Robotics Embodiment: AI News Week Ending 06/05/2026

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Introducing the Cosmos Coalition A new global initiative with NVIDIA and leading AI labs to build and open-source frontier world models for physical AI. Runway joins as a founding member, working alongside NVIDIA and a set of leading AI labs to build, share and accelerate world
https://x.com/runwayml/status/2061315089869721682

Jensen just launched NVIDIA Cosmos 3. Pitched as the first fully open omnimodel for physical AI: a mixture-of-transformers (reasoning + generation) with native vision reasoning and generation across text, image, video, sound, and action. Tops open-model leaderboards on
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2061333253920080345

NVIDIA Launches Cosmos 3, the Open Frontier Foundation Model for Physical AI | NVIDIA Newsroom
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-cosmos-3-the-open-frontier-foundation-model-for-physical-ai

All signs point to OpenAI building humanoid robots.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2061322294426038393

OpenAI Robotics is hiring, looking for exceptional full-stack hardware, ops, systems, and ML engineers to help us program and manufacture robots that are useful for society. AI should be able to help people in the physical world. In the short term, we are focused on robots to
https://x.com/sama/status/2061117302528188712

SoftBank is in early talks to back a ~$800M (€700M) funding round for Munich-based Agile Robots, per Bloomberg. – SoftBank would write more than $300M of the round, sources told Bloomberg, though the talks are early and amounts and terms could still shift. – Agile Robots,
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2061864624006574580

Today, we’re launching shift. We’re starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free. Here’s how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing. In exchange, we record
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“one task”
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Figure parking lot on Monday
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2060498959370735810

fwiw I’ve never sold any of my figure stock and did not participate in the employee tender 💎 🙌
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2060675840581480506

Just crossed 500,000 followers Four years ago I wasn’t posting online. Most of this audience has been built over the last couple of years, and building my companies in public has been incredibly valuable I originally started posting to help with hiring, but it’s created many
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Today, we’re announcing the completion of a $100 million employee tender at Figure To solve general robotics, we need the best engineers on the planet and as a private company I’m glad to be providing liquidity along our journey
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2060431765572096052

.@NVIDIA’s Cosmos 3 launched today… and guess who had early access? Agile Robots SE! They’ve been running it across their full portfolio: Thor single- and dual-arm, FR3 Duo. Focus? Simulation. Using Cosmos 3 as a neural simulator; a learned world model that generates
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2061512207738012093

1/ NVIDIA just open-sourced Cosmos 3 at GTC Taipei! It’s the first fully open “”omnimodel”” for physical AI – one model that understands the real world, predicts what happens next, and generates the actions a robot should take. Weights, code, datasets. All open. And this is
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Breaking news: Cosmos 3 is here. They are attempting to do something completely new 🤯 Why is Physical AI much harder than building a chatbot? Understanding the world is not enough, robots need to predict it and act inside it. That’s the idea behind NVIDIA Cosmos 3: →
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2061308942186414136

In case you missed this: NVIDIA shipped a text-to-image open weights model that looks seriously competitive 👀 (as part of its Cosmos 3 release)
https://x.com/victormustar/status/2061354267546427595?s=20

NVIDIA’s Cosmos 3 is what we’ve never seen before ‒ an Omnimodal World Model. It’s closing the loop for physical AI. All stack in one system: world and multimodal understanding, future generation, reasoning and action This is the next step in Jensen Huang’s AI progression:
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2061474876083274238

NVIDIA’s Cosmos 3 lands at #1 among open weights models in both Text to Image and Image to Video on the Artificial Analysis Leaderboards! Cosmos 3 is a family of omnimodal world models for Physical AI from @nvidia, unifying language, image, video, audio and action in a single
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2061494719998546206

„David, maybe you want to come to the point.” Everyone laughed… A moderator just told the CEO of one of Europe’s most ambitious robotics companies to stop talking and get to the point. But David Reger’s answer exposed the single biggest bottleneck in Physical AI:
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2061371165608653154

100 humanoid robot giveaway. LUMOS Robotics has launched Project EDGE. Selected academic and robotics developer partners get: – Complimentary LUMOS NIX humanoid with onboard Rockchip RK3588 processor – Full-stack open C++ and Python SDK – Tech support
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2061462778091868170

