Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Wide photorealistic view of the Mizzou columns monument where two of the six Ionic limestone columns are replaced by massive industrial robotic arms in brushed steel, standing vertically as structural supports, joints and actuators detailed, supporting a classical limestone entablature with ROBOTS carved in Roman serif letters, late afternoon golden light, green campus quad, red brick buildings behind, sharp architectural photography
Any2Track: Galbot’s whole-body motion tracking system. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1985219089015664676
NVIDIA World Simulation with Video Foundation Models for Physical AI https://huggingface.co/papers/2511.00062
MKBHD kind of gets the data flywheel effect but could not connect the dots. Zero appreciation for the hard engineering grind or early adopters excited to be part of shaping the future. The future is not built by armchair critics throwing shade from the sidelines. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1984360493646299397
NEO seized every single headline. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1985429433327722609
The world’s perception of 1X’s product launch is fascinating. Some thoughts: * 1X’s product is to give you 3 to 4 hours of in-home labor that does some chores well and more chores to an okay level, but in a completely safe and compliant manner. * At $500/month. For 120 hours a”” / X https://x.com/soumithchintala/status/1985391663712207056
Spencer Huang of NVIDIA shares the first use cases he would love to see for humanoid robots https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1985767748358849019
We will be hearing more and more about Spencer Huang from now on. He recently joined NVIDIA, the family business led by his father Jensen Huang, and is already shaping the company’s vision for robotics and physical AI. His mix of curiosity, technical depth, and quiet confidence https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/1985427046013813093
New episode: Spencer Huang is a Product Lead for @NVIDIARobotics, focusing on open-source simulation frameworks, synthetic data generation, and robot autonomy. Spencer breaks down RL breakthroughs unlocked by hardware, open-source simulation, synthetic data flywheels, the https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1984641886230102217
The Royal Surrey Hospital performs 10,000th robotic surgery https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v8176z7dlo
This was a key figure from the original GPT-3 paper. It proved LLMs could scale. We now believe we’re the first to see this hold true for robotic foundation models as well. It wasn’t obvious this would be true. We believe prior null results were due to insufficient useful data https://x.com/E0M/status/1985766175255773483
Elon Musk describes AI as a “”supersonic tsunami”” that will overtake digital jobs “”like lightning.”” He expects physical jobs, like cooking, plumbing, and electrical work, to exist for much longer. He predicts that ultimately AI and robots combined will make working optional. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1985404620391514377
Excited to build models that simulate the world? 🌐🌐🌐 Our team is hiring!! See posts below for Research Scientists and Engineers. The roles are somewhat fluid, but rule of thumb is the RS typically require a PhD. Preference for London or Toronto. Apply here: 👇👇”” / X https://x.com/jparkerholder/status/1985729367469596843
toyota’s autonomous wheelchair with foldable legs can climb places https://www.designboom.com/technology/autonomous-wheelchair-foldable-tentacle-legs-climb-stairs-sit-toyota-japan-mobility-show-2025-10-29-2025/
Figure 03 Walking with a more natural gait, with toebox articulation in action. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1984676767744029108
Happy Halloween! https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1984458129661419898
Here you go Pat. As discussed, I’ve been testing a robot in my home We are pushing on full autonomy. Our AI stack has been completely refactored for general purpose work https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1983730368848261248
something is coming to @RedRocksCO… …grab tickets + vip packages for nov 7+8 now at https://x.com/deadmau5/status/1983942961927762146
AI-video to robot transfer Generate AI video with Google VEO -> reconstruct the 3D motion -> train sim-to-real https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1985802136568123421
We’re introducing EnvHub to LeRobot! Upload simulation environments to the @hugginigface hub, and load them in lerobot, with one line of code ! env = lerobot.make_env(“”username/my-env””, trust_remote_code=True) Back in 2017, @OpenAI called on the community to build Gym https://x.com/jadechoghari/status/1986482455235469710
🎙️ Tom Zhang (@tom_jiahao), founder and CEO of @DaxoRobotics: with over 100 actuators they challenge everything we thought we knew about dexterity. In this episode, we talk about his journey from growing up in a mountain village in China to launching one of the most talked-about https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1983817399750086986
