Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Top-down isometric pixel art factory floor in PS1 GTA1 style, chunky robot sprites and mechanical arms moving along neon-lit conveyor belts, saturated orange and yellow industrial lighting against dark concrete, dithered metal textures, sparks rendered as bright pixel clusters, 32-bit aesthetic with high contrast and visible pixels, bird’s-eye view of coordinated robotic choreography in motion.
Brett Adcock captured this three-minute uncut video of the Figure 03 humanoid running around the San Jose campus.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2011886714726592515
Ignore the guy yelling out his car window “”those things are going to kill us all one day””😂”” https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2011959092911489399
From text to assembled objects, end to end. The idea is simple but powerful: You describe an object in words. AI designs it in 3D. A robot figures out how to build it from real parts. Text to robotic assembly of multicomponent objects is introduced by a team from MIT and”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2012239250939347083
What if your bricklayer could fly? Researchers at Imperial College London tested a new way to build using cooperating drones instead of cranes or scaffolding. Two drones work together. One lays down foam and lightweight cement. The other checks accuracy while humans supervise”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2012963986069745862
Announcing new fitness program at Figure”” https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2011880712220393592
GTA 6″” https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2012269904955850877
9 Notable advancements in robotics that we can’t miss ▪️ Boston Dynamic’s Atlas becomes an enterprise-grade robot ▪️ Siemens and NVIDIA: the next wave of automation with physical AI ▪️ RoboPocket from Neomatrix ▪️ Aletta for end-to-end blood draw ▪️ XPeng’s IRON robot ▪️”” https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2012957046543712552
A high-quality haptic control for robots as a weekend project? All for under $600. [📍 Save Github & arXiv for later] A team built DOGlove, an open-source haptic glove for robot teleoperation that you can assemble yourself for under $600. It is built for real control, not”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2013173665412547026
Can differentiable simulation actually work for real robot locomotion? This work answers that with a rare yes. The core problem has always been contact. Soft contact models give smooth gradients but break realism. Hard contact models are realistic but kill optimization due to”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2014051169610424519
Eric Jang, AI team lead at 1X, is leaving after architecting major advancements in the AI stack. Joining in 2022 as the company’s first SF Bay Area employee, he helped lead 1X’s growth as it relocated its global headquarters to the Bay Area – a hub that now employs hundreds of”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2014062585545630125
Hyundai’s Atlas Roadmap 2026: Establish a training facility where Atlas can learn complex tasks by mapping movements into precision behavioral datasets 2028: Begin deploying Atlas in Hyundai’s Software-Defined Factories for high-performance sequencing tasks By 2030, robots”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2014038658979078452
I think this is a really important question that robot experts I talk to seem split on: how big is the impact of LLMs/multimodal models/etc on the development of general purpose robotics? The physical world is very hard, how much does GenAI close the gap?”” https://x.com/emollick/status/2014050886297751896
Most robots fail at the last millimeter. That’s where precision, not power, decides everything. I’ve seen production lines where operators still guide fragile parts by hand because robots couldn’t hold the tolerance. This system aims to close that gap. It executes”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2012086442344812917
New humanoid startup from China, founded by the former head of Tesla’s China design center. The company has unveiled the MATRIX-3 humanoid concept: woven fabric skin, tactile-sensing fingertips, 27-DoF tendon-driven hands, and linear actuators in the legs.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2011916840054718697
Simple transfer plate that moves in… two directions. This kind of mechanism can enable flexible 2D movement for boxes or parts without complex robotics. Simple mechanical design. Can move items both X and Y. Easier than full mobile robots in many cases, and useful for”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2012811258806816869
This simulation shows what a mobile inspection robot can actually do inside a tight industrial cabinet room. In the demo, Aru performs a full inspection workflow in a constrained space. Robots like Aru are becoming practical tools for inspections in spaces that are cramped,”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2013898415734735215
XPeng CEO He Xiaopeng has announced that the first ET1 robot unit, developed to automotive-grade standards, has rolled off the production line. Chinese media Leaderobot describe ET1 as the mass-production test version, potentially with performance adjustments to suit real-world”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2013737270856294868
Robots don’t need more rules. They need better ways to learn: RL with synthetic data. Group Relative Policy Optimization, or GRPO, is not just another RL trick. It points to a different learning philosophy. Instead of giving a robot one simple reward, GRPO compares many”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2012448824904557015
Humans usually guess what robots feel. This system actually lets you feel it. This is an end-to-end high resolution touch teleoperation demo built with Samsung. Real tactile signals from a robot hand were streamed directly into a human fingertip display and a glove in real”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2012601631347470741
🎙️ I talk with @animesh_garg , Assistant Professor at @GeorgiaTech and one of the leading voices in robot learning today: We talk about growing up in India, building his first autonomous vehicle on a $280 budget after being rejected from a CMU program, and how that failure”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2011724285384261673
Israeli self-driving company Mobileye is acquiring Mentee Robotics, an Israeli humanoid startup, for $900 million ($612 million in cash plus stock). Mentee was co-founded by Amnon Shashua, who also co-founded Mobileye and currently serves as its President and CEO. Mobileye is a”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2011626891334336732
Mathematics for Robotics, is a graduate-level course at the University of Michigan that introduces applied mathematics for robotics engineers. [📍 Bookmark for later use] Topics include vector spaces, orthogonal bases, projection theorem, least squares, matrix factorizations,”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2013688737578815715
The number of people needed to develop a general-purpose robot 🖤 Small passionate teams will always out-execute big teams”” https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2013330117414789584
Linear Algebra for Computer Vision, Robotics, and Machine Learning https://t.co/vxugIKN8za Credit: University of Pennsylvania — Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2012164694866337839
20 Open-Source Robotics Projects 🦾 ON GITHUB [📍 Bookmark this or it will get lost] 20 projects that actually teach you how robots work, not just where to clone a repo. ——–/——–/——–/——— 1.Hugging Face Robotics Course with LeRobot A complete open-source learning program”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2011898457813107007
Excited for this! I think it is by far the most interesting approach of any BCI effort.”” https://x.com/sama/status/2013403329322242261
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