Image created with Gemini. Image prompt: Vintage book-jacket illustration of a boxy tin humanoid robot dressed as an Edwardian Dubliner with a flat cap and round wire spectacles, sitting on a wooden tram bench holding a small bar of lemon-yellow soap, a slate-gray Dublin street blurring past the tram window behind it, bold serif title ROBOTS letterpressed across the top on cream paper with visible grain, flat inked colors in Shakespeare-blue, cream, lemon yellow and Dublin slate with a warm brick accent, landscape 16:9, soft overcast June daylight, wry literary tone.
[2606.17030] Qwen-RobotWorld Technical Report: Unifying Embodied World Modeling through Language-Conditioned Video Generation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17030
📣 Introducing the Qwen-Robot Suite — Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, Qwen-RobotWorld, three foundation models, a full stack for embodied intelligence. 🧭 Qwen-RobotNav — the gateway to mobility. • Unifies 5 navigation tasks in one model: instruction following, point-goal,
https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2066870197122899980
Cool to see Parkway Venture Capital listed in the top 20 U.S. venture firms I’ve known the co-founders for a long time and would strongly encourage founders to reach out to them
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2067359726485360959
Walking Down Stairs
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2066181478904705357
Today, we enable AutoResearch in the physical world for the first time! Introducing ENPIRE: we give 8 Codex agents a fleet of robots, an allocation of GPUs, and generous token budget. We set them free with a simple goal: solve the task as quickly as possible, keep the robots busy
https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/2066921736369766762
Another fantastic day in Shenzhen yesterday! Chatted with Jianan Wang, VP at @Astribot_Inc, who’s leading their embodied AI model development. Visited EngineAI’s exhibition hall where their Terminator-style robots showed off powerful moves. Wrapped up by connecting with
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2067094397544730700
Dismantling the barriers to scale physical AI. – SiMa AI
https://sima.ai/webinar/dismantling-the-barriers-to-scale-physical-ai/
Emerged from stealth in July 2025… $105 million seed round. This is their first general-purpose robot: (Sound on if you can!) Their first general-purpose robot, rejecting traditional humanoid aesthetics in favor of a practical wheeled design that emphasizes capable
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2066944703287742667
Faster, cheaper robot deployment in factories? A post-training framework for diffusion policies that uses self-rollouts and physical constraints to achieve safety alignment in robotics without extra demos, rewards, or human interventions… The ICML 2026 Spotlight paper from
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Finally putting a face to the name at RoboHub! Say hi to Alex, who is showing @dolylupec and me around on our China trip.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2067063133324398914
Geometric Action Model for Robot Policy Learning Repurposes a geometric foundation model as one backbone for perception, prediction, and action. 1.4B parameters. 6.9 ms inference. 85.5% on LIBERO-Plus. 55× faster than baselines.
https://x.com/HuggingPapers/status/2066880944070385783
Humanoid robots don’t need to look human. Meet Eno, our first general-purpose robot. Not a machine pretending to be human, but intelligence given a body. At Genesis, we’re building a future where robots don’t feel cold or distant, but capable, calm, and ready to help.
https://x.com/gs_ai_/status/2066869851659121128
I’ll be on the ground in China for the next 17 days to get a firsthand look at the industrial explosion in humanoid robotics. The plan is to visit Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing. If you’re building humanoids or embodied AI and would like to meet,
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2064976029731701163
If you’ve been in robotics for 5+ years, what’s the problem that never gets easier? Deployment answers only.
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2066067124716552383
Introducing /automate, a skill for agents to set up automations for you. Describe your task in plain language. Cursor configures the triggers, instructions, and tools.
https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2067683814516858962
MIT Press published a robotics textbook. Then put it on GitHub for FREE. 📌 “”Introduction to Autonomous Robots”” covers everything: kinematics, sensors, actuators, motion planning, localization, computer vision, and neural networks… from mechanisms all the way to algorithms.
