Humanoids 🤖 will do anything humans can do. But... are state-of-the-art algorithms up to the challenge? Introducing HumanoidBench, the first-of-its-kind simulated humanoid benchmark with 27 distinct whole-body tasks requiring intricate long-horizon planning and coordination. 🧵👇show more

Can MLLMs actually track what's happening in a video?... Introducing VSTAT 🎯, our new benchmark for visual state tracking. The tasks are simple: count cups, read typed words, count page flips. Humans solve them easily. MLLMs don't. 🧵 [1/11]show more

Humanoid teleoperation is difficult to scale A new paper... explores a more scalable data source: first-person videos of humans doing tasks with their bare hands. The human-humanoid behavior policy unifies the state-action space, enabling effective retargeting to robot actions.show more

🤖💰Inspired by Elon Musk’s vision of 20 billion humanoid... robots, we’re thrilled to announce the process of developing the world’s first anti-hacking, anti-explosion, and anti-malfunction safety system that will secure all types of humanoids. Private and business entities can now invest and be part of our revolutionary product. Details:show more

Introducing Universal Manipulation Exoskeleton (UME) A low-cost exoskeleton with... real-time haptic torque feedback for learning autonomous policies that perform highly force-mediated, tightly space-constrained, visually occluded, whole-body, and long-horizon mobile manipulation tasks. Using UME, the teleoperator can unsheathe a heavy metal sword completely blindfolded. 🧵1/Nshow more

📢Announcing our 3D head avatar benchmark📢 Two tasks with... hidden test sets: - Dynamic Novel View Synthesis on Heads - Monocular FLAME-driven Head Avatar Reconstruction Our goal is to make research on 3D head avatars more comparable and ultimately increase the realism of digital humans. The benchmark studies distinct phenomena of 3D head avatar creation, such as extreme facial expressions, slow motion captures of shaking long hair, or complicated light reflection and refraction patterns of glasses. The two benchmark tasks assess two core desiderata of 3D avatars: While the novel view synthesis challenge focuses on best possible rendering quality of complex moving scenes, the avatar animation challenge is concerned with how well a driving signal is translated into an avatar. Evaluations are light-weight and consist of diverse video recordings from the popular NeRSemble dataset with a hidden test set. Participation in the benchmark is therefore straight-forward and requires only 5 reconstructions per task. Leaderboard and benchmark submission: Benchmark data access and toolkit: Great work by Tobias Kirschstein Simon Giebenhainshow more

Introducing benchmark tracking across all of arXiv With thousands... of models and benchmarks out there, it's impossible to track what's actually state-of-the-art We now index results from millions of papers to surface which models are SOTA according to open source research!show more

Introducing Bubble Up You can now submit Bubble Up... tasks to probe the limits of current AI capabilities for your own tasks. Select unsatisfied results, click “Optimize Bubble”, and submit bubble up tasks — even without vibe coding anything yourself.show more

This year, an important mission is to let simulated... humanoids solve long-term manipulation tasks in challenging dynamic, cluttered environments. This is a simple demonstration achieved by TokenHSI (CVPR 2025). The humanoid here is controlled by a single, unified model.show more

In the future, it might just be humanoid robots... doing the refueling!🤖⛽️ Sinopec plans to introduce humanoid robot workers across its gas stations. They will handle tasks like fueling, picking up items, restocking, and inspections,working alongside human staff, especially during peak holiday periods in China to ease service pressure. With more than 30,000 gas stations across the country (most of them equipped with convenience stores), this implies a deployment of at least 30,000 humanoid robots. The robot is a wheeled humanoid developed by Beijing-based company FIVEAGES.show more

The feet and ankles are the base of athleticism... If they’re fragile, the whole body suffers. If they’re strong, responsive, and durable… the whole body will thank you. What’re your favorite exercises to build up the feet and ankles? Let me know in the comments 👇show more

Daniel Arsham Enters Otherside. Introducing the Daniel Arsham Voyager,... a first-of-its-kind collaboration fusing fine art and digital identity. A collectible that evolves like the world of Otherside, limited to 300 editions. Coming soon.show more

gm! Burn the Boats is finally everywhere books with... fiery covers are sold : ) It is a blueprint for the doers, hardwired to do hard things. For those who know we can achieve anything with the right mindset. Thousands of years of military history & reams of science prove humans perform better when we give ourselves no option but to win. BTB leaves you with a feeling that will remain long after you finish. Infinite possibility.show more

Introducing 2️⃣ new AI systems for robotics: 🤖 ALOHA... Unleashed to perform two-armed manipulation tasks 🦾 DemoStart to control a multi-fingered robotic hand They learned to tackle a range of actions requiring dexterity. Here's how. 🧵show more

When evaluated against the WebVoyager benchmark, which tests agent... performance on end-to-end real world web tasks, Project Mariner achieved a state-of-the-art result of 83.5% working as a single agent setup.show more

Would you? Could you? Challenge your balance and speed... with the thrilling water stone run! These stones dip into the water if you linger too long, requiring quick reflexes and steady footing to make it across. A fun and exciting test of agility and balance-can you master the art of running on water stones? This looks fun, but things are never as easy as they look.show more

"Anybody who tries to do anything BIG, will always... be criticized... The people who do the most criticizing are the people who are completely incapable of doing anything."show more

Here's a fun one you can't do in the... lab: diamond melting at thousands of degrees simulated with Orb. You can simulate anything you want with it here:show more

introducing the beehiiv Media Collective: a first-of-its-kind residency program... built to support independent journalism 🗞 the lineup is already stacked, but we've opened up a few more spots... more below:show more

Introducing: Pact Quests. Do tasks → earn points →... climb tiers → get the airdrop. The fun side of DeFi is now live. Join the PACT Quests 👇show more