1X NEO’s tendon drives are quiet, 95% backdrivable, and rated to endure 2 million motion cycles when operating at nominal load. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1984673258764190187
Another humanoid robotics startup, Norway-based Physical Robotics, is out of stealth. The company was founded by Phuong Nguyen, a co-founder of Halodi Robotics (now rebranded as 1X Technologies). He was Chief Science Officer at Halodi for eight years, leading the development of https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1985762941585801688
Big news from @mimicrobotics! The team just raised $16M to deploy its frontier physical Al across industries, enabling robots to take on the intricate, dexterous and manual work that still depends on human skill. Backed by @Elaia_Partners and @speedinvest, with support from https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1985266963656921438
Carolina Parada says cross-embodiment transfer in Gemini Robotics happened much sooner than expected; different robot types learning from each other will be incredibly valuable. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1984368514262876471
CHINA🇨🇳 INSANITY: Hot new robot accused of being a HUMAN SUIT – CEO goes LIVE to swear “IT’S NOT ME!” Reverse Turing Test LIVE! #XPengIRON #Chinatech https://x.com/junshiguancha/status/1986414042924392737
Chinese company XPENG unveiled their female humanoid robot https://x.com/FearedBuck/status/1986186890697941287
Gripper-cushion grips it all❗ Handles sheet metal, liquid tanks, nonwovens, and pipes: Most gripper are made to pick or grab just one type of object… often tool changing is the fastest and most efficient option. FORMHAND Automation GmbH gripper pads are revolutionizing https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1985626956801478716
Hangcha Forum Highlights Humanoid Robotics at CeMAT ASIA 2025_HANGCHA https://www.hcforklift.com/talk/detail/471
Humanoids, to think we may have human looking machines live in our homes sometime soon is crazy… I speak to AI models on voice all the time, to have them respond in a form factor that looks like me, moves like me, with expressions like me, could be mad. Can’t believe I didn’t https://x.com/nikhilkamathcio/status/1984553343830933652
Introducing GEN-0, our latest 10B+ foundation model for robots ⏱️ built on Harmonic Reasoning, new architecture that can think & act seamlessly 📈 strong scaling laws: more pretraining & model size = better 🌍 unprecedented corpus of 270,000+ hrs of dexterous data Read more 👇 https://x.com/GeneralistAI/status/1985742083806937218
It will be a “”march of 9s”” like FSD. Some scenarios will require continuous teleop and others only occasional intervention. The teleop-to-autonomous ratio will decrease over time. A 1:10 overall output ratio for laundry work would be a significant force multiplier when achieved.”” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1985417922207236132
Mimic Robotics lands $16M to bring human-level dexterity to industrial robots — TFN https://techfundingnews.com/mimic-robotics-16m-human-level-dexterity-industrial-robots/
PHUMA Physically-Grounded Humanoid Locomotion Dataset https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1985716700541829276
Physical Intelligence on Four Legs – Analog https://analog.io/news/physical-intelligence-on-four-legs/
Robotics companies are hiding a dirty secret. Their tendon-driven hands break down. It’s an unsolved problem. …all except one. 100,000 finger cycles, no motor overheating, almost zero tendon wear. How did a tiny startup pull it off?🧵 https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1984988776536400097
Robotics is no longer limited by data. In one recent unveiling, @GeneralistAI introduced GEN-0, a “10B+ foundation model for robots,” offering bold claims about scale, data, and generalization. Robotics keeps chasing capability. Deployment is still the missing frontier. Here https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1985995615315124259
Robots are getting smarter, but most still fail the same way. They don’t learn from their own mistakes. A new paper proposes something different: a way for robots to self-improve directly from their failures in the real world. It’s called PLD (Probe, Learn, Distill). The idea: https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1985418635456761898
Spider-inspired robot crawls the gut to deliver precision therapy | EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1102526
The new XPENG IRON outside inside https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1986138731825500333
THIS CLANKER IS USELESS https://x.com/bishara/status/1984026877057733066
Top 10 smartest robot dogs in the world redefining technology https://interestingengineering.com/lists/top-10-robot-dogs-in-the-world
Ultra-light fabric muscles bring lifelike motion to wearable robots https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/kimm-fabric-muscle-wearable-robot
XPENG brings the female version of the IRON robot on stage. It walks like a fashion model with crossing steps and rotating pelvis. You can tell they took a well-rounded approach to posterior design. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1986134285339009225
Xpeng Debuts ‘Most Human-Like’ Iron Robot, Details VLT Brain and 2026 Production Goal | Humanoids Daily https://www.humanoidsdaily.com/feed/xpeng-debuts-most-human-like-iron-robot-details-vlt-brain-and-2026-production-goal
