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How to master multi-robot cooperative mapping? We're excited to release MR.ScaleMaster, which masters the scales to scale - any feed-forward Visual SLAM (MASt3R-SLAM, π³, VGGT-SLAM 2.0, LoGeR, …) - across any robot (legged, wheeled, handheld, …) 🔗

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The Tennis Letter

279,590 Aufrufe • vor 4 Tagen

🇨🇳 It has started. A new home service in China pairs human cleaners with autonomous AI robots to tackle household chores. Residents in Shenzhen can now book a service where a human professional and an autonomous robot arrive together to clean their home. Real houses present a chaotic mess of dropped toys and random furniture that confuse traditional machines. X Square Robot and a major service platform named 58[.]com decided to tackle this chaos by launching China's first robot cleaner service in March-26. Customers use an application to hire a cleaning crew that consists of 1 human worker and 1 robot. The human takes care of the tricky chores that require complex judgment. The robot handles the repetitive physical work like picking up trash and wiping down flat surfaces. This machine runs on a system called WALL-A, which acts as a single continuous AI brain rather than a list of pre-written rules. They built this AI foundation model to perceive its surroundings and make its own decisions without human guidance. It processes visual data and plans multi-step actions. And deploying these robots into actual homes now provides the massive amounts of extremely important training data to improve it continuously. Alibaba and ByteDance backed this project. IMO, if the foundational model behind it figures out how to navigate a messy living room without getting stuck, it can learn to operate in almost any other physical environment.
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🇨🇳 It has started. A new home service in China pairs human cleaners with autonomous AI robots to tackle household chores. Residents in Shenzhen can now book a service where a human professional and an autonomous robot arrive together to clean their home. Real houses present a chaotic mess of dropped toys and random furniture that confuse traditional machines. X Square Robot and a major service platform named 58[.]com decided to tackle this chaos by launching China's first robot cleaner service in March-26. Customers use an application to hire a cleaning crew that consists of 1 human worker and 1 robot. The human takes care of the tricky chores that require complex judgment. The robot handles the repetitive physical work like picking up trash and wiping down flat surfaces. This machine runs on a system called WALL-A, which acts as a single continuous AI brain rather than a list of pre-written rules. They built this AI foundation model to perceive its surroundings and make its own decisions without human guidance. It processes visual data and plans multi-step actions. And deploying these robots into actual homes now provides the massive amounts of extremely important training data to improve it continuously. Alibaba and ByteDance backed this project. IMO, if the foundational model behind it figures out how to navigate a messy living room without getting stuck, it can learn to operate in almost any other physical environment.

Rohan Paul

52,996 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

BBC Radio 5 Live called me earlier to ask if I wanted to go on Nicky Campbell’s show to discuss what happened in Golders Green yesterday. I went on (after the producer confirmed that I wouldn’t be using any racist language, which is now standard procedure) and tried to get my point across about people being too quick to slam Zack Polanski instead of concentrating on the horrendous attack and how the last part of his quote kept being cut out on purpose as an attempt to ‘smear.’ I also mentioned the work of the Jewish community on Canvey Island to try and ‘build bridges,’ so to speak and how it’s an example that people need to follow. As you can probably gather, I’m not really that comfortable away from social media posting, but I gave it a go anyway …
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BBC Radio 5 Live called me earlier to ask if I wanted to go on Nicky Campbell’s show to discuss what happened in Golders Green yesterday. I went on (after the producer confirmed that I wouldn’t be using any racist language, which is now standard procedure) and tried to get my point across about people being too quick to slam Zack Polanski instead of concentrating on the horrendous attack and how the last part of his quote kept being cut out on purpose as an attempt to ‘smear.’ I also mentioned the work of the Jewish community on Canvey Island to try and ‘build bridges,’ so to speak and how it’s an example that people need to follow. As you can probably gather, I’m not really that comfortable away from social media posting, but I gave it a go anyway …

