Image created with Gemini. Image prompt: A 1983 Gothic rock-opera music video still in 16:9, a tall brass-and-porcelain humanoid automaton standing at the end of a fog-filled Victorian academy corridor with its glowing white chest-core eclipsed by a black disc surrounded by a blazing gold corona, a woman in a luminous white dress with wind-blown hair reaching toward it as slow-motion doves explode through blinding white backlight and a kneeling male figure bows at the automaton’s feet, the word ‘Robots’ rendered above in enormous heavy chrome serif movie-title lettering with glowing bloom, 35mm grain, heavy haze, soft-focus diffusion, blue-black shadow pierced by bleached white light.
I can basically guarantee you are not being ambitious enough with the work you are assigning Fable Start asking for the maximum possible thing to figure out the far edges of what it can do. After that, you can decide where the system reaches it limits & revise requests downward”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2074137233607590328
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
I have been playing these world models/games since the first diffusion DOOM, and multiplayer at 20 FPS is pretty neat. “A dream of rocket league,” indeed.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/2074348274136346871
MIRA – Blog post
https://mira-wm.com/blog-post/
Introducing MIRA. A playable, multiplayer world model. A dream of Rocket League. Trained on 10k hours of data collected with publicly available bots, MIRA learns the dynamics of a four-player game. The model runs in real time at 20 fps, based on the keys you and the other”
https://x.com/gen_intuition/status/2074104524596457706
19 million developers can now do more with frontier physical AI tools. 🤗 We’re expanding open robotics with @HuggingFace, bringing GR00T 1.7, an open VLA model for humanoid robots and Isaac Teleop directly into LeRobot. Read the blog ➡️
https://t.co/ElPM8aiYN6 #MACHINA2026″
https://x.com/NVIDIARobotics/status/2074380795855147072
NVIDIA and Hugging Face are bringing NVIDIA’s Isaac stack to LeRobot, Hugging Face’s open robotics library. Available now: – Isaac GR00T 1.7, a VLA foundation model for humanoids, claimed to be the first open and commercially viable one – Isaac Teleop, an open framework for”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2074866213818429882
Open-source robotics just leveled up. 🦾 @HuggingFace’s LeRobot 0.6 now includes NVIDIA Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Isaac Teleop, bringing the latest Isaac models and frameworks to the open robotics community. This step-by-step guide walks you through installation, data collection,”
https://x.com/NVIDIARobotics/status/2074390485251113317
A stunning piece of engineering!! 1X unveils the new humanoid hand for NEO – 25 degrees of freedom: 22 fully actuated in the fingers and palm, plus 3 at the wrist. – The DoF are distributed anatomically rather than evenly, deliberately biased toward a thumb that genuinely”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2075264747419869294
Human, yet superhuman! 1X NEO with new-generation hands”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2075267374866186354
UMA is a Paris-based startup designing general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots with human-level dexterity. UMA stands for Universal Mechanical Assistant Concept: Early prototype:”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2074565441205506515
LingBot-World 2.0 (Infinity) is out on Hugging Face interactive world model with: Hour-long generation with zero quality drift Rich actions & events: attack, cast spells, shoot, summon storms Agentic world: a Director Agent drives real-time world evolution 720p/60fps.”
https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/2074936755296641520
Coding a robot with GPT 5.5! A 7dof robot arm w/ functional kinematics. [📍 bookmark, it’s open source] An open source harness for generating 3D models with your favorite coding agent. Custom gui, and STEP parts/assembly, 100% generated in Codex. Thanks for sharing,”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2074039667461165330
Four people just played a full 2v2 Rocket League match inside a neural network. Every frame they saw came out of a 5B-parameter model dreaming the whole game, 20 frames a second, on a single Nvidia B200, with “no physics engine, no rendering engine, and no explicit 3D”
https://x.com/TheRundownAI/status/2074184559768277398
RynnWorld-4D 4D Embodied World Models for Robotic Manipulation”
https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/2074927532688695436
LingBot World 2 — Reactor
https://www.reactor.inc/lingbot-world-2
Okay this live demo is zippy af — give it a try! I’m gonna have to vibe code some dopeness with all these world model APIs dropping left and right.”
