Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: A small humanoid robot wearing a cardboard box spaceman costume walks down a leaf-covered suburban sidewalk at dusk carrying a plastic Halloween pumpkin bucket, warm 80s houses with halloween decorations glowing behind it, cinematic autumn lighting, nostalgic film grain
Google just took another big step towards becoming ChatGPT for planet earth. I can’t overstate how important this is — geospatial AI commodified. Here’s what it can do: https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1981566109863289028
Nvidia just released ChronoEdit-14B on Hugging Face enables physics-aware image editing and action-conditioned world simulation through temporal reasoning. It distills priors from a 14B-parameter pretrained video generative model and separates inference into (i) a video https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1983953896415604836
👀 Meet @NVIDIAAI Nemotron Nano 2 VL, now hosted on Nebius AI Studio – 10× higher throughput – Document + video intelligence – Open weights, open data – Ready for production Build multimodal assistants today → https://x.com/nebiusaistudio/status/1983243873317974318
NVIDIA Launches Open Models and Data to Accelerate AI Innovation | NVIDIA Blog https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-models-data-ai/
A new open-source physics engine just dropped… and it could change how robots learn. Newton, built by @nvidia with support from @GoogleDeepMind and Disney Research, is now part of The Linux Foundation. It’s designed to bring precise, GPU-powered physics to robotics and https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1982726852507521065
Jensen at NVIDIA GTC: It’s likely that humanoid robots, which my friend Elon is also working on, will be one of the largest consumer electronics markets and one of the largest industrial equipment markets. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1983230275694760271
Chamath says Tesla’s AI5 chip will be a functional technology leap that will go into Cybercab and Optimus, and the energy business will be a critical adjunct to robotics and self-driving. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1981954391658861055
Tesla’s learned world simulator, a neural network-based system, tackles the challenge of evaluating autonomous driving and Optimus robot AI. Trained on a massive, curated dataset from Tesla’s fleet, it synthesizes future states (e.g., high-resolution, multi-camera video streams) https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1981802545594216845
The Metaculus forecast for arrival the first AGI has extended out ~3 years since its all-time low set in February this year. Now at May 2033. The ‘weak’ AGI standard, without robotic manipulation, is up from Sep 2026 to Oct 2027. (HT @ben_j_todd) https://x.com/robertwiblin/status/1983110134499860874
You know Tesla? Yeah the world model company https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1982804738899935481
“I want to be on TV with Brett” 😂 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1983318291063210464
Figure’s B200 cluster is now online. 33 units in sight that look like Supermicro 10U systems, each with 8 GPUs. Total cost, estimated by Grok, is ~$14M. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1981191616577847606
Here’s an incredible photo from Time Magazine of our F.03 robot autonomously running dishes 🖤 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1981761682910408731
miss ya Jenks”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1982273768215941517
Savage”” / X https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1983397002185715871
New Episode: @parada_car88104 leads the robotics team at Google DeepMind. Carolina believes in a future with a broad, rich ecosystem of diverse robot types, where AI is smart enough to embody any robot. We discuss her journey, advancements in Gemini Robotics 1.5, https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1981716948393271749
Here’s my view of U.S. vs China competition https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1983640903345696811
🚀Excited to team up with @NVIDIAAIDev to bring Nemotron Nano 2 VL to vLLM – a multimodal model powered by a hybrid Transformer-Mamba language backbone, built for video understanding and document intelligence✨ Full post here👇 https://x.com/vllm_project/status/1984334926972592193
We are so excited to be a launch partner for @nvidia Nemotron Nano 2 VL today and offer day-zero support for this highly accurate and efficient vision language model, alongside other models in the Nemotron family. To learn more, read our blog here https://x.com/basetenco/status/1983243273171845596
Got to say hi to @adcock_brett at the NVIDIA GTC pregame. Jensen’s keynote starts in one hour. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1983187543349965082
people are sleeping on this release NVIDIA blessed us with a new family of Nemotron RAG models 🔥 it comes with text retrievers, multimodal retrievers as well as layout detectors with commercially permissive license 👏 https://x.com/mervenoyann/status/1984302303570960666
Nemotron Nano VL 12B V2 by @nvidia is now on Replicate A 12B vision-language beast for document intelligence & video understanding. Handles up to 4 images or 1 video, extract data from invoices, compare pics, summarize clips, all in 10 languages! https://x.com/replicate/status/1983242266836890026
I spoke at NVIDIA yesterday about Figure and why solving general robotics is priority zero https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1983576387895357643
Jensen’s keynote discussing NVIDIA + Figure https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1983522032924111224
w/ Jensen at NVIDIA GTC https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1983219943073362041
Brett Adcock at NVIDIA GTC: Solving general-purpose AI for humanoid robots is ten to a hundred times harder than making the humanoid robots. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1983199160875790426
”NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N open reasoning VLA models are now integrated into @huggingface’s LeRobot with the v0.4.0 release. 🤖 Making it easier than ever for the open-source robotics community to customize and deploy robot foundation models. 👉 https://x.com/NVIDIARobotics/status/1983564485588549657
🚀 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐎𝐒𝐒 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠! 𝐋𝐞𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭 𝐯0.4.0 𝐢𝐬 𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄! We’re supercharging open-source robot learning with major updates to make it more powerful, scalable, and user-friendly. Highlights: * 📦 Dataset v3.0: A new chunked,”” / X https://x.com/LeRobotHF/status/1983234546280870389
1X has opened orders for the NEO humanoid in the US: $20k for owning a NEO or $499/month for subscription. An order can be secured with a $200 fully refundable order deposit. Users will be able to schedule a chore or command NEO to do a task in real-time, or have a conversation. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1983248445029949737
A humanoid hand with an IP68 waterproof rating, developed by a Chinese company Heyman Tech. The hand can even operate in deep-sea environments. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1981396525214552503
