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Meta just made training AI agents 25x faster. This is a breakthrough for robotics and complex planning. Meta’s FAIR open sourced a new method called Scalable Option Learning. It trains a specialized agent at the scale previously seen only with LLMs. Here’s how it works: The https://x.com/JacksonAtkinsX/status/1967284333678350342
Today we’re announcing a first-of-its-kind partnership with Brookfield Brookfield is one of the world’s largest asset managers with over $1 trillion of assets and 100,000 residential units This deal provides access to real-world environments and compute needed to scale Helix https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1968299339278848127
Big news: Figure has exceeded $1B in funding at a $39B post-money valuation https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1967937116220080178
Figure has secured over $1B in Series C funding at a $39B valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital, with significant investments from Brookfield Asset Management, NVIDIA Corporation, Macquarie Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, Tamarack Global, LG Technology Ventures, https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967958051480277085
Figure is aiming to develop the world’s largest and most diverse real-world humanoid pretraining dataset. For this purpose, they’re partnering with Brookfield, a global asset manager overseeing $1 trillion in assets, including 100,000 residential units, 500M square feet of https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1968374209710800961
Figure is now valued at $39B. The previous round was at $2.6B in February 2024. That’s a 15x jump in a year and a half. There are 255 companies in the S&P 500 valued lower than Figure. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967969998410014939
OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ramps-up-robotics-work-in-race-toward-agi/
NavFoM: Embodied Navigation Foundation Model • Trained on 8M samples across quadrupeds, drones, wheeled robots & vehicles • Handles VLN, ObjNav, tracking, & driving in one unified model • Outperforms on each domain + real-world deployment https://x.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1967806725387588069
Skydio R10 packs their flying autonomy into a tinier airframe that can safely fly indoors, even when it’s dark And also perch, turn off the motors, and observe and two-way communicate with speaker and microphone https://x.com/kylebrussell/status/1968429570173841803
Having invested in over 1,200 startups over 20+ years at @FJLabs , we use a simple investment heuristic that has served us well: if a founder makes us money and starts another company, we invest even if it is not a marketplace. FJ Labs first seeded founder @adcock_brett when he”” / X https://x.com/Jeffreyw5000/status/1968039725823844596
Accelerating Commercial Deployment of Humanoid Robots We’re excited to be exploring commercial deployment of humanoid robots in new sectors and applications Brookfield’s large operating portfolio, allows Figure to access new and diverse commercial deployment opportunities”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1968299387320443106
I have a badass crew of investors who’ve backed me every step of the way in building my companies FJ Labs – known for their focus on marketplace investing – backed me at my last software company and again at both Archer and Figure Good 101 from Jeff:”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1968111824206962690
Looks like the logistics are sorted for ‘3 big announcements’ from Figure.”” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967820652653781418
One of the cooler results, is Isaac 0.1 out-performs or matches YOLO models trained on thousands of samples with a dozen in-context samples for very specific detection tasks. https://x.com/ArmenAgha/status/1968378019753627753
“People who are serious about robot learning should build their own hardware,” says NVIDIA’s embodied AI research co-lead. This is likely a general statement, not a hint at NVIDIA’s plans, but it would be awesome if NVIDIA designed and made its own robot hardware. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1966216768290222552
Wuji Hand by Chinese company Pan Motor. Features 20 active DOFs (4 per finger), weighs <600g, 15N fingertip force, 10kg static grasp, >300,000-cycle lifespan, and 30 arcminute accuracy. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1968401420459429922
Foundation is gearing up to produce 10,000 Phantom humanoid robots in 2026. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967813786922025040
Fourier’s N1 humanoid doing cartwheels https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1966176110175285274
How do we unlock the full dexterity of robot hands… without the limits of teleoperation? [📍Save Project For Later] DEXOP is a passive exoskeleton that directly links human fingers to robot fingers, giving full-hand tactile + proprio feedback. Instead of clumsy teleop, users https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1967853941003039030
New glimpses of HMND 01 robot with wheeled base. The robot is developed by UK-based startup ‘Humanoid’. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1966589636618449153
Protoclone by Clone Robotics has 4 depth cameras, 70 inertial sensors, and 320 pressure sensors built into the muscles in the skin. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1966596357898035256
“People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves. It does not automatically improve. It only improves if a lot of people work very hard to make it better.” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1968117705552306599
Dynamic control trained at SUSTech’s ACT Lab in Shenzhen. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967633263058620445
The AGIBOT X2 can nail a Webster flip! https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967978779575517339
The first Reachy Minis will start shipping before the end of September 🥳🥳🥳”” / X https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1968357890848432568
Sergey Levine says making a robotics foundation model is more like the Apollo program than it is like a science experiment. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967960666217566694
Unitree first open-source world-model on @huggingface! UnifoLM-WMA-0 is Unitree‘s first open-source world-model–action architecture spanning multiple types of robotic embodiments, designed specifically for general-purpose robot learning. Its core component is a world-model https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1968001710770520135
What if humanoid robots could learn new tasks just by watching people play? ❗️That’s the idea: Instead of relying on expensive teleoperation data, MimicDroid trains robots using regular human play videos. This makes it cheaper, faster, and more scalable for robots to adapt to https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1968216390155841582
(1/N) How close are we to enabling robots to solve the long-horizon, complex tasks that matter in everyday life? 🚨 We are thrilled to invite you to join the 1st BEHAVIOR Challenge @NeurIPS 2025, submission deadline: 11/15. 🏆 Prizes: 🥇 $1,000 🥈 $500 🥉 $300 https://x.com/drfeifei/status/1962971299246178664
🎙️ In this episode, I talk with @Vikashplus, Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon and founder of @MyolabAI, where he’s building human-embodied AI systems: We talk about growing up in a small Indian town, the influence of his mother on his early learning, and how a robotics club https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1966126330032042508
@greggertruck Daddy is very much home. Am burning the midnight oil with Optimus engineering on Friday night, then redeye overnight to Austin arriving 5am, wake up to have lunch with my kids and then spend all Saturday afternoon in deep technical reviews for the Tesla AI5 chip design. Fly”” / X https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1967813970783604818
Scott Walter says suppliers would need clear direction on Tesla’s actuator strategy for Optimus. Linear and rotary actuators require distinct equipment; significant redesigns could cause supplier lead times of months. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1966246349252473091
Optimus, full steam ahead! https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967834800888352806
