Image created with gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: A scratched VR headset sits on weathered concrete in a foggy Chinese demolition yard, power cable coiled in dust, muted grays and faded teals, a brown horse stands distant among rubble in soft focus, overcast natural light, observational realism, decelerated stillness, large white text overlay reading AR/VR in bold sans-serif, Jia Zhangke aesthetic, desaturated documentary texture, human-scale framing, quietly surreal everyday rupture.
World Labs Announces New Funding | World Labs https://www.worldlabs.ai/blog/funding-2026
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs raises $1 billion in funding https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-pioneer-fei-fei-lis-192214332.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9rYWdpLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIHn6aL6ECAJH2dSErr8YVZLehWRdwRA_q2KzFp8_WzVMfX6CWRlOPG8iQwhJU7OBw8yR61sFu8By2DQp7HpizjBEq4q0OYH62Quw_FMZcYvFIE9B26OylhW0vEdtcOfyNQL7fKiQ-NS_4FL-V3dPP5JEh0CfF7PDggqv3JfrJfZ
Pixels are all you need! Just kidding 🙂 Whether or not explicit 3D representations survive the bitter lesson, one thing is pretty clear — vision & robotics, perceiving & acting are on a glorious collision course.”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2023902733632208938
World Models vs Game Engines — Who Wins? Gaming stocks had a bloodbath after Google’s Genie 3. Unity down. Roblox down. Nintendo down. Unity down 35%. Unity’s CEO posted a whole thread. Tim Sweeney weighed in. They’re both saying the same thing — world models won’t replace”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2022431813969260783
Phoenix-4: Real-Time Human Rendering with Emotional Intelligence https://www.tavus.io/post/phoenix-4-real-time-human-rendering-with-emotional-intelligence
🎙️ Grace Brown is the founder and CEO of Andromeda, building social companion robots designed for aged care and healthcare environments: In this episode, Grace shares a founder journey that started long before a company existed. She had been building robots since her teenage”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2022023650908545066
🤖 @UnitreeRobotics robots performed martial arts at China’s Spring Festival Gala — sparking major debate on Zhihu. From a technical lens, Zhihu contributor 也说 analyzed what actually matters 👇 1️⃣ Sync with autonomy In the opening backflip, robots jumped together — but landed”” https://x.com/ZhihuFrontier/status/2023794225616502932
A swarm of 48 Unitree G1s”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2024210654232719825
Bioinspired robot Fly – Roll – Walk – Crawl Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4), a revolutionary robot inspired by nature’s most adaptable creatures. > Capable of multiple forms of movement: flying, rolling, crawling, and more. > Features adaptive appendages that function as”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2023672009683501443
China 🇨🇳 has released a video of shooting drills involving Terminator-like robots. The line between reality & fiction is becoming increasingly blurred. via @Sizhe_bitcat.”” https://x.com/DefenseTrends/status/2023963202711658522
Don’t sleep on the exponential trajectory of humanoid robots!”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2023433561056141514
If you’re not certain: *this* is AI slop, for once. How to tell: not from Unitree or any credible account, this model of Unitree doesn’t exist, these hands don’t exist, what’s going on with the… ah forget it. It’s all slop capitalizing on the Gala.”” https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/2024001310865924599
New Episode: @benedektasi is leading Allonic, a Hungarian robotics startup leveraging textile technology to create humanoid hands that mimic human anatomy. We discuss their 3D braiding process, engineering complexities, and Benedek’s vision for the future of robotics. 0:52″” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2023826942232064274
Perceptive Humanoid Parkour (PHP) introduces a modular framework that enables the Unitree G1 humanoid to perform long-horizon, vision-based parkour. – It chains retargeted human motion clips into diverse, long-horizon kinematic reference trajectories. – RL expert policies learn”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2023902198997151799
Physical AI won’t just be limited to controlling robots and spatial computing; it will usher in a new era of machine design. You will be able to “”vibe design”” a robot – or a part of a robot – or a machine that manufactures robot parts – using high-level specifications such as”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2022767369832272286
Really worth a read! As someone who has worked on 3D vision for almost 10 years, Vincent’s blogpost speaks out so vividly what have been thinking for a long time. We should always think what the real problems are. Thus, I believe CV will be obsolete not just for robot learning.”” https://x.com/songyoupeng/status/2023570268426563870
robots building robots… •unitree dropped a video of their g1 humanoid assembling robot legs in their own shenzhen factory using the unifolm embodied ai model. yes, robots building robots at actual production speed •the tasks are real bimanual manipulation, picking parts and”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2024045245248295365
