Announcing the OpenMind BrainPack, launching today. What you can... get: - BrainPack: Our hardware add-on to robots, giving them autonomous features - NVIDIA Thor GPU - UniTree Go2 Robot Dog or UniTree G1 Humanoid - OM1 Credits Pre-order today:show more

Pi Ventures-Backed OpenMind Opens Waitlist For Humanoid Robot Control... Pi Network (Pi Network) Ventures backed OpenMind (OpenMind) has opened the waitlist for Instabody, a platform that lets users remotely control a real humanoid robot. The company said users can see the world through the robot's eyes and directly control its movements. It believes giving people the controls will help shape how robots evolve. OpenMind previously launched a robot app store built on its OM1 operating system, allowing developers to add new skills to humanoid and quadruped robots.show more

NVIDIA DROPPED A MOTION DIFFUSION MODEL FOR HUMANOID ROBOTS... trained on 700 hours of mocap data kimodo generates high-quality 3D human and robot motions from text prompts you control it with: → full-body pose keyframes → end-effector positions/rotations → 2D paths and waypoints works on human skeletons and unitree G1 robot plug the outputs directly into mujoco or retarget to other robots using GMR has a web-based interactive demo with a timeline editor. runs locally needs ~17GB VRAM to run inference open source under apache 2.0show more

Elon Musk today on Optimus robot: "You’ve probably seen... a lot of impressive demos of robots on the internet, but those demonstrations are pre-programmed or remote-controlled. There is no humanoid robot that can actually do generalized tasks. Optimus will be the first one that will be capable of doing that, in just a demo, it’s generally useful in day-to-day life."show more

🚨 BREAKING: NVIDIA just announced the Isaac GR00T Reference... Humanoid Robot. The first fully open humanoid robot reference design built on Jetson Thor, and it's going straight to the world's top research institutions. This is Jensen Huang's bet on open physical AI infrastructure. The hardware stack is serious: → Unitree H2 Plus chassis, 6 feet tall, 150 pounds, 31 degrees of freedom → Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, 22 degrees of freedom, bringing total to 75 across the full body → NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor onboard compute, 2,070 FP4 teraflops of AI performance, 128GB unified memory → Multi-view sensing, stereo head camera, wrist cameras, IMU Alongside this announcement, Unitree also introduced the H2 Plus as a standalone product, a frontier humanoid combining Unitree's own body, Sharpa's five-finger hands and NVIDIA Robotics Jetson Thor compute into one fully integrated research platform. The full Isaac GR00T software stack ships with it, teleoperation for data capture, open foundation models, Isaac Sim for training, Isaac Lab for evaluation, and accelerated ROS middleware for deployment. The complete loop from data to real-world robot in one unified platform. ETH Zürich, Stanford Robotics Center, UC San Diego and Ai2 are already on board as launch research partners. NVIDIA Robotics did to AI what it's now doing to robotics, build the platform, open the ecosystem, let the world build on top of it. Whoever owns the infrastructure layer wins. NVIDIA knows this better than anyone. 👀 Read more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

“Get vaccinated…and you know what? If you don’t want... to get vaccinated…don’t even think you can get on a plane or a train…and sit beside vaccinated people and put them at risk…” -Trudeau who admitted today that the poisonous vaccine has harmed/killed millions of Canadians.show more