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2065342342987501577
Some amazing meetings and conversations in Hong Kong ✅ Next stop: Shenzhen! @broodsugar @RAYBEAZY @Apheth_DAlmeida @Linyan_Fu @homebrewrobots @Auki
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2066034565831926005
The lab that built ANYmal teaches a free ROS2 course… ETH Zurich’s Robotic Systems Lab runs a full introductory course on ROS2 every year: Slides and lecture recordings from previous years are publicly available on YouTube and GitHub. The curriculum is practical from day one:
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2065132714869539213
The man who invented RRT put his entire textbook ONLINE FOR FREE. If a robot moves from A to B without hitting anything, there’s a good chance it’s using an algorithm Steve LaValle created. The Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree (RRT) is inside autonomous vehicles, robotic arms,
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2065495103934755012
This low-cost exoskeleton could make robot training 10x faster: A low-cost exoskeleton that provides real-time haptic torque feedback, allowing a human teleoperator to feel and control a robot’s forces during complex manipulation tasks while capturing data for autonomous
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2067154295959515150
Tuo has built an incredible community for robotics founders. The energy in Shenzhen is absolutely real; it’s a magnet for builders. Thanks @Robo_Tuo for the tour and for hosting a great event! Shenzhen has an insanely dense robotics ecosystem. – It transformed from a small
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2066678799346143524
While a lot of the robotics spotlight goes to flashy full humanoids and massive funding rounds, one of the quieter but more interesting stories is playing out in Brooklyn. @KyberLabsRobots, founded in 2022, is building a robotic manipulation platform designed specifically for
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2067307034618261635
Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute runs a course on robot learning… (For FREE 📌) 16-831 covers the full modern stack… the stuff actually being deployed right now: Imitation learning. Behavior cloning. Reinforcement learning. Learning from human videos. Sim-to-real
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2065857490202357775
ETH has semester-long courses. Stanford? Lecture halls. MIT 826-page textbooks. 📌 Hugging Face’s robotics? 10 minutes… >pip install lerobot That’s it. This command gets you started: Classical foundations. Imitation learning. Reinforcement learning. Foundation models. Real
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2065726497902490107
One professor at the University of Bonn quietly put his entire robotics curriculum on YouTube: SLAM. Sensor fusion. State estimation. Probabilistic robotics. Self-driving cars. Motion planning. Photogrammetry. Cyrill Stachniss has been uploading full university lectures for
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2064979957009285375
The University of Michigan put their entire robotics degree on GitHub. Not one course. The whole curriculum. ROB 101 — Computational Linear Algebra for Robotics ROB 311 — How to Build Robots and Make Them Move ROB 501 — Mathematics for Robotics ROB 530 — Mobile Robotics Every
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2066219876302098929
A lot of engineering goes into making autonomy look simple Here’s a 2 hour timelapse of F.03 repeatedly walking up and down stairs. Figure HQ is full of tests like this, each one helping push robots closer to fully autonomous systems
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2065501115744182673
At some point we’ll manufacture humanoid robots at cell phone volumes. We are tiny today
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2065088883159916658
What a great guest at @RobotTalkPod! Thanks for this, @claireasher!!
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2067281311459422544
A robotics world model predicting 3D motion traces of semantic points instead of pixels or latents. Semantic points? Like objects, hands, and contacts! The approach uses video-only pretraining via TraceExtract on human videos to build an interpretable “physical language” that
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2066582302952448302
By treating natural language as a universal action interface，Qwen-RobotWorld bridges the gap between general video generation models and domain-specific embodied models — this converts end-effector poses, steering commands, and navigation waypoints into a single interface,
https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2066870210716647591
I made Physical AutoResearch sound simple (conceptually), but it took a village to pull off and lots of design thinking into the robot /loopcraft. The hardest part is everything we need to setup *before* pressing Enter. Here’s a behind-the-scene tour: 1. Safety harness Letting
https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/2067283904986517866
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