243 approved. 200+ more trying to get in. So we made the evening worth it: We added one more voice to the stage: → @JoshMerel | CTO, @faunarobotics (now @Amazon) Fauna launched Sprout in January. By March, Amazon had acquired them. Josh will be on stage June 4th. From
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A policy that teaches robot hands to touch things the way humans do… not just grab and move, but feel and adjust in real time. Robot manipulation research often stops at picking up objects and placing them. CGP goes further: it handles tasks like opening jars, flipping
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2061074224458993923

Crisscross applesauce Enlightenment dot exe Namaste, bitches
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2059787937588588565

DR02 humanoid from DEEP Robotics. Showing off upgraded payload capacity and dynamic locomotion.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2062238329220030801

Eastworlds, a Malaysia-based robotics lab, is building infrastructure to compress the iteration cycle for developers. The full stack includes a hardware fleet of 30+ humanoid robots, comprehensive robotics deployment support, and teleop data procurement.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2060044912360566907

EDEN-1 A bimanual bot you can get for effectively $10/hour.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2060417919558070405

Flex 2 hand by Hangzhou-based Xynova. – Hybrid-drive system that combines cable-driven tendons with direct-drive actuation – 23-DOF bionic hand, weighs 400 g, 2 fist closures per second – 0.05 N force-control accuracy, back-drivable
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2061867770040684627

Generalist – Accelerating the next phase of physical AI
https://generalistai.com/blog/accelerating-the-next-phase-of-physical-ai

In 2024, I spent well over a year looking for a US actuator manufacturer, and was considering going full time on this opportunity. Tackling the key bottleneck of any physically actuated device is both critical and an enormous opportunity in the physical AI future. Then we met
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In The Electric Slide, I mentioned that I’d invested in a stealth motor company. Today, Westmag is out of stealth, and I went deep on why America needs a motor and actuator company to build great products, and how Westmag plans to build the big one.
https://x.com/packyM/status/2061835223470330100

Me: ‘Get me a beer’ Robots:
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Ouch, hope that kid is ok!! Operator is at fault here, but every robot operated around people needs an active safety layer too. Like Automatic Emergency Braking and lane-keep assist in cars: perceptive intelligence that can override the operator’s commands for safety.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2062217859045216486

Robot dogs will help with World Cup security – Axios Dallas
https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2026/06/03/robot-dogs-world-cup-security-dallas

Robotics companies: let us solve repetitive tasks like folding shirts. Meanwhile, the factory floor:
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Startup founders and top leadership who bypass traditional gatekeepers and PR agencies have a major advantage. “”Marketing is too important to be left to the marketing department.”” – David Packard
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The humanoid revolution is moving fast. Subscribe for curated weekly updates. Next issue drops tomorrow.
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The uncomfortable truth that most are not willing to accept: Your technology is world-class. Your commercial velocity is not. European robotics companies build the most robust, safety-conscious robots on the planet. But they take 2-3x longer to hit the revenue milestones that
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Tomorrow night. 310 approved. 380 still trying to get in. That number tells you something about where New York is right now… and where this industry is going. From Prototype to Production: The Reality of Deploying Robotics and Embodied AI. On stage: → @evanbeard | CEO,
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Westmag is building American robot actuators and drone motors at scale. In 2025, @westmagco raised $11M led by @a16z, with participation from @FoundersFund, @LuxCapital, NFDG, @MenloVentures, and other top investors. Since then, we’ve been building industrial capacity, crawling
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What I imagine Humanoids that humanoids doing I can buy for us today
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2061568582828617796

A month later, I’m still thinking about that day in Augsburg. We co-hosted the KUKA × @VisComp1 Simulation Event… and honestly, it was one of those events where you leave with your head full. The room was packed with customers, partners, and simulation engineers from across
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A system that automatically creates thousands of varied humanoid loco-manipulation demonstrations from one single teleoperated example: How? Via interleaved locomotion planning, manipulation planning, and skill adaptation. It features a new nine-task humanoid
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2060637097120215196

AGIBOT has unveiled AGILE (AgiBot Generative Intelligent Locomotion Engine), a perception-control foundation model for whole-body humanoid locomotion. – It fuses visual perception, balance, and motion planning end-to-end, replacing the traditional split between “”seeing”” and
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2060411921451680114