The future of housework just leaked on GitHub and... nobody is talking about it. knox byte just open sourced a framework that coordinates swarms of Unitree G1 humanoid robots to clean your entire house on their own. It's called ARGOS. You tell it "clean the bedroom" in plain English and 2+ G1 robots split the room into zones, sweep in parallel, and sync up for the tasks that need four hands like making the bed or moving furniture. The Claude API decomposes your sentence into a task graph. An auction system makes every robot bid on every task based on distance, battery, and current load. The cheapest robot wins. Cooperative jobs go to the cheapest team. Here's what makes this different from every demo video Boston Dynamics keeps teasing: → 12 cleaning tasks baked in sweeping, mopping, wiping, vacuuming, taking out trash, making the bed, changing sheets, moving furniture, sorting items → 3 policy architectures running underneath OpenVLA-7B for language tasks, Diffusion Policy for floor coverage, ACT for dexterous bimanual work → Train it on your own footage record yourself cleaning, run one command, it extracts poses, builds a LeRobot dataset, and LoRA fine-tunes the policy → PEFA protocol for cooperative work Propose, Execute, Feedback, Adjust. If one robot fails halfway through making the bed, the team replans and retries → Full MuJoCo simulation so you test policies before pushing them to real hardware → Silver and cyan terminal dashboard that shows live fleet status, zone maps, task queues, and battery levels in real time The G1 robots talk to each other over CycloneDDS mesh using Unitree's native SDK. No cloud. No middleware. The whole thing runs on a Jetson Orin inside each robot. The wildest part is the training pipeline. Drop cleaning videos into a folder, run argos train ingest, and the framework does the entire pipeline frame extraction, pose estimation, action labeling, HDF5 dataset, fine-tune, evaluate in sim, deploy to robot. One command per stage. Unitree G1s already exist. The framework to make them clean your house just hit GitHub. 52 stars. MIT License. 100% Opensource.show more

If you’ve been ignoring Axis Robotics because it looks... like another random points farm, read this. In the last 48 hours, Unitree said robotics is approaching its "ChatGPT moment", while the chairman of ACE Robotics believes it could happen by the end of 2027. But for robots to reach that level, they need a crazy amount of training data. That’s exactly what Axis is building. You control simulated robots directly from your browser, complete simple tasks and earn points. Those movements also help create data that can be used to train real robots. And this isn’t some tiny experiment anymore: - $12M raised - 123K+ contributors - 3M+ robot trajectories - Community data already used to train a real robot So yeah, we’re basically farming a potential airdrop while teaching our future robot servants how to work 😂 If you haven’t started yet, it’s completely free. You only need a tiny amount of gas on Base to sign your completed tasks. ✅ Start farming Axis points: Important: Sign every completed task from the History page, otherwise you won’t receive the points.show more

This work makes a humanoid robot do simple parkour... moves by looking with a depth camera and choosing the right move on the fly. The big deal is that it turns lots of small human moves into long, real-time robot behavior, without hand-coding every transition or retraining for each new course. A humanoid robot is usually good at steady walking, but it often fails when it has to do fast moves like jumping up, vaulting, or rolling, and then keep going to the next obstacle. The hard part is that you cannot easily collect training data for every possible obstacle shape, distance, and mistake, so robots end up learning a few moves that only work in a narrow setup. This work starts from short clips of real human parkour moves, like stepping over, vaulting, climbing, and rolling. It uses motion matching, which is basically a smart “pick the next clip that fits best right now” search, to stitch those short clips into a long, smooth plan that looks like a human doing a whole course. Then it trains a controller with reinforcement learning (RL), which means the robot learns by trial and error to copy that plan while staying balanced and not falling. After training separate expert controllers for different moves, it compresses them into 1 controller that uses only onboard depth sensing and a simple “go this fast in this direction” command. In real tests on a Unitree G1 humanoid, it can clear multiple obstacles in a row, adapt when obstacles get moved, and climb a wall up to 1.25m.show more

We’re delighted to announce that Pineapple has officially joined... the NVIDIA Developer Program! 🍍🤝 What Benefits Does This Provide To Pineapple? ✅🍍 Enables Innovations with GPU-Optimized Software: The heart of NVIDIA’s developer resources is access to hundreds of software and performance analysis tools across diverse industries and use cases, from AI and HPC to autonomous vehicles, robotics, simulation, and more. These SDKs and tools can be obtained in multiple ways, including containers, pre-trained models, and Helm charts from the NGC catalog applications from Linux repositories, and source code from NVIDIA's GitHub repositories. ✅🍍Accelerates Higher Education and Research: NVIDIA offers an array of benefits to developers, educators, and researchers in academia, including NVIDIA DLI Teaching Kits , DLI Programs for Educators, Higher Education and Research Grants , Educational Pricing, and Graduate Fellowships. ✅🍍Supports Cutting-Edge Startups with NVIDIA Inception: NVIDIA Inception - the leading accelerator of AI, data science, and HPC startups - supports startups worldwide with go-to-market support, expertise, and technology. Startups get access to training through NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute, preferred pricing on hardware through our global network of distributors, invitations to exclusive networking events, and more. ✅🍍Pineapple will utilise NVIDIA’s cutting-edge tools and technology to accelerate development in decentralized trading. This will help us bring even more powerful features to the our ecosystem! $PAPPLEshow more

