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

NVIDIA's Kimodo is the release of the week 🔥... Prompt the timeline whatever your want like: "a person walks forward" → "a person starts jumping", hit Generate, and watch a 3D character do it in seconds (700hrs of pro mocap training. Works on human + robot skeletons. Super fast + free to use on HF)show more

Turns out you can train humanoid hands without any... robot data. The idea in HUG is quite simple: (a) collect human data with smart glasses, (b) train a human manipulation model, (c) retarget to multi-fingered robot hands.show more

NVIDIA announces the first open humanoid robot reference design... built for robotics research. The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot combines the Unitree H2 humanoid robot, Sharpa Wave five-fingered hands for dexterous manipulation, Jetson Thor onboard compute, and Isaac GR00T open software and models, giving researchers a full-stack platform from data capture to model deployment. Read the #NVIDIAGTC Taipei announcement:show more

How can we leverage diverse human videos to improve... robot manipulation? Excited to introduce EgoVLA — a Vision-Language-Action model trained on egocentric human videos by explicitly modeling wrist & hand motion. We build a shared action space between humans and robots, enabling seamless transfer. With some robot demos, EgoVLA becomes a powerful, generalizable robot policy.show more

SAM 3D Body is a CVPR 2026 award candidate... paper from AI at Meta model recovers a full 3D human body mesh from a single RGB image you can run it automatically, or guide the reconstruction with masks and 2D keypoints thx to Niels Rogge for awesome demo ideashow more

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

🤖 INTERESTING: Unitree Robotics’ G1 humanoid robot played table... tennis against a human during a live demo in Hangzhou, China.show more

Controlling a CM6 robot with a LEAP motion controller.... J2 of the robot is a bit underpowered but we mainly tested our algorithm here that we will implement on our other robots. Data is shared at 125Hz between robot and Leap over local network.show more

We’ve seen humanoid robots walk around for a while,... but when will they actually help with useful tasks in daily life? The challenge here is the diversity and complexity of real-world scenes. Our new work tackles this problem via 3D visuomotor policy learning. Using data from only 1 scene, our Improved 3D Diffusion Policy (iDP3) enables a full-sized humanoid robot to autonomously pick&place objects, pour water, and wipe tables, in the wild open world. (and all these skills are useful, right?) Web: Fully open-sourced code:show more

Excited to share our #CoRL2024 paper on humanoid motion... generation! Combining human motion priors with VLM feedback, Harmon generates natural, expressive, and text-aligned humanoid motion from freeform text descriptions. 👇(1/4)show more

Early results from my AI training runs. I've trained... my $200 robot arm on a simple picking task using imitation learning. It has learned to control the robot arm using only camera images and joint states.show more

hi all, excited to join! i'm building an expressive... mini "shoggoth" robot which will eventually be hooked up to gpt4o realtime voice. i'm currently working on the low-level policies, which are trained in a mujoco simulation with RL. to delay working on raw-pixels for now, i trained a pose-estimation model using deeplabcut and triangulate the position in 3d space using the stereo cameras. eventually, i'll use gpt4o's tool calling capabilities to activate several of these policies (closed and open loop) based on the dialog flow! captions: manual actuation of the tentacle / 3d pose estimation / target designshow more

Unitree humanoid robot boxing match vs a human

Imagine having a ping pong robot! 🏓 Researchers and... developers building physical AI: meet Reachy 2 from Pollen Robotics, an open-source, humanoid robot for real-world experimentation. It’s a bimanual mobile manipulator: each 7-DOF arm mimics human proportions and can lift up to 3 kg, giving dexterity for object handling. It can be controlled with Python and ROS2 Humble, or go straight into VR teleoperation, use a headset to move Reachy’s arms, hands, and head, and see through its cameras as if you’re in the robot’s own body. Want it to move around? A mobile base with three omnidirectional wheels, rich sensors, and LiDAR lets Reachy 2 navigate and explore its surroundings smoothly. 🗺️ Under the hood, it’s powered by a CPU system that’s ready for machine learning, perfect for loading AI frameworks and testing new models from Hugging Face directly on the robot. Keep making robots more, and more accessible Pollen team! ... and keep making more open source models to make robots more mainstream clem 🤗!show more

Describe a part → get a 3D model. text-to-cad... Open source harness that lets coding agents generate CAD: • STEP, STL, 3MF, DXF • URDF + robot motion • geometry-aware edits Runs locally. No backend. Explore more:show more

Most robots still need markers, checkerboards, or long calibration... rituals just to know where their arms are. Now it works from raw images in seconds. roboreg is a markerless multi arm localization toolkit that plugs into ROS 2 and RViz. No special hardware. No custom setup. You toggle between robot descriptions and the system figures out the rest. The idea is simple: ✅ Hand eye calibration from plain RGB or RGB D images ✅ Only three robot poses needed for millimeter accuracy ✅ Works with any ROS 2 compatible robot and camera ✅ Fully open source under Apache 2.0 It is powered by Hydra, a new marker free ICP variant that converges far more reliably than classical baselines and runs in under a second. If you want to try it: roboreg: ROS 2 roboreg: Hydra paper: pip install roboreg More details and discussion on Open Robotics Discourse:show more

🚀 ASAP is now FULLY open-source! 🚀 ✅ Humanoid... RL motion tracking & delta actions ✅ Motion retargeting to any humanoid ✅ ASAP Benchmark motions + pretrained policies ✅ Sim2Sim & Sim2Real ready — run ASAP in sim or on your G1 robot! 🔗 🎥👇show more

New open-source library speeds up whole-body imitation learning. Train... the policy below in under 20 minutes ⬇️ LocoMuJoCo2 brings biomechanics and humanoid robotics into one clean, high-speed benchmark. Built for researchers who want to train smarter and faster. What it offers ✅ 22K+ motion trajectories per humanoid model ✅ Supports both MuJoCo and MJX ✅ JAX-based PPO, GAIL, AMP, DeepMimic implementations ✅ Plug-and-play robot2robot retargeting pipeline Whether you’re building humanoids or studying human motion, this toolkit saves you weeks of setup. Github: Thank you, Firas Al-Hafez for sharing this great work!show more

This also shows up in the representations learned by... the model. We plot the model’s representations of human and robot images. As pre-training is scaled up, the representation of humans and robots become more aligned: to a scaled-up model, human videos "look" like robot demos.show more

A new wheeled humanoid robot DARWIN-01 From Shenzhen Standard... Robotics. This is a humanoid robot for industrial manufacturing and warehouses. The foldable body can adapt to a variety of spatial operations, and the end effector can also be switched to adapt to personalized business goals. The maximum load is 10kg. The universal wheels can shuttle between shelves, workshops and assembly lines at will, with a speed greater than 2m/s. Automatic charging or battery replacement, with a battery life of 12 hours.show more