XPENG unveils the next-gen IRON humanoid. – The robot can be customized to be male or female. – Soft 3D lattice structures and soft skin are used for human-like body curves. – The 5′ 7″” robot has human-like spine movement. – Next-gen hands use tiny harmonic joints to achieve https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1986098716881895606
Excited to introduce TWIST2, our next-generation humanoid data collection system. TWIST2 is portable (use anywhere, no MoCap), scalable (100+ demos in 15 mins), and holistic (unlock major whole-body human skills). Fully open-sourced: https://x.com/ZeYanjie/status/1986126096480587941
Most multi-drone systems struggle with one thing: coordination under real-world constraints. A new paper in Science Robotics from TU Delft proposes a model-based approach that lets multiple quadrotors jointly move and orient a cable-suspended load. BUT: without relying on https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1984674944458846219
Butter-Bench: Evaluating LLM Controlled Robots for Practical Intelligence | Andon Labs https://andonlabs.com/evals/butter-bench
People who’ve never set foot in a factory will never understand. I watched this three times. https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1984538292927521273
ABB’s top industrial chip and robotics expert Pang Zhibo leaves Sweden for China | South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3331021/abbs-top-industrial-chip-and-robotics-expert-pang-zhibo-leaves-sweden-china
Companies selling the dream of autonomous household humanoid robots today would be better off embracing reality and selling “remote operated household help”. Have teams of employees running them 24/7, with the option to reduce their workload as autonomous behaviors become viable.”” / X https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1985390721315324380
Figure 02 got a Red Dot award 🔥 https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1984018966063497702
Most industrial robots can move with precision. Very few can adapt when the job… changes. @mbodiai, a New York startup, is building an embodied-AI layer that lets anyone teach robots new tasks. Just by talking to them. Instead of long reprogramming cycles, operators use https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1986143123333140488
The robot’s walking controller is powered entirely by a neural network running on-device via embedded GPU”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1984623436120178709
Bats inspire WPI researchers to develop drones using echolocation – The Robot Report https://www.therobotreport.com/wpi-researchers-create-bat-inspired-search-rescue-drones/
Introducing the world’s largest, most capable, robotic foundation model.”” / X https://x.com/E0M/status/1985760232170209583
Most robotics teams can make a robot move… very few can make it work every day in the real world! @roboforce_inc was just featured in Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote, not for a demo but for a robot they claim is already working in the field. Their system, TITAN, is built for https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1983942883162951879
A new startup, Gradient Robots, has been announced, founded by K-Scale’s core engineering team, with the mission to be “”the open-source Unitree for America.”” The former K-Scale COO says there are some behind-the-scenes reasons that made K-Scale a hard bet for investors. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1986191171568439496
K-Scale Labs, the open-source humanoid robot startup, is canceling K-Bot pre-orders and refunding deposits due to funding woes. Founder Ben shares: “I have not been able to find a lead investor,” leading to “had to lay off most of the team” with under a month of runway left. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1985838243443851322
AquaWomb: Artificial womb in glass tank could save premature babies https://interestingengineering.com/science/aquawomb-artificial-womb-premature-babies
But robots can not feel… or can they? [Find the paper here ⬇] Scientists have developed a way for robots to sense touch all over their bodies without needing expensive, complicated equipment. ✅ Instead of using lots of sensors, the robot’s internal tech senses touch https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/1984176634467844371
Optimus 🎃 https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1984421303982702691
Elon Musk says Tesla needs “gigantic chip fab” for its AI and robotics https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/07/elon-musk-says-tesla-needs-gigantic-chip-fab-terra-for-ai-and-robotics-tsmc-intel.html
Do more with less strain: UTA’s robotic arm – News Center – The University of Texas at Arlington https://www.uta.edu/news/news-releases/2025/10/24/do-more-with-less-utas-robotic-arm
Tesla: “”We, Robot”” 1 year later, XPENG: “”We, Robots”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1985431630291542132
Elon Musk: “”I’m not going to build a robot army if I can be easily kicked out by activist investors. No way.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1984411601345396951
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