It's 2030 and you are reviewing humanoid robots. A... Tesla. A Google. An Apple. An OpenAI. A Meta. A Figure. And a bunch of Chinese-made ones. Which one is best, and why? I think the Tesla understands the world much better. Why? There were eight Teslas around me on the freeway today. Start there. No other robot company has that data. But my robot is parked at the local high school twice a day. Its cameras see humans in all of our weirdness. How we move. Where we go. Where we walk. Who we talk with. What you are wearing. Whether your hair was combed this morning. That data will lead to robotics breakthroughs. Apple might keep up with its Vision Pro data, but it is too freaked out by the privacy implications of using said data. (On the front are six cameras and a couple of TOF -- Time Of Flight -- sensors that can see everything in your home in great detail). Google has a lot of data, for sure. All my: 1. Email. 2. Calendars. 3. Photos. 4. TV watching behavior. 5. Contacts. 6. Documents and spreadsheets. 7. Files. 8. Location data. So I expect Google's robot will be attractive to many. But how do you see the others shake out over the next five years? Make some guesses. But remember what an AI pioneer told me years ago about AI: it's all about the data. The Chinese ones have huge advantages: the Chinese have more data on their citizens, and many more citizens to boot AND they can make robots cheaper than we can. But now that you know OpenAI is building its own robot you have caught wind of what I've heard from many in San Francisco and Silicon Valley: that humanoid robots are the real prize of AI and will be highly profitable for those that can make them and find customers willing to buy them. Here, too, I learned long ago never to bet against Elon Musk. Will you?show more

Free NVIDIA GPU with 16 GB VRAM GPU for... Running Local LLMs! If you want to master local LLMs but you're waiting until you can afford a $1,500 GPU, you're honestly not going to make it. The open source AI ecosystem is moving way too fast for you to wait on your budget to catch up. Especially when you can build a bleeding edge inference engine from scratch right now, completely for free. You don't need a heavy local rig to start. Google is literally letting you use an enterprise grade NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPU for $0/hour. At standard cloud computing rates (~$0.20/hr), Google Colab’s 4 hour daily free tier hands you roughly $24 worth of data center tier GPU compute every single month. And most people just waste it. Let’s talk about the hardware you get access to for free. The NVIDIA Tesla T4 is an absolute workhorse: - Architecture: NVIDIA Turing (TU104) - VRAM: 16GB GDDR6 (320 GB/s bandwidth) - Compute: 320 Tensor Cores | 2560 CUDA Cores - Performance: 130 TOPS INT8 | 8.1 TFLOPS FP32 - Power: Sipping energy at a max 70W TDP This is the exact same hardware I used to run DeepMind's Gemma 4 26B A4B QAT MoE at a 250,000 context window without a single Out Of Memory (OOM) crash. If you have a web browser and 10 minutes, you have everything you need. I’ve put together a fully documented, cell by cell Google Colab notebook that teaches you exactly how to do this. Here is what the notebook actually teaches you: - How to provision an Ubuntu Linux environment with CUDA 13.0 and verify your driver stack. - How to pull the source code and compile the latest llama.cpp C++ binaries from scratch, specifically optimizing the build for your exact GPU using the -DCMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=native flag. - How to directly download quantized local LLMs (GGUF format) straight from HuggingFace using the CLI. - How to manage 16GB VRAM limits, offload neural network layers to the GPU, and push massive context windows. Compile raw llama.cpp, ollama run a model, or spin up the LM Studio CLI. Pick whatever stack you are comfortable with. just start building. No hardware. No credit card. No excuses. Bookmark this post right now so you don't lose the tutorial. Even if you don't have time to run it today, you are going to want this workflow in your engineering toolkit. The link to the free Colab Notebook is in the comments below. Lemme know if you need more tutorials like this.show more

excited to launch AI Reality TV today! our new... platform lets you create your own social simulations. ever wondered if elisabeth preferred jack or will in pirates of the caribbean? now you can simulate and see for yourself! here's how it works: 1. choose a map and scenario. 2. add and customize your characters 3. watch the drama unfold as AI-powered characters interact. 4. talk to them to get their perspective. this is the start of a new kind of entertainment! drop a comment and I'll send you access.show more