https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/2074940598604226602
We shipped 9k Reachy Minis. They generate 15k hours of conversation a month. On GPT-realtime, that would cost $45k per month. So we built our own: fully open, one line to migrate, $0.25/hour. Free on your laptop. Full writeup👇
https://x.com/andimarafioti/status/2075222463777042454
We’re launching the first in a series of Embodied Reasoning offerings: Perceptron Egocentric. It achieves SOTA over the best robotic annotation pipelines built on Gemini 3.5 Flash and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6. Early access is available to partners.”
https://x.com/perceptroninc/status/2075261142038196727
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
We toured Chestnut Robotics in Shanghai and sat down with co-founder & CTO Joe Dong. The Santa Clara, CA based startup has built a tendon-driven humanoid hand with all the actuators contained in the palm, weighing only about 400 grams. We discussed the hand design, their”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2075237578887008390
At UMA, we build and own the full stack, from hardware to software. This allows us to bake safety in at all levels, rather than bolt it on as an afterthought. Because trust is everything when robots share our world. Reach out if you want to be part of this journey.”
https://x.com/psermanet/status/2074512829617491996
Starting with the fundamentals Prototype Version 0 AI, Software, Hardware A small team, 9 months Designed and assembled in Paris at @UMA_Robots”
https://x.com/RemiCadene/status/2074442725814878510
1.7× faster inverse kinematics in pure Python, GPU-accelerated! Fully open-source and built for scale [📍Bookmark for later] PyRoki, a modular toolkit for robot kinematic optimization, supporting – inverse kinematics – trajectory optimization, and – motion retargeting. Built”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2075279596795183181
If you work on flexible/soft object manipulation… this one is for you: Teach robots new skills directly on real hardware. {No weeks of simulation or endless trials needed} Enabling a robot to tie a dynamic flying overhand knot in the air using one human demonstration and”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2073105240136540198
Boost real-robot policy success & speed using only cheap simulation, without needing any extra real data: – 2.4× success + 37% faster execution – Half-day iteration with new retry behaviors Real-robot imitation policies for dexterous manipulationby learning to steer diffusion”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2073467652207448305
New from Robbyant: LingBot-Vision, a vision foundation model built to be “spatial-perception native.” Most vision models chase semantic invariance and stay weak at fine geometry. LingBot-Vision makes object boundaries the core learning signal instead. It learns from boundaries,”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2074539842726510874
Robotics is getting its Raspberry Pi moment. This solves one of the biggest frictions in Physical AI: Everything has been fragmented. Different tools for control. Sensors. Calibration. Learning. Now it’s one unified stack: • motor control to VLA models in one system •”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2074764479166849060
Robotics with MATLAB Intro to robotics with a strong focus on learning by doing. You use simulations and animations to understand how robots work, while the math builds intuition step by step. The course shows how to write code for robot physics, control systems, and motion”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2074554801761710495
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
I’ll try and compress 20 years of experience into 30 seconds Startups have a GREAT FILTER that kills almost everyone. It’s there to weed out the people who aren’t meant to build companies The good news is it can be beaten – even with little or no capital. Once you beat it, you”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2073062758573367440
Just leaving the Hark office; team is in full crank mode I have a bit of a different view on where digital AI should be headed…I can’t wait to show you more about what we’re building!”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2074722161118556209
This is a video from our all-hands, it’s a rare look behind the scenes of the early bringup of F.03 F.01, F.02, and F.03 were all designed and walking within a year of each other. The pace of progress is mind-blowing, especially considering each robot was a new architecture,”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2075234184164196580
LingBot-Video is out on Hugging Face MoE-based video foundation model built for embodied intelligence 30B params, only 3B active at inference Augmented with 70K hours of embodied data on top of large-scale internet video pretraining”
https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/2074932729376870826
I’ll always root for a team that open-sources its best work, and Robbyant just did it properly. Robbyant, Ant Group’s embodied-AI company, released LingBot-Vision, a vision foundation model for robots, and the part I love is the data. They trained it on 161M images, filtered”
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2074830382353244434
Announcing Robostral Navigate, our first model for embodied navigation: an 8B robotics navigation model that guides robots to autonomously perform tasks specified with natural language. Single RGB camera. State-of-the-art on R2R-CE.”