Robots helping other robots so none of them breaks. Instead of every robot needing its own battery, sensors, and connection, they share with their neighbors. If one robot “gets blind” or runs out of power, the others support it and the whole group keeps moving. More robots →”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2022958102904029684
Same task, same scene. Different robot. Everything breaks… LAP trains the model to express motion in plain language, for example “move forward 3 cm” or “tilt 15 degrees” instead of predicting joint torques or tokens. Because language carries structure and meaning, the policy”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2024136907492380750
Shipbuilding normally needs shipyards. This boat came out of a microfactory. Printed by robots. A full-scale vessel made inside an AI-driven facility, not a dockyard. Forget molds, heavy tooling, and offshore fabrication: Just a digital file → robotic print → finished”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2023110856892899752
The speed at which (especially Chinese) robots are developing is absolutely insane.”” https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2023388741595799687
The supersonic tsunami of AI and robotics is upon us.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2023534428245684417
TRON 2 by LimX Dynamics features a cleaver design that can take three different forms: bipedal, wheeled, or a dual-arm bot. Two modular units can be combined to make a humanoid or a quadruped. Three units can be combined into a centaur.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2023281142619906215
Unitree humanoid robots rocked the Spring Festival Gala in Beijing today with a dynamic routine of parkour, Drunken Fist, and nunchaku to celebrate Chinese New Year!”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2023428892934160775
We’ve moved from the stage “”everything in China is a Potemkin village”” to “”oh fuck, ugh, maybe a few outlier companies are the real deal but the rest is fake”” I regret to inform you, it’s entire sectors of the economy where very little is fake. They’re just that good in robotics.”” https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/2023518524451549598
What stands out most is that it’s happening live on stage with multiple robots; not a cherry-picked demo, no tricky edits. Impressive robustness in whole-body coordination.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2023438703990055125
While Unitree sells a lot of dumb humanoid robots to developers and researchers, they’re also working on their own AI models. Robots making robots: Unitree’s UnifoLM-X1-0 AI model in action, performing assembly tasks in Unitree’s own factory.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2022413189191995700
Whole-body control framework that reduces end-to-end latency of teleoperation to 50 ms. [📍it’s open source] Teleoperating a humanoid usually feels like driving through lag. This brings it close to real-time. A new control framework called ExtremControl cuts latency to about 50″” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2023406890005254451
X-Humanoid (Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics) has officially launched Embodied Tien Kung 3.0, a general-purpose humanoid platform designed to lower technical barriers for developers and researchers. – The company claims it is the first full-size humanoid to”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2024080494368006345
Will the robotics industry will be generating trillions of dollars of revenue?””, “”YES.”” Dario Amodei says breakthroughs in robotics could emerge in several ways, such as through continual learning or generalization. Once achieved, these models will revolutionize both robot”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2022409229223780533
Figure’s 7th-gen humanoid hand, higher degrees of freedom than the previous gen. Features spreading fingers apart (abduction) and bringing them together (adduction). The rotating thumb is able to touch the tips of each finger, which is an important range of motion for pinching”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2022379295453409771
I’ve been waiting 3 years to show you this We just launched our 3rd-gen humanoid, but we’re already on our 7th-gen hand Our team has quietly worked for years to approach parity with a human hand Excited to share a sneak peek of some of the best engineering I’ve ever seen”” https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2022353637964751221
An open-source bipedal robotic system. [📍GitHub Repo] It’s a complete leg design with 6 DOF per leg, RSU ankle architecture, passive toe joints. Built with off-the-shelf components and compatible with MJF 3D printing. What they’re open-sourcing & sharing: – Full mechanical”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2022233309716123878
MotionCrafter: Dense Geometry and Motion Reconstruction with a 4D VAE TL;DR: a video diffusion-based model that jointly reconstructs dense 3D geometry and scene motion from monocular video in a unified 4D latent space.”” https://x.com/Almorgand/status/2023815479534723172
4RC: 4D Reconstruction via Conditional Querying Anytime and Anywhere TL;DR: unified feed-forward 4D scene model that encodes video once and queries dense geometry + motion for any frame at any time.”” https://x.com/Almorgand/status/2022326664747954422
Leave a Reply