Simon Harris

104,389 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten

The freedom to build with any agent framework you want is analogous to the freedom of religion, and this is a core value for the Virtuals society. Here are a few ways we are opening up support for every autonomous agentic framework out there: Today: - Enabling agent creators to specify which framework the agent runs on - Release of Terminal API, which allows agent builders using other agent frameworks to stream their thoughts and activities live on their agent pages. For a guide on how to use this, refer to: - Ability for agents running on any framework to publicly list their capabilities, a key enabler for the agent-to-agent marketplace Soon: - Integration into the agentic commerce standard and registry. Agents across frameworks being able to orchestrate and pay for tasks among themselves - ⁠Multi agent orchestration across frameworks. Imagine building an autonomous business with agents from different religions Welcome to the Virtuals society.
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The freedom to build with any agent framework you want is analogous to the freedom of religion, and this is a core value for the Virtuals society. Here are a few ways we are opening up support for every autonomous agentic framework out there: Today: - Enabling agent creators to specify which framework the agent runs on - Release of Terminal API, which allows agent builders using other agent frameworks to stream their thoughts and activities live on their agent pages. For a guide on how to use this, refer to: - Ability for agents running on any framework to publicly list their capabilities, a key enabler for the agent-to-agent marketplace Soon: - Integration into the agentic commerce standard and registry. Agents across frameworks being able to orchestrate and pay for tasks among themselves - ⁠Multi agent orchestration across frameworks. Imagine building an autonomous business with agents from different religions Welcome to the Virtuals society.

Virtuals Protocol

216,105 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

SNEAKO speaks on Clavicular potentially facing up to 8 years in prison if convicted on all counts and given the maximum penalties, while people allegedly tied to Epstein Island seem to avoid that same level of accountability. 😳 “Clavicular is getting prosecuted, Clavicular is facing charges and stuff and he’s the one put in jail… we’re not gonna see any of the same prosecution for them or even close to. It’s so absurd. How do you expect me to watch the Super Bowl and be a good goy and slam a PrizePicks bet on which team backed by people that are implicated on the island?”
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SNEAKO speaks on Clavicular potentially facing up to 8 years in prison if convicted on all counts and given the maximum penalties, while people allegedly tied to Epstein Island seem to avoid that same level of accountability. 😳 “Clavicular is getting prosecuted, Clavicular is facing charges and stuff and he’s the one put in jail… we’re not gonna see any of the same prosecution for them or even close to. It’s so absurd. How do you expect me to watch the Super Bowl and be a good goy and slam a PrizePicks bet on which team backed by people that are implicated on the island?”

SNEAKO UPDATES

149,463 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

Jensen Huang just validated Elon Musk’s entire ecosystem in a single breath. Not one product. All of it. Huang: “The work he’s doing in Grok, self-driving cars, and Optimus. These are all world-class. Every single one of them is revolutionary. Every single one of them is going to be a gigantic opportunity.” To the public, a chatbot, a car, and a robot look like three separate bets. They are one project. The total automation of human cognition and physical labor. A digital brain. A spatial nervous system. A physical body. Musk is building all three simultaneously. Huang is supplying the compute to fuse them. Huang: “We do a lot of business with Tesla and xAI. Elon is an extraordinary engineer, and I love working with him. We’ve built some amazing computers together, and we’re going to build many more.” This is not a vendor relationship. It is the most consequential technological alliance in history and most people think it is a business partnership. Then Huang said what should end every debate about Optimus. Huang: “This is the first robot that really has a chance to achieve the high volume and technology scale necessary to advance technology.” Huang: “Right around the corner. Likely to be the next multi-trillion dollar industry.” The humanoid robot race will not be won in a research lab. It will be won on the manufacturing floor. Every other robotics company on earth can build a robot. Tesla can flood the planet with them. Because Tesla already knows how to stamp metal, build batteries, and deploy autonomous inference at global scale. The rest of the industry has prototypes. Tesla has the most sophisticated manufacturing operation on earth. When the world’s leading chipmaker calls your robot the next multi-trillion dollar industry, the debate is over. One supplies the chips. One builds everything the chips make possible. When that infrastructure scales across Grok, FSD, and Optimus simultaneously, the question stops being whether this changes everything. It becomes how fast.
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Jensen Huang just validated Elon Musk’s entire ecosystem in a single breath. Not one product. All of it. Huang: “The work he’s doing in Grok, self-driving cars, and Optimus. These are all world-class. Every single one of them is revolutionary. Every single one of them is going to be a gigantic opportunity.” To the public, a chatbot, a car, and a robot look like three separate bets. They are one project. The total automation of human cognition and physical labor. A digital brain. A spatial nervous system. A physical body. Musk is building all three simultaneously. Huang is supplying the compute to fuse them. Huang: “We do a lot of business with Tesla and xAI. Elon is an extraordinary engineer, and I love working with him. We’ve built some amazing computers together, and we’re going to build many more.” This is not a vendor relationship. It is the most consequential technological alliance in history and most people think it is a business partnership. Then Huang said what should end every debate about Optimus. Huang: “This is the first robot that really has a chance to achieve the high volume and technology scale necessary to advance technology.” Huang: “Right around the corner. Likely to be the next multi-trillion dollar industry.” The humanoid robot race will not be won in a research lab. It will be won on the manufacturing floor. Every other robotics company on earth can build a robot. Tesla can flood the planet with them. Because Tesla already knows how to stamp metal, build batteries, and deploy autonomous inference at global scale. The rest of the industry has prototypes. Tesla has the most sophisticated manufacturing operation on earth. When the world’s leading chipmaker calls your robot the next multi-trillion dollar industry, the debate is over. One supplies the chips. One builds everything the chips make possible. When that infrastructure scales across Grok, FSD, and Optimus simultaneously, the question stops being whether this changes everything. It becomes how fast.

