Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Photorealistic Times Square at golden hour, every billboard and screen showing dramatic recruitment posters of heroic humanoid robots with text JOIN THE FUTURE WORKFORCE, giant LED displays of robotic arms being assembled, street-level robot head kiosks, warm sunset light mixing with cool blue screen glow, crowded pedestrians looking up, vibrant and cinematic.
Amazon is training humanoids to move boxes. Makes sense! OmniRetarget is a data generation engine that enables complex loco-manipulation for humanoids. It uses offline retargeting from human MoCap datasets and augments data from single demos to produce 8 hours of trajectories https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1973489480813388240
My companies have raised $4B the last 5 yrs. It’s now time to re-accelerate. Today, I am assembling a Capital Formation team. This team will raise tens of billions to bring sci-fi into the present, reporting directly to me. DMs open. No remote candidates.”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1973417191124160894
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics 1.5, enabling robots to perceive, plan, think, use tools, and act on complex tasks. The agentic framework comprises: ⦿ Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 (VLM): Orchestrates high-level embodied reasoning and planning. ⦿ Gemini Robotics 1.5 https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1971246114667102540
Introducing our first widely available Robotics model: Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 🤖 It is currently SOTA on a set of Embodied Reasoning tasks and can be used used directly through the Gemini API or Google AI Studio! https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/1971245258253230565
The Verge reports that Meta is developing its own humanoid robot, dubbed “”Metabot.”” CTO Andrew Bosworth believes the bottleneck is the software and envisions licensing the software platform to other robot makers, provided the robots meet Meta’s specs. Former Scale AI CEO https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1972223919831547985
General-purpose robots with advanced manipulation ability are approaching quickly. This autonomous demo from Google DeepMind showcases Gemini Robotics 1.5. The bimanual coordination is impressive – one arm holds the suitcase in place while the other handles the zipper. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1973448181867581648
Super excited to share Gemini Robotics 1.5!! Our high-level reasoning model Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 is also publicly available now! The model is particularly strong at spatial and temporal reasoning, and can use thinking to improve its answers 🧠🤖 https://x.com/_anniexie/status/1971477645096517832
Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing at a Trade Fair in Hangzhou on Saturday: ⦿ Unitree R1 will become the world’s best-selling humanoid robot next year. ⦿ In the first half of this year, the domestic robot industry grew an average rate of 50% to 100% for Chinese intelligent https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1973158573317501243
Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing expects R1 to be the world’s best-selling humanoid robot next year. Won’t shock anyone if it happens. The company announced the starting price of $5,900 but even at $12k this will sell like hot cakes https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1973452915366044096
Bring me the healthiest snack.”” The robot goes to the kitchen and gets the snack, fully autonomously. This is the first public demo of NVIDIA’s Isaac GR00T N1.6 foundation model presented by Yuke Zhu at CoRL 2025. The previous versions focused only on bimanual stationary https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1972698708975440349
Go check out @yukez’s talk at CoRL! Project GR00T is cooking 🍳”” / X https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/1971370444474417658
Very excited to start sharing some of the work we have been doing at Amazon FAR. In this work we present OmniRetarget, which can generate high-quality interaction-preserving data from human motions for learning complex humanoid skills. High-quality re-targeting really helps”” / X https://x.com/pabbeel/status/1973426729952956652
Google has been shipping in September – Gemini Robotics 1.5 – Latest Gemini Live – EmbeddingGemma – Veo 3 GA + API updates – AI Edge gallery for on-device – Gemini Batch API embedding support – Gemini Flash and Flash Lite updates – Chrome DevTools MCP – VaultGemma and more 🚀”” / X https://x.com/osanseviero/status/1971468195308712431
This job posting suggests that Meta is developing an egocentric AI system that will form the foundation for AI-enabled humanoid robots and AR devices. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1972544881303417338
How can we enable finetuning of humanoid manipulation policies, directly in the real world? In our new paper, Residual Off-Policy RL for Finetuning BC Policies, we demonstrate real-world RL on a bimanual humanoid with 5-fingered hands (29 DoF) and improve pre-trained policies https://x.com/larsankile/status/1973191635904373243
Humanoid motion tracking performance is greatly determined by retargeting quality! Introducing 𝗢𝗺𝗻𝗶𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁🎯, generating high-quality interaction-preserving data from human motions for learning complex humanoid skills with 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 RL: – 5 rewards, – 4 DR https://x.com/zhenkirito123/status/1973417906412331361
WorldExplorer: Towards Generating Fully Navigable 3D Scenes https://mschneider456.github.io/world-explorer/
(15) WorldExplorer: Towards Generating Fully Navigable 3D Scenes (SIGGRAPH Asia’25) – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6NJsNyiv6I
Houdini is the OG of procedural 3D generation. The same tools Hollywood uses to build massive simulated worlds are equally useful as training grounds for robotics – reproducible physics, deterministic traffic, worlds you can run a thousand times. Procedural is control. AI is https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1971971318485864522
IKEA furniture assembly with only the tools provided in the flatpack would be a great AGI test. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1972386261106393100
Here’s our progress over the last 12 months https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1972692373168898365
I’m so sick of these robotic projects that are avoiding hardware “We’ll just focus on the software” If you’re in robotics and you’re not all-in on solving the hardware – no matter the cost – you won’t make it”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1971815023166345701
Robots that can fail, detect the failure, and re-plan on their own. We just crossed that line: Robots that can not only act but also think. Google DeepMind just unveiled Gemini Robotics 1.5. Two advances stand out. Gemini Robotics 1.5 pushes Vision-Language-Action models https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1971639616487805395
Tokyo-based robotics startup Telexistence is partnering with 7-Eleven Japan to develop the humanoid robot “”Astra.”” The initiative will accelerate dataset development for VLA models. Expected in stores by 2029, Astra aims to automate routine tasks. Japan has 20,000 7-Eleven https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1973523706925424825
Latest mlx-lm is up: pip install -U mlx-lm – Some some new models including Meta’s Code World Model – Batch inference for hybrid SSMs and sliding window attention https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1971763001880670213
CWM: An Open-Weights LLM for Research on Code Generation with World Models | Research – AI at Meta https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/cwm-an-open-weights-llm-for-research-on-code-generation-with-world-models/
🎙️ A Stanford physicist leaves academia to build open-source software for humanoid robots? I talked to @openmind_agi founder @JanLiphardt: OpenMind a new robotics company building an open-source, AI-native operating system for humanoid robots. We talk about being born in https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1971117969997693174
LimX Dynamics’ Oli humanoid robot autonomously collects tennis balls from the floor. ⦿ Oli is 5’5″” tall, weighs 55 kg (121 lb), has 31 DoF ⦿ Ships with a modular SDK for Python-based development https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1973097847362036042
🎙️ What no one tells you about… humanoid robots: I sat down with @JanLiphardt, founder of @openmind_agi, a new robotics company building an open-source, AI-native operating system for humanoids. We went deep on: ✅ Why humanoids are misunderstood ✅ The real technical https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1971271013406212179
A new video shared by Unitree’s CEO: G1 performs a butterfly twist, executing a full 360-degree horizontal spin in the air. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1973166019117195700
Leju Robotics has operationalized Phase II of Beijing’s largest humanoid robot data training center, supported by the local government and co-operated with entities. The 107k sq ft facility addresses AI data shortages, capable of producing 6 million high-quality data points. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1971289171437441359
Scott Walter was completely underwhelmed by Optimus clone Kepler Robotics’s demo. “”If you’re going to start a humanoid bot company, make sure you bring something new to the table.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1971282268808474900
Why do most humanoid motion trackers still slip, skate, or clip through objects? Because the real bottleneck isn’t RL, it’s bad retargeting… OmniRetarget flips the script: instead of compensating with dozens of reward terms, it generates high-quality, interaction-preserving https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1973442198130573378
Buying the robot is cheap… Paying for training, integration, and downtime is what kills your ROI. My take after talking to 50+ Head of Production: The purchase price isn’t the problem. The real killer of ROI is what comes after. I used to think the question was: “How much”” / X https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1972659403355574657
Why do robot wrists still look nothing like ours? [📍 save the paper for later] Bulky serial wrists jam in clutter. Stiff parallel wrists lack compactness. ByteWrist is a new anthropomorphic robotic wrist designed for dexterity in tight spaces, from – home service to – https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1973341110471671967
1X NEO is an adult-human-sized humanoid that can be lifted relatively easily. Being lightweight is a key safety feature. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1972380102114897935
Humanoids are moving fast from research labs into real-world conversations… Every week I get messages from companies and consulting firms asking where this is heading. I came across a new 160-page report from https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1972927813054345243
Humanoid robot guide
NEO with fresh head aesthetics. One has a matte beige face, and another with matte black. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1971601477203599722
Real Steel in real life! Got to experience UFB’s direct body control yesterday. It’s only in the early stages, but still super fun to play with. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1972055402037850230
Scott Walter discusses Wuji hand’s unique design: rotary actuators integrated into finger phalanges like Lego. Motors form a structure with reducers, enabling 90-degree transmissions at joints. Prioritizes high flexion torque at the base for a 20kg grip. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1971627213905928407
These findings are very similar to what we found in the full experimental suite when developing QLoRA (>1500 experiments). Long story short: LoRA/QLoRA works well, is cheap on low-memory devices, and allows multiple cheap deployments.”” / X https://x.com/Tim_Dettmers/status/1972719016067453133
Can LoRA match full fine-tuning (updating all weights) in quality and data efficiency – and when? @thinkymachines in their post “”LoRA Without Regret”” answer clearly: ▪️ There’s a “low-regret regime” when you won’t look back and “regret” choosing LoRA. Here’s the guide for https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/1973820885116334441
Code World Model (CWM) – a new 32B open-weights model by @AIatMeta for coding and reasoning. CWM learns what code does when executed. • It models both syntax and semantics of programs • Can simulate Python execution step by step • Supports multi-turn software engineering https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/1971697629697659099
PPO vs GRPO vs REINFORCE – a workflow breakdown of the most talked-about reinforcement learning algorithms ➡️ Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO): The Stable Learner It’s used everywhere from dialogue agents to instruction tuning as it balances between learning fast and staying https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/1972726875056390146
Why is everyone hyping legged humanoids when wheels move faster, cheaper, and longer? While billions flow into bipedal humanoid startups, researchers are exploring hybrids: ❗️humanoids that use wheels for transport and legs for manipulation. One example: a humanoid riding a https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1971995762952151257
First foundation model that zero-shot runs on any robot arm. [📍 Fully open source] What if robot arms could learn new tasks with zero data collection or fine-tuning? That is what the team behind RDT2 just demonstrated. RDT2 is the first foundation model that zero-shot https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1972558305512857919
Hangzhou-based embodied AI startup Westlake Robotics, in collaboration with Westlake University, announces GAE (General Action Expert), a “”Shadow Function”” AI model that generates robot actions to mimic its handler’s movements in real-time. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1972716282509459567
Here’s the problem nobody talks about: every robot lives on a lonely island. Boston Dynamics robots can’t learn from Figure’s. Tesla’s can’t coordinate with a delivery drone. They all speak different languages. This fragmentation is the #1 thing strangling innovation. But one https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1972289401175638026
🦾Great📷 milestone for open-source robotics: pi0 & pi0.5 by @physical_int are now on @huggingface, fully ported to PyTorch in @LeRobotHF and validated side-by-side with OpenPI for everyone to experiment with, fine-tune & deploy in their robots! As described by Physical https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1974094115743711702
A robot that learns Lego assembly in one shot. One shot. No task-specific code. No custom rules. Pixels in → Lego copies out. At @GeneralistAI_ , the team trained a model that builds Lego structures end to end, controlled in real time by a neural network running at 100Hz. https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1971841750512631912
1X’s NEO picks up a shirt from the floor. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1972068647180161455
NEO humanoid robot by 1X uses a vacuum cleaner. Truly general-purpose robots have to be able to work with tools built for people. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1972077093363327135
Expanding Our Data Engine for Physical AI | Scale https://scale.com/blog/physical-ai
Security researchers have discovered that Unitree robots, like the humanoids G1 and H1 and quadrupeds Go2 and B2, suffer from a severe security hole in their Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) setup for the Wi-Fi configuration interface. This flaw lets attackers perform command https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1971314995779748126
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth to The Verge: “”I can see how Tesla cars are getting enough data; I can’t figure out how they’re going to get robotic data.”” Alright, brace yourself, Tesla’s totally doing the obvious thing. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1972377045440369041
Tesla has Optimus on display at UP.Summit 2025 in Arkansas. Chief Designer Franz Holzhausen told CNBC that the Optimus team is fired up, and Elon is incredibly involved in the project. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1973154234305749072
