Image created with Gemini. Image prompt: Hand-painted Studio Ghibli style square cover of a rounded tin robot in a sunlit European seaside town square, gently lifting a smiling rose-cheeked porcelain mask from its face to reveal delicate brass gears and a soft amber lens beneath, a wooden shop sign overhead painted with the bold clean word ‘Robots’, warm terracotta rooftops and teal harbor behind, soft gouache watercolor backgrounds, golden-hour light, cozy and quietly mysterious mood.
Hark is building the next generation of computer-use agents Our goal is simple: use any computer as well as a human. Think of it as a digital humanoid that can navigate the entire internet We’re hiring – consider joining the CUA team with Tanmay”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2070674685575209066
A humanoid robot autonomously executes a full long-horizon task, from ONE natural language command… for the first time. It goes downstairs to get a snack package, rides the elevator upstairs, opens the box, and puts the snacks into a drawer. The platform integrates”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2071652920135921913
Today, we’re introducing SimFoundry, our real2sim2real framework at NVIDIA GEAR that automatically turns real-world scenes into simulation-ready worlds from a single image or video. Website:
https://t.co/Iw38VtarSA Paper:
https://t.co/GcDYAUfVwP This work marks a major step for”
https://x.com/yukez/status/2072697990402170906
LeWorld model becomes ADAPTIVE and meets MODEL-PREDICTIVE CONTROL AdaJEPA by Yann LeCun and colleagues performs actions, then checks the predicted latent state versus the observed and adapts at TEST TIME. Similar to meta-learning … Paper:
https://x.com/gklambauer/status/2072213633640075366
Is this the first published demonstration of end-to-end, vision-based RL on production VLAs, trained on real bimanual humanoid hardware under true deployment conditions? What if robots could get better at their jobs the same way humans do? By practising and learning from their”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2070778407835541913
Excited to see F.03 humanoid robot at BMW in Spartanburg, more to come next week”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2070180603493052750
F.03 has arrived at BMW”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2071973507702153292
The Figure-BMW partnership is expanding to Figure 03. BMW is deploying Figure AI’s new Figure 03 humanoids at its Spartanburg plant, moving from a body-shop pilot to a logistics sequencing task: picking unsorted parts from containers and sorting them into a “just-in-sequence
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2072005282901938192
From Brain Waves to Words: Brain2Qwerty Offers a New Path to Communication Without Surgery
https://ai.meta.com/blog/brain2qwerty-brain-ai-human-communication/
Meta says Brain2Qwerty v2 can decode natural sentences from non-invasive brain recordings in real time, reaching 61% word accuracy. The system was trained on about 22,000 sentences from 9 volunteers, each recorded for 10 hours with MEG while typing. Meta compares that with 8%”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2071712776226283902
some exciting new work from our AI teams at Meta on non-invasive brain computer interfaces!”
https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/2071617674946179264
Today, we give robots a /skills library that self-evolves and compounds indefinitely! Introducing ASPIRE: a robot solving its 100th task is no longer as clueless as solving its first. Coding agents observe multimodal sensory traces from simulation and real robots, launch an”
https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/2072004190856212902
Most evaluations of world models ask, “Does this look right?” 🌎 We built WorldModelGym to ask a different question: if an agent actually uses this model to make decisions, does it still choose well? 🏋️🏃♂️🏁🦾 A simulation can look physically plausible and still lead an agent”
https://x.com/RekaAILabs/status/2072325792558956573
Most world models predict what happens next. Sora predicts pixels, JEPA compresses observations. NEO tries to figure out why something happened instead. Example: show it a shape moving left then down, and instead of just reconstructing that motion, it learns “left” and “down
https://x.com/LiorOnAI/status/2072380547603829224
🎮🕹️🖥️ CS2-10k is now available on @huggingface 🚀 600,000+ egocentric gameplay videos. 10,000+ hours. Every frame paired with the exact keyboard, mouse, and 3D position data that produced it. If you’re working on world models, action-conditioned video generation, or egocentric”
https://x.com/RekaAILabs/status/2071970771233038475
A true survey highlight: World Action Models: A Survey by @NUSingapore World Action Models (WAMs) are embodied systems that connect future prediction directly to action. → WAMs unify Vision-Language-Action policies with predictive world models. This survey covers: WAM”
https://x.com/TheTuringPost/status/2070790639021920356
This model helps robots learn tricky moves and tasks much faster and better. How? By turning their actions into a short, smart code! 📌 { Open-source code, arXiv paper, and project page } Ahad J. introduces Neural Action Codec (NAC), which models robot actions as audio”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2072380212793278517
This week, during Davos Tech Summit you can see a robotic startup that is tackling Europe’s old infrastructure… Critical infrastructure. From old hydro networks to the world’s shipyards. 60% of it hasn’t been touched in 40 years!!! No way this will not be done by robots! I’ve”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2072742852166381588
Just closed $11M from @firstround Capital… @proceptionAI! The same day Tesla dropped its trade secret lawsuit against them. I caught up with CEO @JayLiStanford in Palo Alto earlier this year: Backstory: Jay led hand engineering on Tesla’s Optimus. He left, started”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2072018076845867507
That’s serious speed. Aren’t these guys only like 2 years old? Feels like @personaaiinc popped up out of nowhere and already pushed through multiple humanoid generations, big early funding, and actual industrial partnerships. Not saying they’re there yet, but the pace is kind”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2070205885247549661
ENPIRE -> ASPIRE, our 2nd work in the series for Physical AutoResearch. We are building the components for robot self-improvement, one /skill at a time.”
https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/2072337488782475390
SimFoundry — Real2Sim2Real
https://research.nvidia.com/labs/gear/simfoundry/
You don’t need expensive hardware to build something that feels like real robotics. An Arduino, a servo, and an ultrasonic sensor can scan space and turn echoes into a simple radar view. It sweeps, measures distance, and visualizes it in real time. Cheap, simple, and a solid”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2071502956336222379
[2606.28276] SimFoundry: Modular and Automated Scene Generation for Policy Learning and Evaluation
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28276
I’ll be in Munich today for EUROPE EMBODIED by @esra_robotics – European Student Robotics Association 🦾 Let’s show everyone what Europe is still capable of! We have a strong research foundation, but is building happening elsewhere? WRONG. Last year, the team around”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2070416019768656127
The Zhejiang University campus is beautiful! Thanks @thalevinod for the tour. @dolylupec”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2070373306981585366
Weave Robotics has opened pre-orders for Isaac 1, a home robot built from the ground up in San Francisco. – A wheeled humanoid with a collapsible torso that extends to 5’9″ then folds away when idle – Weave built its own actuators and safety systems Current chores: – Laundry”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2072559106825789619
Sadly we will need to dismantle most of the F.02 robots…may do something epic”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2070333239085191583
We are early here, I suspect this will 10x within a year or two”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2071072826455691773
We’re on generation 7 of our hand design, they’re so hard! Our latest design is so human-like it looks like a person wearing a glove”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2071811006515536109
Walking through Figure’s campus feels like stepping into I, Robot the movie – humanoid robots everywhere”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2070888298885824580
Tour video of our visit to LimX Dynamics (@LimX_Dynamics) in Shenzhen. We saw some impressive demos of Oli and Tron and had a conversation with Paul Li, Head of R&D. We discuss LimX’s tech stack and the fundamental engineering challenges with humanoids. Paul has refreshingly”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2071957152043044963
Chinese makers have scaled to thousands of affordable humanoid units, but it’s worth noting those are humanoid bodies. Half-decent 5-finger hands with human-like DoF still run $25k to $50k each, and maintenance is quite high. A robot that ships with a well-integrated, reliable”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2072742243287634098
Davos becomes Europe’s first Robot City. Starting today, the Davos Tech Summit turns the entire town into a live testing ground for physical AI: Humanoids, quadrupeds, drones, and other systems working in real-world settings across the city, not on a stage. Speakers include”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2072605376680280366
Do you think that the auto supply chain and robotics supply chain merger could be a chance for Europe? I mean, we are still strong in quality, precision and complex system integration, right? We do need much faster collaboration between auto suppliers, robotics startups and”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2071293306789667208
During the AGIBOT tour in Shanghai, we saw an autonomous demo in a controlled setting. The next day, AGIBOT started a 100-hour live stream of the same task on the actual assembly line. Multiple G2 robots are autonomously operating in real tablet production. Today is the day-5″
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2070677503770005631
Had a great tour at X-Humanoid in Beijing’s E-Town today. Along with some cool robots and live demos, we got a behind-the-scenes look at their data collection center, where over 150 robots are gathering data.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2070489791418810709
If you are interested in robotics, and you don’t follow and watch @TheHumanoidHub for his robotics insights (here in China)… no one can help you.”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2072341681412641141
That’s a wrap on an amazing 17-day journey across China. I didn’t do this alone. My friend @dolylupec came along for the whole ride. She’s got a background in AI and robotics investing, and I’m grateful she chronicled the tours on her account and pitched in on my channel.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2070873092877091078
The OneRobotics tour was so much fun. The Shenzhen-based company makes cleaning and companion robots for the home, plus a surprisingly fun tennis-playing robot. Their newest is robot Onero, an affordable humanoid, and they build the embodied AI models for all the robots. The”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2072553164080115844
This is the first time I’ve seen a clear blue sky since arriving in China 15 days ago. Beijing is quite nice and it’s bustling!”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2070012061971533825
Tomorrow, Davos becomes Europe’s first Robot City. Starting July 1st, the Davos Tech Summit turns the entire town into a live testing ground for physical AI: Humanoids, quadrupeds, drones, and other systems working in real-world settings across the city, not on a stage.”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2071865319782805889
Visited DexForce (@DexForceAI) office in Shenzhen on their 5th anniversary and saw some cool autonomous demos. CMO Chris joined us for a short chat about their manipulation-first approach and the deployments they’ve done so far. Thanks to @dolylupec for the camera work.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2071596919995121766
We visited Astribot (@Astribot_Inc) in Shenzhen, experienced their near-zero-latency teleop, and had a lively chat with Jianan Wang (AI researcher & VP) about their foundation model research and roadmap. Thanks @dolylupec for joining and pitching in!”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2071658106615197805
We visited Paxini in Shenzhen, a company focused on the sense of touch for robots. We got hands-on with their dual-modal Dexter Hands (cameras + tactile sensors) and their Tora Double One humanoid. Humanoid robots will need this touch layer to get truly dexterous. @dolylupec”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2072338013770924468
Everything Lars Moravy, Tesla’s VP of Engineering, said about Optimus in the latest interview on Herbert’s channel: On the transition of Fremont’s Model S/X lines to Optimus: – Space has been cleared out – Our first line has landed (in Fremont) from our automation groups in the”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2072297648246456393
Moneyball for Physical AI – by Animesh Garg
https://praxiscurrents.substack.com/p/moneyball-for-physical-ai
A lot of automation projects break the moment the environment stops being clean and predictable… mixed metal parts, reflective surfaces, different shapes and difficulty levels, and more: New objects, and even hanging backgrounds. In this demo, the robot isn’t working on a”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2070055568060895247
A MUST for every robotics founder AND VC:”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2070203685288731111
Heavy-duty robot arm handling a glowing hot forging on a trimming press. Humanoids might make sense to a certain degree in homes, and some startups are aggressively pushing the idea that they will become valuable in logistics or manufacturing. As someone who spends a lot of”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2070930912745824459
Human 2, Robot 1 🫡 It was fun to check out the @boosterobotics exhibit hall in Beijing today”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2070049906455204077
Humanoid perceptive loco-manipulation reaching new heights”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2072035662275260614
Proception has launched its first products, ProHand 1.0 and ProGlove 1.0. – 22 total DoF with 18 actuated DoF (including a 2-DoF wrist) – Tendon-driven fingers, 4 joints each – On-board control for 10 ms real-time response – Every actuator reports its full state continuously,”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2072016884460060832
Which robot would you want in your home?”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2072719751030472743
We’re happy to announce 2 releases today: – 🧠Brain2qwerty v1 is published at @NatureNeuro – 🚀 Brain2Qwerty v2 is now publicly released Explore how we decode sentences from non-invasive brain recordings:
https://t.co/NFhDVMQoeR Links: 📄v1 Nature Neuro:”
https://x.com/JeanRemiKing/status/2071568417522369008
A new framework for robotics to handle complex and contract-rich tasks! Delivers both high precision AND strong generalization/robustness. What kind of tasks? Contact-rich tasks like motherboard assembly, now being enabled by composing three simple behaviors: Semantic,”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2072228462664839410
Optimus inherits the industrial machine that was forged through Tesla’s hardest ramps.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2072315646344622354
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