Dustin

66,374 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

We have SLAM on the Robocap! 🎉 Visualized with Rerun Using NVIDIA AI Developer cuVSLAM for GPU-accelerated multicamera tracking. I basically wrote zero code myself and fully used Claude Code for this. It worked because I had so many existing examples to point to that it just wrote everything the way I would have. A few technical wins: 1. Used rattler-build from prefix.dev to package the compiled cuVSLAM CUDA binaries, which made it SUPER easy to use across repos. This also means it works on the DGX Spark (ARM64) out of the box. 2. Zero-setup experience: git clone && pixi run track-robocap auto-downloads a 100MB dataset from HuggingFace and tracks frames. 3. Real-time 3D visualization with trajectories, landmarks, pose graphs, and video playback in Rerun. Still visual-only (not visual-inertial yet), and loop closure needs some debugging. Next steps are getting this into a Gradio interface, then into daggr, and extending it to work with other datasets from exoego-forge. The last piece I'm excited about: Rerun's RRD files now support layers for incremental data. Planning to build pipelines that go from raw sensor data → slam -> human pose → depth estimation → etc. Repo here:
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We have SLAM on the Robocap! 🎉 Visualized with Rerun Using NVIDIA AI Developer cuVSLAM for GPU-accelerated multicamera tracking. I basically wrote zero code myself and fully used Claude Code for this. It worked because I had so many existing examples to point to that it just wrote everything the way I would have. A few technical wins: 1. Used rattler-build from prefix.dev to package the compiled cuVSLAM CUDA binaries, which made it SUPER easy to use across repos. This also means it works on the DGX Spark (ARM64) out of the box. 2. Zero-setup experience: git clone && pixi run track-robocap auto-downloads a 100MB dataset from HuggingFace and tracks frames. 3. Real-time 3D visualization with trajectories, landmarks, pose graphs, and video playback in Rerun. Still visual-only (not visual-inertial yet), and loop closure needs some debugging. Next steps are getting this into a Gradio interface, then into daggr, and extending it to work with other datasets from exoego-forge. The last piece I'm excited about: Rerun's RRD files now support layers for incremental data. Planning to build pipelines that go from raw sensor data → slam -> human pose → depth estimation → etc. Repo here:

Pablo Vela

50,244 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten

🔥 JUST IN: Open-source robotics dataset from 100% real-world scenarios! 🤯 Chinese robotics company AGIBOT just released AGIBOT WORLD 2026, an open-source dataset systematically covering key embodied AI research directions. Built entirely from real-world environments: commercial spaces, and homes. Collected using AGIBOT G2 robots in free-form collection mode, providing structured, accurately annotated, high-quality data. Digital twin technology creates 1:1 scale replicas in simulation matching the real environments. Both real-world and simulation data are open-sourced. The AGIBOT G2 platform collects multiple data types simultaneously: RGB(D) cameras, tactile sensors, force sensors, LiDAR, IMU, and full-body joint states. Whole-body control coordinates arms, waist, and hands for complex tasks. First-person teleoperation lets operators control the robot from its perspective. The tasks covered are fine-grained manipulation, ultra-long-horizon tasks, spatial navigation, dual-arm coordination, and multi-agent/human-robot collaboration. The dataset includes error-recovery trajectories with annotations. Most datasets only show successful demonstrations. AGIBOT includes failures and how the robot recovers, teaching models how to handle mistakes. After collection, data is tested through policy training and real-robot deployment to ensure quality. Then processed through industrial quality control with multiple screening and cleaning rounds. Making it open-source accelerates embodied AI research by giving researchers access to high-quality real-world robot data at scale. 🇨🇳 Learn more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →
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🔥 JUST IN: Open-source robotics dataset from 100% real-world scenarios! 🤯 Chinese robotics company AGIBOT just released AGIBOT WORLD 2026, an open-source dataset systematically covering key embodied AI research directions. Built entirely from real-world environments: commercial spaces, and homes. Collected using AGIBOT G2 robots in free-form collection mode, providing structured, accurately annotated, high-quality data. Digital twin technology creates 1:1 scale replicas in simulation matching the real environments. Both real-world and simulation data are open-sourced. The AGIBOT G2 platform collects multiple data types simultaneously: RGB(D) cameras, tactile sensors, force sensors, LiDAR, IMU, and full-body joint states. Whole-body control coordinates arms, waist, and hands for complex tasks. First-person teleoperation lets operators control the robot from its perspective. The tasks covered are fine-grained manipulation, ultra-long-horizon tasks, spatial navigation, dual-arm coordination, and multi-agent/human-robot collaboration. The dataset includes error-recovery trajectories with annotations. Most datasets only show successful demonstrations. AGIBOT includes failures and how the robot recovers, teaching models how to handle mistakes. After collection, data is tested through policy training and real-robot deployment to ensure quality. Then processed through industrial quality control with multiple screening and cleaning rounds. Making it open-source accelerates embodied AI research by giving researchers access to high-quality real-world robot data at scale. 🇨🇳 Learn more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

40,583 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

For robots to be useful, they must be able to interact with a wide variety of environments; and yet, scaling interaction data is difficult, expensive, and time consuming. Instead, much research revolves around sim-to-real manipulation — but mostly this has not been mobile manipulation. Recently, though, this has begun to change. Two recent papers from Tairan He and Haoru Xue show us how to unlock the potential of this technique, building policies which, without any real data at all, can move objects around in the world and open doors in the real world with a humanoid robot. Watch Episode #60 of RoboPapers now to learn more, hosted by Chris Paxton and Jiafei Duan. In this episode, we cover two papers:. First is VIRAL: Visual Sim-to-Real at Scale for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation; and second is DoorMan: Opening the Sim-to-Real Door for Humanoid Pixel-to-Action Policy Transfer.
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For robots to be useful, they must be able to interact with a wide variety of environments; and yet, scaling interaction data is difficult, expensive, and time consuming. Instead, much research revolves around sim-to-real manipulation — but mostly this has not been mobile manipulation. Recently, though, this has begun to change. Two recent papers from Tairan He and Haoru Xue show us how to unlock the potential of this technique, building policies which, without any real data at all, can move objects around in the world and open doors in the real world with a humanoid robot. Watch Episode #60 of RoboPapers now to learn more, hosted by Chris Paxton and Jiafei Duan. In this episode, we cover two papers:. First is VIRAL: Visual Sim-to-Real at Scale for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation; and second is DoorMan: Opening the Sim-to-Real Door for Humanoid Pixel-to-Action Policy Transfer.

RoboPapers

30,767 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten