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Runway News | New Funding to Scale World Simulation https://runwayml.com/news/runway-series-e-funding
The Waymo World Model: A New Frontier For Autonomous Driving Simulation https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation/
This model is incredibly impressive and a massive step forward for autonomous driving!! 🚘 Huge congrats to the @Waymo team, and a special shoutout to the project’s main driver @maxjiang93! Thanks for having me to have contributed a small piece to this one🥂”” https://x.com/songyoupeng/status/2019828959660372387
We’re excited to introduce the Waymo World Model–a frontier generative mode for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation built on @GoogleDeepMind’s Genie 3. By simulating the “impossible”, we proactively prepare the Waymo Driver for some of the most rare and”” https://x.com/Waymo/status/2019804616746029508
Clean workflow to reskin reality 360 pano > nano banana > world labs Big limit is the navigable volume. Once we can auto fuse multiple 360 panos this approach gets v compelling. Y capture so much 3d data when are you need are a few nicely sampled panos?”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2021702814376894653
PixVerse R1 is here! Unlock the future of real-time interactive worlds in 720P. What’s more? Experience endless possibilities for creation in R1 community. RT+Reply+Follow=300Creds (72H ONLY) + Invite Code (500 RANDOM WINNERS) in DMs”” https://x.com/PixVerse_/status/2021486175391973489
Am I the only one noticing that Figure AI website shifted to homes as factory ROI and BMW went quiet?”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2020421368286790056
We recently sat down with @adcock_brett at @Figure_robot to discuss Helix 02, the future of Humanoids, and Brett’s vision for Figure. It’s a full blown Humanoid takeover. (w/ @DavidBlundin ) (0:00:00) – Neural Nets, Data Moats & The Age of Abundance (0:04:06) – Going All‑In on”” https://x.com/PeterDiamandis/status/2021721908652228923
OpenAI’s Super Bowl ad featured a bimanual robot”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2020941245175169115
🎙️ Camilla Mazzoleni is the co-founder & CPO of FORGIS, a Zurich-based startup building an AI operating layer for industrial automation: In this episode, Camilla shares a founder journey shaped long before robotics. She grew up as a competitive alpine skier, leaving home early”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2019335941350191493
A complete library of resources that caters to all levels of Roboticists. 📍Save the GitHub for later This one is not a single project or course. It is a curated robotics resource library. Open-source robots Hands-on project ideas Research repositories ROS and ROS 2 learning”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2020211717947400326
A high school team built a robot climbing system in six weeks. Watching this, what stands out is how practical it is. The mechanism looks thought through, stable, and realistic for competition use. No overengineering, no gimmicks, just something that is meant to work when it”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2020783751014301983
A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation. [📍Save for later] It is a foundational robotics textbook that universities use to teach full graduate-level courses. From body motion to manipulation, grasping, control, and nonholonomic planning. This is the mathematical”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2019849335052050502
A robotic hand that can detach from its arm, crawl away, pick things up, and then come back to work again. Yes, it looks a bit like Thing from The Addams Family. But the idea behind it is very serious. This project, developed at EPFL together with MIT, rethinks what dexterity”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2020936517548482687
AI for robotics has some monumental challenges, like high dimensionality and reasoning with the physical world. Ashok Elluswamy, AI lead at Tesla, thinks the hardest problem is Evaluation. – Loss isn’t a perfect indicator of Policy Neural Network’s quality. – Testing in the”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2020220051056714215
Apptronik’s Series A extended to a total of $935 million, taking its valuation to well above $5.5 billion. New investors include AT&T Ventures, John Deere, and the Qatar Investment Authority.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2021660902526013904
Can finger position control alone ever match human dexterity? Probably not. The missing piece is contact mechanics: [📍 Paper and Website] Instead of adding more sensors or control tricks, PLATO hand changes the fingertip itself. Each finger combines a soft, compliant pulp”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2021146137005023326
Deep learning curriculum for robotics. [📍 Link to Playlist below ] Modern robotics workflows often integrate deep learning models with traditional algorithms for mapping, localization, and control. This playlist builds it from scratch: Single neurons → Backprop → CNNs →”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2020574104819015698
Everyone talks about humanoids. Meanwhile, @loki_robotics:”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2019516388943999237
Foundation Robotics is working on a tendon-driven hand.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2021408325418746162
Mathematics for Machine Learning (47-page) An introduction from UC Berkeley Linear Algebra Calculus and Optimization Probability [📍SAVE FOR LATER] https://t.co/ns3PmQi4ie — Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2021298884098531797
New Episode. Nils Pihl (@broodsugar), CEO of Auki Labs, discuss the “”Real World Web”” and making physical spaces accessible to robots. We dive into decentralized mapping and Auki’s latest retail deployments. Nils also shares his take on the US-China robotics race, drawing on 15″” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2020927401312875007
New humanoid startup out of Hungary: Allonic The unique hand design moves away from rigid industrial design toward a biomimetic approach. – Each finger is braided around like a rope in a single autonomous process; this process also includes the threading of the tendons through”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2021344830924923267
Now that the Atlas enterprise platform is getting to work, the research version gets one last run in the sun.”” Farewell to the OG electric Atlas, a true engineering marvel!”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2020202059103121547
Peak robotics demo. Still no dishwasher replacement. And to be fair: this is impressive. The roboticists building this are world-class engineers. But in many conversations with founders, one thing is clear: as an industry, we now have to start delivering real, everyday value.”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2020058987475984850
