Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Robotics Embodiment for the week ending July 24, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview.
Category cover image prompt:
A glossy chrome humanoid robot caught mid-dance in a loose funky pose under a glowing rainbow mothership beam descending from a deep cosmic purple-black sky, with saturated multicolor ribbons swirling around its polished joints and starburst sparkles popping like stage lights, the word 'Robots' arcing boldly across the top in fat 1970s chrome bubble letters with stacked magenta, orange, and turquoise drop shadows, 1970s psychedelic Afrofuturist funk concert poster style, one clear central subject with breathing room, vivid saturated color, no other text.
This Week in Robotics Embodiment News
Here’s a quick AI-generated summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5, based on the headlines and excerpts accompanying this week’s links:
- Anthropic and Physical Intelligence: A rumor that Anthropic is in talks to acquire Physical Intelligence drew a TechCrunch write-up, and a reporter for The Information said the rumors have some seed of truth. It would be a notable move for a lab with few public robotics signs.
- Humanoid production ramps up: Figure said its San Jose facility built its 1,000th humanoid. Tesla's Q2 deck said it is replacing the Model S and X lines in Fremont with first-generation Optimus lines, with production expected to start soon.
- Models that generalize to new settings: Sunday Robotics reported its ACT-2 model folded clothes in 785 real attempts across homes it had never entered, with a 99.1% success rate. mimic introduced FLUX-mimic, a video-action model aimed at general-purpose dexterity.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Robotics Embodiment
Huge if true. Rumor is that Anthropic is in talks to acquire Physical Intelligence. While Google DeepMind has been actively developing Gemini Robotics and OpenAI has been quietly building a dedicated robotics team for over a year, Anthropic has shown almost no public signs of”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2078708600827207829
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/21/the-anthropic-physical-intelligence-rumor-roiling-ai-twitter/
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumors have some seed of truth to them.” – Reporter for The Information”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2079613650667794894
The new 4-step Cosmos 3 Super models generate images and video up to 25x faster than the originals, and still rank among the best open-weight models on @ArtificialAnlys. 🥇 #1 for image-to-video (no audio) 🥈 #2 for text-to-image Try them on @huggingface:”
https://x.com/NVIDIAAI/status/2079949373069197658
NVIDIA’s Cosmos3 Edge is out! it watches videos streams & understands the mechanics/physics in them 🔥 it can reason in words, images, or next action prediction. physical AI reasoning, on the edge. try it on @huggingface (or on your edge device) ▶️
https://x.com/HuggingApps/status/2079923165157859362
Introducing Cosmos 3 Edge
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/cosmos3edge
The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview
https://huggingface.co/blog/nvidia/state-of-simulation-for-physical-ai
Introducing FLUX-mimic, a next-generation Video-Action Model for general purpose dexterity, developed in partnership with @bfl_ai. Late last year we published mimic-video and introduced Video-Action Models (VAM): a new family of robotics foundation models built on top of video”
https://x.com/mimicrobotics/status/2080307032746336367
Every new part requires new fixtures and months of integration overhead. This cuts deployment cycles from months to weeks! Industrial automation has always been trapped in a zero-sum trade-off between flexibility and reliability… @mimicrobotics Introduces FLUX-mimic, bringing”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2080353422935470198
Robots that fold laundry in your bedroom… without ever seeing it before. Success rate: 99.1%. @sundayrobotics just showed a model called ACT-2 folding clothes in 785 real attempts, across strangers’ homes it had never entered. Success rate: 99.1%. No setup, no training in”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2078030144782979413
My conversation with Majid Khadiv, Assistant Professor at @TU_Muenchen and head of the ATARI Lab (AI Planning in Dynamic Environments): Majid grew up in Iran, wasn’t a tech kid (he just wanted to play soccer), and somehow ended up leading the dynamics and control team that built”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2080277248553390376
My morning ritual: coffee, then watch our robot assemble stuff. The model isn’t fast, but it measures every grasp, obsesses over every alignment, and handles every piece like an heirloom. Watching is therapeutic, even meditative. Simple pleasure from the execution of a task well”
https://x.com/DrJimFan/status/2078150032575082616
Trained on zero real-world data. Learned to walk, pick up boxes, and follow multi-step instructions… in the REAL world. ( 📌 Paper below) Researchers from Amazon FAR, Berkeley, Stanford, and CMU scanned real rooms with an iPhone, rebuilt them as 3D Gaussian Splatting scenes,”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2079476975391985836
The latest Tesla iOS app decompile shows clear signs that Tesla is actively building home robot support for Optimus. – The app will request explicit permission to collect video and spatial data while Optimus operates in the home – Users will be able to view and filter”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2079827794490696169
Show this to researchers, PhD students, factory managers, heads of automation, and VCs investing in robotics and physical AI. I’m expanding my newsletter, and I need their voice in it. Can you do this for my dear beloved algorithm? If you’re working on something in robotics,”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2078178418500190356
A Chinese company just revealed this autonomous robot toilet It literally drives itself to you when you summon it by voice or remote What a time to be alive”