AGIBOT has launched a cloud platform that lets users upload raw videos of dance, martial arts or gestures. It captures the motion, trains an RL policy for the X2 humanoid. It also includes tools to sync voiceovers and facial expressions with choreography. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1982585578333106474
Coco Robotics taps UCLA professor to lead new physical AI research lab | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/14/coco-robotics-taps-ucla-professor-to-lead-new-physical-ai-research-lab/
Commercial traps that are quietly crippling deep-tech & robotics ventures… and how you actually fix them! Here are four surprising killers of scaling (beyond the “tech is awesome” myth) 1.Revenue stuck in limbo → Deals close, robot works in lab, but the customer payment”” / X https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1981281367313756512
Creepy clanker https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1983663618500747459
Deleting this app https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1983290937381138702
EngineAI’s upcoming full-size humanoid T800 – they went for a Terminator vibe with its hulking frame. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1982204939527938102
General-purpose humanoids on SME factory floors next year? Of course that’s your contention. Of course it is. You watched a slick demo with a voiceover about foundation models and now you think a language prompt and a depth camera will clear a CE audit and hit 45-second takt on https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1982904974632988831
Humanoid robots building eVTOL 😍”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1983165029051682935
Humanoids were long a thing of sci-fi, then they were a thing of research, but today, with the launch of NEO, humanoids become a product. NEO is the first step on a journey towards a more abundant future and we’re excited for you to join us on this journey. Order your NEO today. https://x.com/BerntBornich/status/1983235110729330705
I know Jannik for quite a while now, great to see his progress! He got into YC this May and look at him now, amazing! You can order now!”” / X https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1982856041412079979
Most humanlike robotic hand ever built❓ Developed by @SharpaRobotics in Singapore, it’s a 1:1 life-size, 22-DoF robotic hand designed for both precision and strength! Capable of manipulating fragile objects like an egg or applying 30 N of fingertip force without damage. ✅ https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1981633473220649050
NEO can charge itself. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1983254339087982820
Programming welding by hand. A few years ago, when I was still at @Siemens, I remember @wandelbots visiting us and showcasing their Trace Pen: You could teach a robot by simply waving a pen. At the time I thought it was just a novelty. They pivoted, but still. Crazy to see https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1982124977382944877
Reindustrialize America? How? By the 2000s, the global leaders were: 🇯🇵 FANUC, Yaskawa 🇩🇪 KUKA (now Chinese-owned) 🇨🇭 ABB Notice the missing flag? None were American. Today, FANUC alone holds ~18% of the world’s robotics market. Where are the American robotics companies? https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1982884414381273328
Researchers at Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) trained a Unitree G1 to pull a 1,400 kg car. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1982974679204651242
Robert: Did you imagine when you were a kid that you’d be embodied inside a humanoid robot someday? Karpathy: uh.. ya https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1983115559693889605
Robotics meets 3D printing. A six-axis robotic arm that prints beyond flat surfaces. Free movement, non-planar paths, and multi-angle control open new possibilities for structural design and manufacturing. ✅ 500°C all-metal hot end for industrial materials ✅ 55×55×50 cm https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1981991520266867135
Short dude, but big energy. Give it up for… Booster K1! https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1981389276270252324
Tiny robots working together like ants? Swarms are showing us a new path in robotics. Researchers at Hanyang University built micro robots that use magnetic fields to move and work as a team. With up to 1,000 units in a swarm, these robots can carry heavy loads, move through https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1983449715204120951
We’re inviting the first set of users to pre-order and experience NEO. This is a product that is early for its time. Some features are still in active development & polish. There will be mistakes. We will quickly learn from them, and use your early feedback to improve NEO for”” / X https://x.com/ericjang11/status/1983257382739390820
When I brought 1X to TED2025 they promised something insane – people in the audience would have a humanoid robot in their homes within a year. Now these mad lads are delivering. Huge congrats Bernt, Dar, Eric and team! Order complete :)”” / X https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1983259593330569258
Everyone in robotics talks about intelligence. Almost no one talks about trust. https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1983545491427127609
Skild Brain putting AirPods in cases and assembling a GPU compute tray https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1983613533477859417
NEW TO ROBOTICS❓ This is your crash course! I put together 10 domains, real examples, and where to learn more. It’s the best starting point you’ll find online & foundation you’ll return to: ( Save this thread for later 🧵) https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1982449484039631000
It’s true – everyone is talking about manufacturing, but that’s not sizing the timeline The ~100× harder problem is solving general robotics – building a robot that’s truly autonomous and general-purpose It’s hard for the public to see real progress when most humanoids today”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1983257404562386967
Yann LeCun says none of the humanoid robot companies has any idea how to make the robots smart enough to be generally useful, and their future hinges on breakthroughs in “”world model planning type architectures.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1981949426198360137
NEO Specs – Weight: 66 lbs – Height: 5’6″” – Lift Capacity: 154 lbs – Carry Capacity: 55 lbs – Battery Life: 4 Hours (with Fast Charging) – Processor: Based on NVIDIA Jetson Thor – Vision: 2x 8MP Fisheye Cameras – 4 Mics, 3 Speakers – Noise Level: 22 dB (Max) – 22 DoF hand https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1983306801551376611
Elon on Optimus v3 production during the Q3 earnings call: ⦿ The Optimus V3 hardware design wouldn’t actually be frozen, even through start of production. ⦿ We’ll have a production-intent prototype ready to show off in Q1, probably February or March. ⦿ We’re going to be https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1981268037690151397
Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm: “”Optimus can fold laundry. He can wipe the table down really well. The tactile nature of his hand is actually very good…We’re redefining robotics and what AI brings to robotics.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1982830344719175850
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