https://x.com/MistralAI/status/2074856309438980145
Robostral Navigate: single-camera AI navigation | Mistral AI
https://mistral.ai/news/robostral-navigate/
X-Humanoid unveiled TG-VLA, which it calls the world’s first whole-body VLA framework for full-size humanoid robots. The goal: move humanoids past “mobile dual-arm systems” to human-like, whole-body coordinated operation. Built on three technologies: – HEX: an open-source”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2073108647060861371
Also new from Robbyant: LingBot-VLA 2.0, a vision-language-action (VLA) model built to close the gap between lab demos and real-world robots. Three notable upgrades: – Data: ~60,000 hours of pretraining, 50,000 hours of robot trajectories across 20 embodiments plus 10,000 hours”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2074869230017946009
Apologies for skipping the past 3 weeks of newsletters. I was on a 17-day trip to China through the end of June, packed with a hectic travel and touring schedule. Luckily, the news cycle was pretty quiet while I was away The newsletter will be back on a regular weekly schedule”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2073783493721522343
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
Robots playing soccer fully autonomously at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon, South Korea.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2073438917093896544
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 absolutely awesome! Boston Dynamics Atlas robot handing the ball to the ref during Brazil vs Norway at the World Cup.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2074191857261957553
We visited One Robotics’ lab in Shenzhen. The company has a lineup of home robotics products but is now heavily focused on its wheeled humanoid robot, Onero. We chatted with their Chief AI Architect, Hu Yusong, about the AI foundation model work his team is doing. @dolylupec”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2074477522079912425
We went to Wuji’s Shenzhen office to get a grip on their dexterous hand design. Each finger joint is driven directly by a tiny motor paired with a worm gear that redirects the axis of rotation. We spoke with a senior team member there to get more insights. @dolylupec @XRoboHub”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2074161438432915880
A mobile companion that’s safe around kids and gets smarter with every software update. The possibilities are endless.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2074874934262989247
Dear algorithm: please show this to people interested in robotics, embodied AI, automation, and manufacturing. I’ll be at MACHINA in Paris tomorrow and Tuesday. Thank you.”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2073757305544265868
Do you even lift? A teleoperation framework that enables full-size humanoids to handle heavy payloads: Like this 175cm, 65kg L7 robot that handles up to 24kg using raw, noisy consumer VR inputs for human intent tracking. Lab demos show the L7 robot walking stably while lifting”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2073313895947661352
Doomers resisting technological progress until the benefits become too good to resist.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2075320344391643288
I’d love to see more of these demos from hand makers where a 5-finger hand is actually necessary, or clearly better suited than a simpler gripper.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2075275861771927642
It’s so mesmerizing to watch Atlas move. The robot is unbound by human skeletal limits; key joints can rotate a continuous 360°.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2074569143622496546
Seriously, what are these @1x_tech people on?? Finally, something that actually looks like the future we were promised…”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2075165354427342905
The engineers were allowed to cook.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2075272514755059773
The hand is where the mind meets the world.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2073433450758156387
The robots are coming, and the people building them, are all heading to one place… San Francisco on July 16th: Humanoids are making their first steps on factory floors, autonomous vehicles are hitting public roads, and agricultural robots are transforming how we grow food, as”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2074917179502571693
Which robot would you want in your home?”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2072719751030472743
Getting high-quality robot training data is slow and painfully costly. Human labelers cost ~$50/hour, making it a nightmare for robotics labs to scale. Today, @perceptroninc just completely changed the math. They just launched Egocentric, the first in a series of new ‘Embodied”
https://x.com/DataChaz/status/2075303718153789944
Unveiling our Northstar design @UMA_Robots A body that can navigate our space Hands that can use our tools Approachable, competent, calm A robot you feel at ease having at your workplace and home”
https://x.com/RemiCadene/status/2074442439142609237
This looks like another step toward removing the data bottleneck in robotics. The bottleneck exists because recording demonstrations is easy, but labeling every grasp, hold, move, and release is slow and expensive. Perceptron Egocentric dropped a new robotics video annotation”
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2075286203583398181
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