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The wait is over. Figure 03 is here, “”Designed for Helix, the home, and the world at scale.”” ⦿ Shown testing at home, performing long-horizon tasks fully autonomously (nothing teleoperated). ⦿ A completely redesigned sensory suite and hand system, which is purpose-built to https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976279875456729452

Figure’s new website is live! A full redesign, top to bottom https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1978124226742944193

Introducing Figure 03 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1976272831450341655

Neuralink’s patient-8, Nick Wray, fed himself for the first time since being paralyzed by ALS. He accomplished this by controlling a robotic arm purely with his thoughts, using the Telepathy implant. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976891521363591588

Very excited to share @theworldlabs ‘s latest research work RTFM!! It’s a real-time, persistent, and 3D consistent generative World Model running on *a single* H100 GPU! Blog and live demo are available below! 🤩”” / X https://x.com/drfeifei/status/1978840835341914164

Introducing RTFM (Real-Time Frame Model): a highly efficient World Model that generates video frames in real time as you interact with it, powered by a single H100 GPU. RTFM renders persistent and 3D consistent worlds, both real and imaginary. Try our demo of RTFM today! https://x.com/theworldlabs/status/1978839171058815380

We are sharing a research preview of our latest model from @theworldlabs! RTFM is an autoregressive diffusion transformer trained on large-scale video data. It generates video frames in real-time without building an explicit 3D model of the world. Try the demo today!”” / X https://x.com/jcjohnss/status/1978842517605843391

📍Reconstructing 3D scenes from photos shouldn’t destroy the colors. But most methods still fail when lighting or exposure changes: leaving blown-out windows, flat walls, or strange shadows. Neural Exposure Fields (NExF) fixes that. ✅ Learns an exposure value for every 3D https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1976703320359051682

The 2025 BEHAVIOR Challenge, launched by @drfeifei’s team at Stanford, is a global competition to train robots in household tasks, testing reasoning, navigation, and manipulation in simulated homes. ⦿ 50 tasks, 1,000 activities (e.g., cooking, cleaning) ⦿ 10,000 expert demos https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976355634510737626

Humanoid robots will become ubiquitous in hospitality settings. Beyond front desk work, friendly-looking helper bots could act as porters or handle room service. Eventually, they could perform cleaning, maintenance and cooking tasks. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1977076494167163219

Elon Musk’s xAI joins race to build ‘world models’ to power video games with artificial intelligence https://www.afr.com/technology/musk-s-xai-joins-race-to-build-world-models-to-power-video-games-20251012-p5n1wj

Human3R basically says “”what if we stopped treating human reconstruction & scene reconstruction as separate problems.”” Feed it a casual 2D videos and it spits out multiple people’s full body models + 3D scene + camera trajectory – all at once, no multi-stage pipeline required. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1976639015995736440

Figure 03 squats to tidy up the living room. The bipedal humanoid form excels when operating in tight spaces. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976325409034862940

Can’t wait to show the world Figure 03 tomorrow See you in the morning”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1976115982503641455

Figure 03 leads the way for billions of AI-controlled robots”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1977419847391973783

Figure 02 will hand over the stage to Figure 03 tomorrow. Thank you, Figure 02. You’ve been a good robot. Picture from a year ago https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976105836100378645

Figure developed a first-generation tactile sensor, emphasizing durability, reliability, and high-fidelity sensing. Each fingertip sensor on Figure 03’s hands detects forces as small as three grams, sensitive enough to register the weight of a paperclip resting on a finger. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976292255599345671

Dreamforce with Marc and 3 generations of robots 🤖 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1978550387943846190

I ended up winning every game that day https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1976856742534480370

This is our future now, robots everywhere https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1977763882572914982

Figure on the cover of Time (which I don’t know who reads) https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1976673171542831251

MADE IN CALIFORNIA https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976332973558595724

Pure gold”” / X https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1976983586197954788

Tesla. DeepMind. Figure. Skild just raised $300M. All racing to build one giant AI brain for every robot. It’s a trillion-dollar mistake. The future of robotics won’t be built like GPT… It’ll be built like Lego. 👇 🧵 https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1977360311419056339

You can now track insider trading on Perplexity Finance. We will be adding politician trading shortly. https://x.com/AravSrinivas/status/1978941079182545338

This is how Amazon delivery bot will ring your doorbell. It is done by leveraging the same loco-manipulation framework that enables humanoid robots to move boxes, developed by Amazon’s Frontier AI & Robotics team. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976754028483883304

📍A humanoid robot just did a wallflip. Researchers at Amazon FAR made it happen using OmniRetarget and BeyondMimic tracking: No special tricks, just clean data and smart training. ✅ High-quality, interaction-preserving motion data from OmniRetarget ✅ Minimal RL recipe with https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1976909701909565766

📍Robots can now lift more than they were built for. A new framework called ResMimic lets humanoids move, balance, and manipulate objects up to twice their hardware limit… without any task-specific tuning. It’s a big step toward giving robots true whole-body intelligence. ✅ https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1976198813242081289

How close are humanoids to moving and interacting like real humans? A system that brings generalizable, lifelike humanoid-scene interaction to the real world: ✅ Unified pipeline for training and deployment ✅ Coarse-to-fine localization using LiDAR and AprilTags ✅ https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1978169240109674758

Shanghai-based Cyan Robotics demonstrated their Orca humanoid robot walking with alternative gaits expressing different moods and attitudes. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976166144345244000

I used to think more robots = more savings. The scaling trap: Why your 10th robot won’t have the same ROI as your first. Everyone celebrates robot #1. Nobody warns you about the chaos that comes with robot #10. My take after being involved in 40+ scaling automation projects:”” / X https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1977727511262908531

I asked Mario Bollini what applications for the Atlas humanoid robot he’s most excited about. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1978148070031241598

Mario Bollini describes the paradigm shift in humanoid robot control, from the old Atlas performing gymnastics as far back as 2017 to the new electric Atlas showcasing its impressive athletic abilities in recent demos. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976887336182202649

.@mario_bollini leads the Atlas product team at Boston Dynamics. Mario sees humanoid robots as the next-level tools embodying generalizable AI that could deliver meaningful commercial value. We discuss Mario’s journey in robotics, product lessons from Spot applied to Atlas, the https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976698273487598033

Mario Bollini describes Boston Dynamics’ use of large behavior models (LBMs) to generate dynamic, adaptive manipulation behaviors. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1977594384343540210

As a robotics enthusiasts and as a European, I’m thankful for what @RemiCadene and countless others had done with @LeRobotHF at Hugging Face for and with the community: Bringing robotics to the people. Looking forward for what’s coming next!!”” / X https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1978382050248851550

Rehearsed and polished videos are impressive, but the Unitree G1 executing wild moves before a live audience is next-level spectacular. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1977769424561250614

Chinese company DEEP Robotics unveils an all-weather humanoid robot DR02 ⦿ IP66 Waterproof & Dustproof, reliable operation from -20°C to 55°C ⦿ 175 cm tall, total 20 kg carrying capacity ⦿ 275 TOPS integrated computer + multi-sensor perception system https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976272242410745942

Humanoids are on a fast track to surpass the agility and precise coordination of the world’s best martial arts champions. New Unitree G1 video: https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1977763866210935004

🚀 New Feature in LeRobot : Dataset Editing Tools for LeRobotDataset ! We’ve introduced a set of powerful utilities to make working with LeRobot datasets easier and more flexible than ever ! ✨ What’s new ✨ • 🗑️ Delete specific episodes from existing datasets • ✂️ Split https://x.com/LeRobotHF/status/1978126569055887421

Not pre-programmed. They feel. 10x fewer demonstrations 10x less practice time 10x less maintenance Again: these industrial robots don’t just move… They feel. If @BotaSystems can make these @KinovaRobotics arms assemble a whiteboard pen laid flat on a board using force https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1978453459775992089

The teleoperation economy is coming”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1976886575251571072

.@GoingBallistic5 got to experience 1X NEO’s teleportation and was impressed with its latency and tracking ability. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1978506494195708067

That’s a sleek-looking server. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976286033429053614

“Intelligence is whatever machines haven’t accomplished yet” – Larry Tesler https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1977844107260424411

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/1977626967559049488

PhysHSI enables humanoid robots to perform diverse, natural humanoid-scene interactions and loco-manipulation. Trained in simulation with RL and adversarial motion priors (AMP) on retargeted, object-annotated MoCap data, it uses LiDAR-camera fusion for robust sim-to-real. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1978154439597769160

🎙️ @akapoor_av8r is building @genrobotics_ai to solve the biggest deployment problem in robotics: Getting real robots to work in the real world. In this episode, he shares how he’s doing it, and why most robotics stacks aren’t built to scale. We talk about growing up in India, https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1976273441129971785

ARM CEO Rene Haas says the embedded chip market for physical AI will be bigger than data centers. Today, robots largely use repurposed automotive chips, but these are not designed specifically for robot. There will be tens/hundreds of chips per bot – the market will be gigantic https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1978189401831174167

Sankaet, Foundation’s founder, says humanoids in warfare will do things like walking and identifying targets autonomously, but humans will make higher-order decisions; for Foundation, both non-weaponized and weaponized military use cases are on the table. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1978184725786137011

Training robots to move like humans just got a lot easier. [📍GitHub] Most motion imitation codebases break somewhere: Unstable, incomplete, or missing key details. That’s why the team behind DeepMimic, AMP, and ASE just released MimicKit, a new open framework that finally https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1976550447109320917

Most robot policies fail because… they don’t know where to look or what to focus on. PEEK fixes that, using vision-language models (VLMs) to guide any visuomotor policy. ✅ Adds VLM-generated overlays showing “where” and “what” directly on training images ✅ Works with ACT, https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1977049479980228649

D2E: Scaling Vision-Action Pretraining on Desktop Data for Transfer to Embodied AI https://worv-ai.github.io/d2e/

Mario Bollini of Boston Dynamics says, given China’s national push to develop humanoids, the US needs its own concerted national strategy to foster a domestic ecosystem. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1977052598529409071

Elon’s recipe to win the tech race: – 1 billion AI chips – 1 terawatt of power – 100 million robots – innovate fastest – add salt to taste https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1976344931372544005

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