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

Introducing For the last 9 months, we've worked with... renowned artist DAILLY to create @metamorphic_gg – a first-of-its-kind 3D/VR music album journey that pushes the boundaries of installation art, experience, and the album format itself. 🧵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

Trump on Iran: We are taking out all of... their capability for anything having to do with the Hormuz Strait. I think, in the end, we will end up controlling the whole thing.show more

BREAKING: TRUMP CLAIMS US WILL CONTROL THE STRAIT OF... HORMUZ IN THE END “We are taking out all of their capability for anything having to do with the Hormuz Strait. I think, in the end, we will end up controlling the whole thing.”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

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

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

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

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

We are investing in the frontiers of agentic capabilities... with a few early prototypes. Project Mariner is built with Gemini 2.0 and is able to understand and reason across information - pixels, text, code, images + forms - on your browser screen, and then uses that info to complete tasks for you. When evaluated against the WebVoyager benchmark, it achieved a state-of-the-art result of 83.5% working as a single agent setup.show more

Take a look at our First-of-its-Kind, Gum Gum Pop-Up... Jacket for the One Piece 2xLP, measuring a wild 6 feet long! With stunning art by Kevin Wilson, you’ll be surprised with tons of interactive Pop-Up Elements and easter eggs: a packaging experience like no other.show more

The Genetic Upgrade of Humans Distinct races on Earth... didn't happen naturally. A variety of physical features was planned to provide a variety of experiences. This is why Earth is so special. There are over 40 worlds serving as members of Galactic Federation who inspired the variety of physical features found with Earth humans. ------- #AKATU (2024) ~ "Commander Ikai of Taygeta and Commander Sananda of Merope arrived with grand motherships many times to survey areas of destruction. Observing primitive humans and attempting to communicate was not accomplished in the purpose of each mission of light. A plan was made to assist these primitive beings with upgrades of bodies that would serve humanity ongoing. As careful thought with intricate planning, it was noted that the vast cosmos was full of varying looks and sizes of souls in form. The Galactic Federation had members of many skin colors, and these aspects would serve in the choices of upgraded human designs of form."show more

Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro: We have nothing to do with... Israel. We're American Jews. The State of Israel does not represent world Jewry! They could call themselves Herzlston, or whatever they want, but they are not "Israel" and they are not the "State of the Jews"! Israel is not the state of the Jewish people!show more

China now has its own “Bolt” — a robot... named after sprint legend Usain Bolt. A Chinese research team has unveiled the world’s first full-size humanoid robot to reach a peak speed of 10 meters per second, setting a new global benchmark for humanoid running. Bolt runs like a body pushed to the limit. Its joints and power systems work in tight coordination, keeping it balanced even at sprint speed. Built to match the build of an adult man—1.75 meters tall and 75 kilograms—it is a life-sized system operating at the edge of physics. Compared with Usain Bolt’s iconic 9.58-second 100-meter world record, which many experts believe may stand for decades, the gap between humans and machines is narrowing fast. Chinese robots are now challenging the ceiling of human performance—much as AlphaGo once challenged Go champion Ke Jie. The breakthrough builds on earlier world-record achievements in high-speed robotic running and marks a giant leap for China in humanoid motion and control. Beyond records, Bolt also carries practical value: robots are leaving the lab and stepping into real-world settings—sports training, emergency response, and demanding industrial tasks where speed, balance and control truly matter.show more

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