Robert Playter is retiring. – A former NCAA Division I National Champion gymnast – Athletic career highly influenced his work in robotics – At the MIT Leg Lab, programmed a bipedal robot to do the world’s first 3D robotic somersault – 26 years at Boston Dynamics, serving as CEO”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2021378276762189932
Robotics is obsessed with foundation models and humanoids. It’s missing the most critical piece. One founder just raised $3M to build the “AWS for robots.” Fixing the silent bottleneck for most robotics startup: Data Infrastructure: 🧵”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2020508146377142292
The first-gen electric Atlas performs a perfect round-off backflip, thanks to a whole-body learning framework from the RAI Institute. This framework enables both high-level athleticism and a natural gait. Both Boston Dynamics and the RAI Institute are owned by Hyundai Motor”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2019824485403357204
UK-based startup ‘Humanoid’ announced KinetIQ, an AI framework with a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model at its core. It uses a four-layer architecture: fleet orchestration, task decomposition, VLA, and RL for whole-body control. It works on both bipedal and wheeled robots.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2019492878549160167
Witnessed the future of combat sports in SF last night. @cixliv and the REK team put on a great show!”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2020529630000652730
China’s Alibaba launches AI model to power robots https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/alibaba-ai-model-robotics-rynnbrain-china.html
Humans in VR headsets piloting humanoid robots in a cage match. I love that this is your Saturday in San Francisco in 2026. The homies at REK have an amazing event this Saturday in SF – the night before the Super Bowl. Code BILAWAL gets you 50% off tickets. Not sponsored; just”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2019545022073598233
Joel Jang https://joeljang.github.io/world-models-for-robotics
Not the flashiest demos, but what’s under the hood represents a foundational shift for general-purpose robotics. World models are the next-gen foundation of Physical AI, not the VLM backbones found in typical VLAs. DreamZero is a 14B-parameter World Action Model (WAM) by NVIDIA”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2019460701811851593
Robots usually fail for one simple reason: they don’t understand what will happen next. [📍Paper, code & task gallery at the end] > 14B “World Action Model” from @nvidia: DreamZero… Instead of copying motions or replaying demonstrations, this model predicts how the world”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2019418751976800520
Electric car maker Faraday Future announced the sale of two humanoid robots in Las Vegas yesterday, aiming to be the “”first US company to deliver both humanoid and bionic robots.”” However, these are white-labeled A2 and X2 humanoids from the Chinese company AGIBOT. The”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2019519188407328838
Non-dilutive grants from local and central governments in China have enabled rapid scaling of infrastructure and R&D in AI and robotics.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2021277143188242952
An Open Source Dev Kit for AI-native Robotics 📍GitHub: https://t.co/Et5ffb8yW1 Saying hello to me friend and founder of the robot learning company, @JannikGrothusen. Great for beginners! —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2020967022918566114
Open Source Robotic Arm for All Developers [📍Github Below] A robotic arm project (reBot-DevArm) dedicated to lowering the barrier to learning Embodied AI. They focus on “”True Open Source”” (not just the code), they unreservedly open source everything: > Hardware Blueprints:”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2021661272144584932
A training-free framework that guides robot behavior in real time. [📍 Project, paper & videos below 👇] VLS runs uncut, steering pretrained policies across long-horizon tasks. Most robots don’t fail because they lack skill. They fail because their behavior isn’t aligned with”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2019696630283260003
.@collision and I interviewed @elonmusk. 0:00:00 – Orbital data centers 0:36:46 – Grok and alignment 0:59:56 – xAI’s business plan 1:17:21 – Optimus and humanoid manufacturing 1:30:22 – Does China win by default? 1:44:16 – Lessons from running SpaceX 2:20:08 – DOGE 2:38:28 -“” https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2019458363495456894
.@elonmusk told me he plans to build “Optimus Academy” to train an army of humanoid robots. > “millions of simulated robots in the simulated world” > “tens of thousands of robots in the real world, to close the simulation to reality gap.” Why? There’s two big differences”” https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2019513611002007717
As I was preparing to interview Elon, I put together some notes to help me think through orbital datacenters. Turned them into a blog post. Please take them with grains of salt so big you might confuse them for rocks.”” https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2019479454054248815
Elon : For Optimus, it’s difficult to match the flywheel of the existing vehicle fleet. The plan is to build a fleet of 10k-30k robots to perform self-play and testing. Millions of robotic agents will train in Tesla’s “”reality generator”” (simulation), the real robots can then”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2019479864525611472
Elon explains why Optimus will cost more than smaller, non-intelligent humanoid robots like those from Unitree.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2019842414501093776
Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/elon-musk-suggests-spate-of-xai-exits-have-been-push-not-pull/
Elon says Grok will orchestrate Optimus robots; for instance, by coordinating a fleet to construct an entire factory. He refused to comment on the merger of xAI and Tesla.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2019473047733039353
Elon: – SpaceX will launch more AI (compute) than the cumulative amount on Earth of everything else combined. – Most AI will be inference; already, inference for the purpose of training is most of training.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2019468740346212805
For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to”” https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2020640004628742577?s=46
The first question I asked @elonmusk: What’s the point of sending GPUs into space? The whole idea behind orbital data centers is that if the launch costs continue to drop, it will become cheaper to put GPUs in orbit than to build power plants on Earth. The problem with this”” https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2019499174384005458
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