Image created with gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview with claude-sonnet-4-5. Image prompt: Wide-angle aerial photograph of a chrome humanoid robot freefalling through bright blue sky at high altitude, arms spread in joyful triumph, LED face display showing happy emoticon, polished metallic body reflecting sunlight, distant ground far below, bold clean title typography reading ROBOTS integrated into composition like magazine cover, crisp daylight, dynamic action photography, simple clean composition.

Eric Schmidt: “Robots will be a labor force that needs no rest. Robots will automate entire supply chains and perform physical tasks that humans cannot do.” “In 2025, China accounted for over 80% of global humanoid robot installations and over half of the world’s industrial”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2029299054719783186

Part²GS: Part-aware Modeling of Articulated Objects using 3D Gaussian Splatting”” TL;DR: introduces a part-aware Gaussian splatting representation with physics-guided motion constraints to model articulated digital twins with high fidelity and coherent part movement.”” https://x.com/Almorgand/status/2027087525328658750

9 amazing advancements in robotics ▪️ AEON – the first humanoid robot at BMW plant ▪️ EgoScale human-to-robot dexterity learning framework ▪️ The Physical Intelligence Layer (like API, but for physical action) ▪️ SimToolReal ▪️ Gemini 3 Flash and VLA teach a robot to play a”” https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2028082165498654978

A highly affordable, fully 3D-printed robotic arm. [📍 open source] Features: > Fully 3D printed design > 7+1 DOF > or physical AI research & imitation learning Zero custom hardware needed, just print and add your servo kit! > URDF files > STEP & STL files >”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2027306785757966368

An AGI Benchmark: Humanoid robots capable of putting on and taking off their clothes, gloves, and shoes.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2028549924003209337

BMW is launching a pilot at Plant Leipzig in Germany to deploy “”humanoid”” robots in European production for the first time. The project focuses on using Hexagon’s “”AEON”” robot for battery and component assembly.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2027414615010033833

Building the operating system for physical reality”” https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2027053344292778385

CoRL is coming to Austin, TX this November! As General Chair, I’m thrilled to welcome the robot learning community. 2026 feels like a pivotal year as AI-powered robotic systems begin deploying at scale for real-world tasks. This year, I hope CoRL will be the forum that connects”” https://x.com/yukez/status/2027177754177728660

Generalist whole-body teleoperation for EVERYONE! Now open-source 🔥 Comprehensive pipelines for whole-body control, kinematic planner, and teleoperation: SONIC. And they will all be shared❗️ There will be a continuous update; inference code + model already there, training”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2027669118573244917

If you are into robotics and not following @lukas_m_ziegler already… no one can help you! Absolutely Masterclass!”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2027421485489410249

MacBook Neo!”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2029276352969621808

OmniXtreme is a scalable framework that solves the ‘generality barrier’ in humanoids, keeping motion tracking precise even as skill libraries expand. Two-step method: – Flow-matching pretraining to aggregate skills from specialist policies – Actuation-aware post-training to”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2028520139948519910

Print in 3D space. That is a fascinating look at non-planar 3D printing, specifically using a 6-axis motion system. Instead of the traditional “”layer-by-layer”” approach where the printer head only moves on a flat 2D plane X and Y before stepping up Z, this machine uses robotic”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2028184275917369725

Reward models often break the moment you change the robot, task, or scene. Robometer tackles this head-on. It’s a 4B video-language reward model trained on 1M+ trajectories across 21 robot embodiments, from humanoids to tabletop manipulators. Instead of learning only from”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2029118700314411059

Robotic arms winding coils for motor manufacturing. Have you ever watched a robotic arm wind a coil? It’s one of those processes most people never think about, but it’s at the heart of every electric motor on the planet. Coil winding is repetitive, precise, and unforgiving. A”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2028546675942318298

Robots can now reconstruct 3D scenes in real time from a single RGB camera. [📍 Projects page + paper] No depth sensor. No retraining. 30 FPS. Researchers at the Imperial College London introduced KV-Tracker, a training-free method that makes heavy models like π³ and Depth”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2027821872721559946

Rodney Brooks believes that humanoids stepping in to perform at a human level within decades is ‘pure fantasy thinking.’ Fortune’s editor really did a number on him with a loaded intro right in the headline.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2027134865242767756

Smartphone maker Honor has unveiled its first humanoid robot, which bears a striking resemblance to the Unitree G1. No official word yet, but it is highly likely they contracted Unitree for the design and manufacturing.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2028532529192706223

The full-body build for Asimov is coming together.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2027206191202566431

The world’s smallest industrial robot arm Built for sub-micrometer precision. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how to control what is likely the world’s smallest and most precise industrial robot arm using custom software. The stack includes online and offline programming”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2027459505739509818

This is Azimov v1. And this will be open source The whole body of a humanoid robot with simulation files and a list of actuators Now only leg design Azimov v0 is open”” https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2028044474312466849

This is real time. You can see how stable the motion is. A system placing droplets between 1 nanoliter and 1 microliter inside a 96 well plate with almost perfect repeatability. No shake. No drift. No overshoot. The robot keeps the tip on track even at this scale where tiny”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2028031539846553891

This. Is. Open. Source.”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2027750401437573498

Today, we publicly released RoboCasa365, a large-scale simulation benchmark for training and systematically evaluating generalist robot models. Built upon our original RoboCasa framework, it offers: • 2,500 realistic kitchen environments; • 365 everyday tasks (basic skills +”” https://x.com/yukez/status/2028546069500699075

UCR is now Noble Machines! The Sunnyvale, CA-based company builds general-purpose industrial robots for hazardous and physically demanding tasks. Designed for stairs, scaffolding, cluttered spaces and unstable terrain, the humanoid features a 27kg payload, 5-hour battery life”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2028880208003252332

Xpeng will break ground on a 110,000sqm humanoid robot factory in Guangzhou this quarter. The IRON humanoid will feature Xpeng’s in-house developed AI chips and solid-state batteries. The company targets the start of deliveries by the end of 2026.”” https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2027136260880691419

OpenClaw on a Unitree G1 humanoid 🤯 A MIT dropout developed an open-source robotics platform that supports 80% of Chinese OEM robots! This OpenClaw upgrade to process physical space and time via integrations with LiDAR, stereo, or RGB cameras. It enables robots like the”” https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2028756316999573751

Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI and probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form”” https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2029123591871308272?s=20

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