#ThoughtForTheDay Getting older is just a part of life,... but for a Dog, it's the ultimate test of loyalty. We don't mind the grey on our muzzles or the cloudy eyes, as long as your hand is still there to steady us. We don't need to run for miles anymore; we just need to know that you'll walk at our pace, however slow that may be. If you are lucky enough to have an old Dog waiting for you today, please be gentle. Give them an extra minute to get up, a little boost when the stairs feel like mountains, and all the patience in the world. They spent their whole life rushing to the door for you; now, it's YOUR turn to wait for them. The older #DogsOfTwitter 🐶 ❤️show more

#ThoughtForTheDay Getting older is just a part of life,... but for a Dog, it's the ultimate test of loyalty. We don't mind the grey on our muzzles or the cloudy eyes, as long as your hand is still there to steady us. We don't need to run for miles anymore; we just need to know that you'll walk at our pace, however slow that may be. If you are lucky enough to have an old Dog waiting for you today, please be gentle. Give them an extra minute to get up, a little boost when the stairs feel like mountains, and all the patience in the world. They spent their whole life rushing to the door for you; now, it's your turn to wait for them. The older #DogsOfTwitter 🐶 ❤️show more

the most beautiful DIY robot build i've ever seen:... this guy turned a robot dog into an off-road wheelchair so his dad could go hiking again his dad used to run marathons, but 20 years ago multiple sclerosis put him in a wheelchair. so his son Jake took a Unitree B2-W (an industrial robot with 4 legs and a wheel on each foot) and built a custom seat on top. on flat ground it rolls just like a normal wheelchair. but when it reaches rocks, water, or stairs, each leg can lift and adjust on its own, allowing it to step right over them. getting this to work safely took a while. > the robot was never designed to carry a person (it tipped over many times during testing) > so Jake spent 3 years recalibrating it. he tested it on his friends first, then once it was stable enough his dad finally got to try it. > and after 20 years in a wheelchair, he climbed a hiking trail again. a chair like this could eventually give wheelchair users access to trails, beaches, broken sidewalks, all the places that are still out of reach today. and one dude built it in his garage lol we truly live in a golden age where a single person can create world-changing techshow more

honestly no surprise why Silicon Valley is so obsessed... with Matic robots right now > basically a Roomba on steroids > vacuums first, then mops > uses five cameras to build a live 3D map of your home > recognizes rugs, wires, furniture, pets, and people, then changes how it cleans > point at a mess and say “hey Matic, clean this” and it does > an NVIDIA Jetson inside the robot handles all the vision, mapping, and navigation > raw footage is discarded in real time and your 3D map never leaves the device btw that last privacy part is extremely underrated IMO my biggest fear with robotics is putting moving cameras and microphones inside our most private spaces without knowing where the data goes. > this week, camera components on Royal Navy drones were caught phoning home to China > Chinese Unitree robot dogs were found with a backdoor that let anyone with the key remotely control them and watch through their cameras > Roombas sent images from inside homes to overseas labelers, including a woman on the toilet and a child your home is your most sacred private space. if you're gonna buy a robot that can physically record, map, and move through it, make sure it's secure!show more