Featurising Pixels from Dynamic 3D Scenes with Linear In-Context Learners”” TL;DR: learns temporally consistent pixel-level representations from videos using linear in-context supervision from depth and motion cues
https://x.com/Almorgand/status/2060386938612232547

Helix4D: Complex 4D Mesh Generation”” TL;DR: generates temporally consistent 4D meshes under extreme topology changes like melting, shattering, and transparency using flow matching and temporal attention chains
https://x.com/Almorgand/status/2060031819471348115

Hey! A new vision encoder for robotics is in town 👀🤖 Instead of using models trained on static images (CLIP, SigLIP, DINO), we bake the dynamics-awareness directly into perception. It transfers well everywhere and boosts real-world OOD success by +22.5% Check it out👇
https://x.com/jbhuang0604/status/2061840469966090308

Larus went ham with this one! Love the synced highlighting on the camera path, something I wanted to try myself. Makes me think these could end up as spatial reasoning benchmarks for ai video models, esp in cities with existing 3d data as ground truth.
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2060373038982459741

Most robot vision systems take weeks to set up… or you do it in 6 minutes. Not 6 days. Not 6 hours. 6 minutes… data recording + model training included. I’ve been working closely with the team at Lentil Robotics, and what they’ve built is genuinely different from anything
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2061862045541109967

Noble Machines’ Moby robot hauling a 50 lb crate. The whole-body control (WBC) is the physical foundation of the learning stack. It absorbs payload variation, contact response, and center-of-mass shifts in real time at the control layer and enabled cleaner data-focused learning
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2059859238462353733

Reality: The Final Eval — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
https://www.latent.space/p/andon

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/2059906536240013690

THE LiDAR odometry package your robot needs. Most localization stacks assume the environment will cooperate. Distinct geometry. Clear point cloud differentiation. That assumption fails the moment you deploy in a warehouse, hospital, or industrial facility. GenZ-ICP is built to
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2060783800788160674

Triangle Splatting SLAM”” TL;DR: the first dense RGB-D SLAM system built on differentiable triangle splatting, enabling real-time tracking, mesh reconstruction, collision checking, and scene editing from a unified representation.
https://x.com/Almorgand/status/2061839159438835881

We treat 3d scanning like a tech demo, but it’s actually spatial memory capture. Damn near teleportation. A few hundred photos of my parent’s old home, and now it’s immortalized forever. 3d gaussian splat made w/ reality capture + litchfeld.
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2061134940813611505

When Does LeJEPA Learn a World Model? It’s a new paper from @ylecun together with @klindt_david and @randall_balestr, that brings LeJEPA theory closer to the real goal of JEPA-style models. → LeJEPA learns a World Model when • The world’s latent variables are Gaussian •
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2060153308392857933

A practical step forward for real-world manipulation: an open-source world model that replaces rigid action chunking with event-grounded prediction. It anchors planning and control to actual physical moments (reach → grasp → contact → place), giving robots more natural
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2060422419479974312

The first open-source unified world model for scalable robot manipulation: 5B-parameter open-source unified video-action world model that combines policy and world modeling to generate robot actions, predict future visuals, and evaluate task progress from observations, language,
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2061870964519076312

China rolled out a national digital ID system for humanoid robots in late May. The stated rationale is liability and traceability. – Mandatory 29-digit code assigned to each humanoid: 2-digit country, 4-digit manufacturer, 6-digit product model, 17-digit serial – Tracks the
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Jensen served up premium AI slop to declare the future is humanoid.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2061320653014548738

ABILITY Neurotech Receives IMDD Approval to Start Clinical Trial for Chronic Implantation of Brain-Computer Interface in ALS Patients
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ability-neurotech-receives-imdd-approval-to-start-clinical-trial-for-chronic-implantation-of-brain-computer-interface-in-als-patients-302781809.html

Clinical trial seeks to advance intuitive assistive robotics for people with paralysis | Rice News | News and Media Relations | Rice University
https://news.rice.edu/news/2026/clinical-trial-seeks-advance-intuitive-assistive-robotics-people-paralysis