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/2079230632534933961
Humanoid motion planning has a brutal reality check: A plan can look good in an LLM or search tree and still be physically impossible for the robot. 🎧🎙️That is exactly why I’m excited for tomorrow’s podcast episode with Majid Khadiv. His group just published FARO, a framework”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2079989774928974235
Industrial robotics is not only a hardware story. A lot of adoption depends on what happens around the robot: how it is programmed, simulated, commissioned, maintained and scaled across more than one application. That is why operating systems for robots matter more than they”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2079113182581326156
“Most VCs told me not to invest in Figure. I did my own research for two weeks straight and ended up putting in around $19 million.” My conversation with Andrew Kang (@Rewkang), CEO of RoboStrategy Advisors (Nasdaq: BOT); the first publicly listed venture vehicle built”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2079190336799412442
Xynova (Hangzhou-based dexterous-hand startup) closed a 500M yuan (~$70M) Series A+. Led by Meituan. Other notable investors: Xiaomi, NIO Capital, and China Merchants Capital. That’s 4 rounds in under 2 years, ~1.5B yuan (~$210M) total. I got to visit their Hangzhou office -“
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2078198671406236044
Xynova tour in Hangzhou. The startup is building dexterous hands for humanoids. Their tech lead chatted with us about the 23-DoF hand design, a hybrid-drive approach, tendon durability, and more. Shoutout to @dolylupec for co-hosting the interview. @Xynovaofficial_ @XRoboHub”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2079603068526907584
New Episode: I visited Proception in Mountain View, a humanoid hand startup founded by two ex-Tesla Optimus engineers. Co-founder and CEO Jay Li (@JayLiStanford) showed me the office and the line producing hundreds of hands, then sat down to share his story, the technology”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2079943158587421006
Jensen Huang: “I think the technology is ready and it could be useful, so I really do hope somebody in Japan creates the world’s most lovable humanoid robot again.” News from Japan this week: amid soaring memory prices, NVIDIA introduced smaller Jetson Thor modules. New Jetson”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2078289582420803693
Pieter Abbeel condensed modern Deep RL into 6 lectures. The exact algorithms behind every robot that learns: DQN, PPO, SAC, model-based RL. Free on YouTube. Slides included. The series covers the full foundation: → MDPs and exact solution methods → Deep Q-Learning → Policy”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2078541063648633253
This new drone spins up to 25 per second. They call it the “Phantom Twist. Making it almost invisible: Most stealth tech tries to blend in. This drone just spins until your eyes can’t hold onto it. Northwestern engineers built a drone that exploits motion blur, the same effect”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2079265860133241087
Figure has produced its 1,000th humanoid robot at its San Jose, CA production facility.”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2080397918700536239
Proud to share BotQ has manufactured our 1,000th humanoid robot for F.03 – congrats to the team!”
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2080319785402052619
Tesla in Q2 earnings deck: “We have decommissioned the manufacturing lines for Models S & X at our Fremont Factory and are installing the first-generation lines for Optimus, where we expect to start production soon. The initial Optimus builds will be used in our Optimus”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2080024538348445912
Robotics @ XIAOMI
https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html
Dana: A new way to build physical AI | Applied Intuition
https://www.appliedintuition.com/blog/dana-new-way-to-build-physical-ai
Deploying Humanoids in the Real World… What Breaks Between Demo and Production? Humanoid robots are reaching impressive levels of capability in controlled environments. Yet, moving from successful demos to reliable deployment in real industrial settings remains a major”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2078917952917909763
I am as excited about humanoids as anyone. A factory floor is still a useful reality check. A large part of the physical world around us is produced with robots and machines built for a very specific task. That may sound less exciting than a general-purpose robot, but it has”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2078396300844781595
Starts slowly, accelerates rapidly!”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2080410404547863028
Why create robot intelligence for just one hand, when we could have it learn from many? GEN-1, our latest embodied foundation model, now supports a broad range of end effectors from 5-finger hands, to specialized tools, and everything in between.”
https://x.com/GeneralistAI/status/2080292438057373947
Why is @JayLiStanford extremely bullish about humanoids”
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2080106807176171537
New issue is up. Stacked with big stories. This space just keeps accelerating.
https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/2078881823330111824
Robots can now decide for themselves how long to think before they act… and that makes them much smarter and more precise at hard tasks: A framework that enables robot policies to perform variable-length latent reasoning before acting by framing it as autoregressive”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2080200259561546058
An industrial robot arm stripped down with its casing off… Yesterday I saw this video, and looking inside at those synchronized timing belts, pulleys, and heavy-duty parallel shafts running at full tilt tells you everything you need to know about the reality of physical”
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2079837874262790323
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