Hey #NeuraxonMini is literally out! , we manage to... "transplant" a Neuraxon 2 bioinspired #AI brain to a physical robot the #SpheroMini moving from our last Scientific Paper (link bellow) by David Vivancos - e/acc & Jose Sánchez for Qubic #OpenScience hybridized with #Aigarth to the real World. First you need a Sphero Education Mini robot about 50$ Then you can try the first cool demos at Hugging Face: 1.- Neuraxon2MiniControl to drive the sphero robot 2.- Neuraxon2MiniWrite to write letters or words with physical moves of the sphero robot using Neuraxon Video Tutorials on youtube later today. Why this matters? Remember we are not building "dead" LLMs we are building #AliveAIs and for that we need to explore how it behaves in reality, from how it learns to how it fails, and what better way that in the emerging field of #robotics , time will tell if your next #HumanoidRobot have a #Neuraxon brain... Read the Paper: Explore the Neuraxon code here: Are you ready for #TrueAI ?show more

today was the first time i was genuinely impressed... with what AI can do i recently decided to buy a whole FPV drone setup knowing basically nothing about the hardware side of it there's a pretty steep learning curve even just to set everything up properly: radios, RF protocols, flight controllers, ESCs, firmware, batteries, goggles, betaflight configs etc as someone that spends essentially 12h a day prompting agents to build software, it's actually pretty rare that i interact with AI on something where i have zero idea what's going on under the hood, and i never really used it for debugging a bunch of physical devices that all have to talk to each other i had codex + voice mode open for basically the entire setup. told it everything i bought, sent it some pics and then just started talking to it >what order do i set all this up in >how do i change this setting on the radio >which of these cables do i use >the drone is flashing pink wat mean >can you make this thing less insane to fly in my apartment and it was surprisingly seamless it would go find the manual for whatever specific thing i was holding, tell me exactly which buttons to press, what port to plug something into, what i should see if it worked etc then when i got to configuring the actual drone i had codex running on the computer it was plugged into, so it could inspect the config, back everything up, change settings, send usb reboot signals and check what happened the insane thing about voice mode is that youre literally hands on with the hardware and just telling codex what it should do, i literally never touched a thing on the computer besides starting voice mode if something doesn't work you tell it what happened and keep going a few hours of this and i had the radio, goggles, charger, batteries, drone firmware and betaflight all set up and had actually flown the thing the part that stuck with me is that i also understood what most of it was doing by the end, every time there was a term or tech i didnt understand id just ask to explain there is something absolutely magical about having proper real time personalized assistance, being able to dump a pile of unfamiliar hardware on your desk and have something figure out exactly what you own and walk through it with you in real time you become the missing physical link pressing the buttons i think spending all day using coding agents has actually made me pretty numb to AI progress. every new model is a bit better at some benchmark or can oneshot some task that the previous one couldn't and you just kinda adjust to it this felt different mostly because i had no existing knowledge to fall back on for the first time the jarvis comparison didn't feel cringe ai for coding and general computer tasks is cool and all but this feels a lot closer to the endgame anyone should be able to just ask any question about whats going on in their life and have realtime support i wonder if more hardware products will actually start exposing some sort of MCP or interface for agents to plug into thinking for example of how elevators in china are increasingly built with interfaces that let delivery robots call them directly instead of having to physically press a button we might actually start seeing hardware design shift from being purely human-interface-first to also being agent-interface-first buttons, screens and menus exist because humans need some way to tell machines what to do. agents don't necessarily need any of that if the hardware exposes an interface directly very curious which side closes the physical world gap first: humanoid robots that can operate hardware designed for humans, or hardware adapting so agents can operate it directlyshow more

Today we are launching Kaito Studio beta. Starting today,... we’re moving to a new model where brands and creators can more intentionally match based on mutual fit, selection, and expectations - launching with 16 partners, with more in the pipeline as details are finalized. Since launching our waitlist in February, a rapidly growing network of creators has joined Kaito Studio, representing 80 million collective followers and $14 billion in follower net worth. These creators span 118 countries, with English-focused creators making up the largest segment, and China and Korea representing the largest country cohorts. Around 30% have also joined with TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube accounts, positioning them to bring content cross-platform. From here, Kaito Studio will focus on solving three main problems, one step at a time: - Ambassador and creator matching - helping brands find the right ambassadors or creators based on data, audience, and subject alignment - Performance attribution - measuring real impact across influence, mindshare, and conversion - End-to-end orchestration - powering a repeatable workflow from creator matching and campaign execution to measurement, evaluation, and optimization We will ramp up opportunities over the coming weeks as more brands finalize their profiles and program details. As we continue building more features for the GenAI and agentic ecosystem, stay tuned for more opportunities ahead.show more