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Control an avatar in real time (in this case a dog on a beach!) https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1958696900489523633
Genie 3 has advanced spatial memory, when you make changes in the world, they persist in the simulation even when out of view! https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1958696898488840414
Simulations are the future, & one of the main tools we’ll ultimately use to understand and predict things about the universe. This is why I’m so excited about Genie 3, our latest interactive world simulator – here are some insanely cool things you might have missed about it 🧵: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1958696882105995312
You can prompt Genie 3 with text, photos, or videos – like this cool game example created using Imagen 4 -> Veo 3 -> Genie 3 https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1958696891639595148
Figure 02 robot walking over obstacles using a reinforcement learning controller, operating blindfolded (without camera inputs). https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1958209123767742676
Someone raises the table at 0:24, and Figure’s Helix model adapts to the change on the fly. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956531542433403306
This is the real deal: During the work process, the table is raised by a few centimeters (from second 0:24). And figure02 continues to work. Figure is mindblowing and, in my estimation, is currently the most advanced robotic company”” / X https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/1956622073456951347
Testing out the new Helix walking controller. it’s unstoppable https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1958193476639826383
BeyondMimic From Motion Tracking to Versatile Humanoid Control via Guided Diffusion
https://beyondmimic.github.io/
📢DINOv3: Scaling Self-Supervised Learning for Vision Foundation Models (Meta AI) DINOv3 is a next-generation vision foundation model trained purely with self-supervised learning. It introduces innovations that allow robust dense feature learning at scale with models reaching 7B https://x.com/OpenCVUniverse/status/1957426189477482558
DINOv3 https://ai.meta.com/dinov3/
how does DINOv3 perceive objects? 👀 I dropped a mini visualizer: you can upload images, click on objects and check > patch similarities > object boundaries > most similar other objects 🤗 live on @huggingface Spaces https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1956694798519161118
Meta introduced two new models: —TRIBE: An AI that predicts the brain’s response to visual content, without running physical scans —DINOv3: A general-purpose computer vision model that learns from unlabeled data to power detection, segmentation + more https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1957111038396043624
WOW! 🤯 DINOv3 can run locally on your phone… from the browser! This unlocks endless possibilities for AI-powered web apps. 🤏 Model is tiny (only 15MB at 4-bit quantization) 🧠 Delivers powerful, high-resolution image features ✨ Works completely offline Try it yourself 👇 https://x.com/xenovacom/status/1956763976080970071
A very sci-fi scene: A robot walking a dog on the streets of Shanghai. A glimpse of the future family. 😂 https://x.com/crystalsssup/status/1956257972197449850
Adversity introduces a robot to itself. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956761988979450111
although this looks bad for Unitree, you have to admit it’s very impressive that H1 wasn’t *even close* to falling after tripping up the meatbag. It’s a very complex collision, with significant momentum, no way to prepare in advance… These things are very stable now.”” / X https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1956592234079433080
Highlights from today’s 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games opening ceremony in Beijing! https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956054200779202966
In the 100m obstacle course, Unitree took all three medals at the World Humanoid Robot Games. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956875758317498444
Masquerade https://masquerade-robot.github.io/
Remarkably lifelike motion and fluidity. BeyondMimic is a framework for training humanoid whole-body control from large mocap datasets. First, an open-source motion-tracking pipeline to reproduce diverse, highly dynamic human skills on real hardware, then distilling them into a https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956394143854502132
ROBOTERA took gold in the standing high jump at the World Humanoid Robot Games with a record leap of 95.641 cm. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956744420755439891
This slapstick sequence happened in the 4x100m relay prelims at the World Humanoid Robot Games. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956973082494816522
Unitree also wins the gold medal for the 400m run at the World Humanoid Robot Games, setting a record time of 1 minute and 28 seconds, about double the current men’s world record of 43.03 seconds. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956860866164674729
Unitree wins the gold medal for the 1500m run at the World Humanoid Robot Games, setting a world record time of 6 minutes and 34 seconds. The current men’s world record is 3:26. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956241393212645598
Unitree won gold in the 4x100m relay at the World Humanoid Robot Games with 1: 48 time. Tiangong took silver (2 :22), Xingzhe Taishan bronze (2: 37), while a second Unitree team finished last after a fall. The men’s world record is 36.84 seconds. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1957261919401992438
The Economic Daily (Taiwan): Foxconn will unveil a humanoid robot with an “LLM-powered brain” at Foxconn Tech Day in November. NVIDIA will support the development of the robotic brain and provide AI expertise. The robots will be deployed in Q1 2026 in Foxconn’s new Houston https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1957890628152693081
Sounds like OpenAI humanoid robots are coming. Sam Altman: ⦿ One of the things that’s going to feel the most AGI-like is seeing a robot *walk* by you doing day-to-day tasks. ⦿ The world is really built for humans; humanoid morphology seems like a good idea. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956095280677638609
Robot hands folding laundry – slowed down to 0.4x speed for max satisfaction https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1956021725491290154
Yikes! The operator picked the exact wrong moment to hand off the controller. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956251209427509719
Bloomberg: Apple is developing a tabletop robot, set for a 2027 release, as a key part of its AI strategy, and has loosely discussed humanoid models. The table top device, resembling an iPad on a movable arm, can swivel the display to follow users, mimicking human head https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956091887116542317
Synchron Debuts the First Thought-Controlled iPad Experience using Apple’s New BCI Human Interface Device Protocol – Patently Apple https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2025/08/synchron-debuts-the-first-thought-controlled-ipad-experience-using-apples-new-bci-human-interface-device-protocol.html
We can now train AI inside the mind of another AI. 🤯 🌍 Our world model, Genie 3, imagines and generates new worlds on the fly. 🤖 Our embodied agent, Sima, is dropped in and learns to navigate them autonomously. The entire loop—from the environment to the action—is generated https://x.com/bonniesjli/status/1958948293523767561
What excites us: no changes here to hardware or AI architecture We just trained Helix on new laundry data One day it does package logistics, the next it learns folding laundry or loading the washer”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1957273318899462253
🎙️ I sit down with @BBarash, CEO of @roboto_ai, to talk Amazon, robotics, and why knowing what to do with your data is key to scaling: Benji spent years at Amazon working on drone delivery, but started to see a growing problem in robotics, the data was piling up faster than https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1953442754064957539
Well, this happened sooner than I expected… Tencent has dropped their version of Genie 3. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1955968609940873624
Wow! Chinese lab Tencent Hunyuan has released an open source alternative to Genie 3 🔥 You can generate realistic videos that you can control in real time. – Long-term consistency – No need for expensive rendering – Trained on 1M+ gameplay recordings Already available ↓ https://x.com/itsPaulAi/status/1957182570309013714
Congrats @jparkerholder, @shlomifruchter, & the Genie & Veo teams! If you are interested to know more, the latest episode of the @GoogleDeepMind Podcast with the brilliant @FryRsquared has just dropped, and is all about Genie 3 & its incredible potential: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/1958696904146976927
Most imitation learning policies break when the camera moves or the robot changes. NOT THIS ONE 👇 [📍 Bookmark for later ] A new 3D scene representation encoder, tackles this by enabling zero-shot generalization to unseen embodiments and viewpoints… And it works with any IL https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1956409667908936185
Mechaverse https://mechaverse.dev/
Today, we’re launching the Runway Game Worlds Beta. Over the last few months, we have been working on research and products that are moving us closer toward a future where you will be able to explore any character, story or world in real time. While generating the pixels of https://x.com/runwayml/status/1958516860149997672
Bernt Bornich says NEO’s brain is in the head to minimize the distance between eyes and compute for processing very high-bandwidth, very high-frequency vision signals, and also because the rest of the body is “pretty frickin full.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1958278612618236059
Round 2: Frank the Tank is back https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1958290688715685955
The hand is where the mind meets the world. – Carl Zimmer https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956026241477443825
Big upgrade coming to Helix https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1957526592793838038
🎙️Ep 75: In this episode, I talk with @LerrelPinto, Assistant Professor at NYU and one of the most cited researchers in robotics today: His work spans everything from self-supervised learning to robot dexterity, and he’s on a mission to make robots generalize the way humans do. https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1955897932596572223
Well, @jianyuan_wang of VGGT fame simply plugged in DINOv3 into his pipeline and off-handedly got a new SotA 3D model out. Seems promising enough? https://x.com/maxseitzer/status/1956029433329922116
Jensen visited the Figure HQ. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1957690025057087933
“Hey H1, go pick up some fresh bagels from the bakery, fast!” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956059633472430405
Ai2 dropped MolmoAct, an open Action Reasoning Model that can enable robots to reason across space, time, & motion The co also raised $75M from the U.S. National Science Foundation and $77M from Nvidia to scale its model family https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1957111243421909329
ALLEX robot by WIRobotics demonstrating a precision task. The South Korean startup was originally founded to develop wearable robots for walking assistance. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1957916828006773169
Bernt Bornich says 1X will launch the early adopter program this year, for their home-use humanoid robot, NEO. He sets expectations right by saying it’s going to be useful but not perfect. “What you’re buying here is kind of a ticket to be part of this transformation.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956413120680964171
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute are advancing humanoid robotics with Large Behavior Models (LBMs) for Atlas. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1958224737936748829
China’s Engine AI debuted T800, its first heavy-duty humanoid Standing at 1.85m and weighing 85kg, this robot features 41 high-DOF joints, a solid-state battery, and an aluminum alloy shell for stable, continuous work in heavy-duty industries https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1957111175646200265
Daxo Robotics’ tendon-driven flexible hand uses 108 motors per hand, enabling 108 actively controlled degrees of freedom (DoF) and virtually infinite passive DoF. Each joint is actuated by multiple tendons, enabling high-dimensional control, redundancy and precise force feedback https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956781157707903009
From dexterous hands to imitation from internet videos, his group keeps dropping breakthroughs that set the tone for the field. @LerrelPinto’s lab at NYU has quietly reshaped robotic learning. A breakdown 🧵 [📍SAVE MEGA THREAD FOR LATER📍] https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1958169367192940896
General purpose robots need a human-like hand The hand engineering we’re doing is as hard as building the whole robot fwiw out of all the dumb stuff I’ve seen in my career, building a humanoid robot without a 5-finger hand is up there”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1956083802440450551
Humanoids finally move like humans… and can do more than copy. [Details + demos in thread 👇] A new framework, BeyondMimic, shows how to learn naturalistic whole-body control from human motion. But then goes further by composing those skills into versatile, zero-shot https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1956617885595361584
RynnEC Bringing MLLMs into Embodied World https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1958380616711299561
South Korean company WIRobotics unveiled ALLEX, a general-purpose humanoid robot with low-friction backdrivable arms and human-like hands. Each hand features 15 DOF, supports lifting over 30 kg, and delivers more than 40 N at the fingertips. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1957695026386842093
The 100-meter final was the most anticipated event at the World Humanoid Robot Games. Tiangong robot finished third but, for being autonomous, got a 0.8 multiplier on its time and claimed gold. Unitree, which finished first in 22.08 seconds under remote operation, took silver. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1957349435232735466
Unitree just teased its next-gen full-size humanoid. The full-size model, H1, was unveiled in mid-2023, and the two models that followed were about 4 feet tall. The new robot will stand 5’10” with 31 joint DoF. The silhouette resembles the R1, but taller. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1957925520399823017
Unitree’s H1 humanoid won gold at the 1500m and 400m races at the World Humanoid Robot Games However, the remote wasn’t autonomous and was remotely operated–it bumped into a staff member as the controller was being handed to another operator https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1957111130637090925
Weave Robotics also released a clip showcasing its wheeled robot’s laundry-folding skills Here, Issac operates at 70% autonomy, using an on-board vision-language-action model to perform the task and taking help from a human (via TeleOp) where needed https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1957111153135432180
Robots learn best from robot data, but… what if we could turn any human video into a robot demo? [❗️Every clip is fake] That’s exactly what Masquerade does. It takes raw human egocentric videos Replaces the human arms with a rendered robot Produces “robotized” demos from https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1957788396505432258
Synchronized robots, tested in 3D, to boost uptime and cut integration errors: This setup uses RobotStudio to simulate dual-robot coordination with precise axis timing and collision checks. Every move is validated in a digital twin before going live. benefits: ✅ Full axis https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1957498982466211911
The first universal 3D robot viewer for the browser… load URDF, MJCF, or USD in seconds. No installs. No setup. Developer Victor Oldensand has built Mechaverse, a universal 3D robotics viewer that works on desktop and even mobile (if your phone is strong enough). No installs. https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1956260218523828459
BeyondMimic: From Motion Tracking to Versatile Humanoid Control via Guided Diffusion https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08241
Humanoids will redefine convenience in daily life far beyond common imagination. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1956775605682475102
