, small size, huge https://t.co/yl71EtwTKs” / X
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Jensen Huang was asked about humanoid robots at Beijing Supply Chain Expo, what he said: ⦿ Timing for humanoid robot technology is right now ⦿ World is short tens of millions of workers, robots will grow world’s GDP a lot ⦿ China has unique combination of AI tech, https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1945600818100818202
MagicLab Presents MagicBot Z1: Next-Gen Bipedal Humanoid Robot.High-Performance Body × Open AI Ecosystem × Multi-Scenario Deployment. Redefine New Axes of Humanoid Robotics Value! #AGI #EmbodiedAI #AI #HumanoidRobot #Bipedal #WorldModel #MagicLab https://x.com/MagicLab_Robot/status/1942526675461497343
RT @ClementDelangue: We’re open-sourcing “”The Amazing Hand””, an eight-degree of freedom humanoid robot hand compatible with @lerobot that c…”” / X https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1944150312434249869
Elon: “That’s Optimus 2.5. Optimus 3 will have agility roughly equal to an agile human.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1944782057412141438
