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We've opened the waitlist for General Robot Intelligence Development (GRID) Beta! Accelerate robotics dev with our open, free & cloud-based IDE. Zero setup needed. Develop & deploy advanced skills with foundation models and rapid prototyping 🔗: 🧵(1/6)

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Scaled Foundations2 years ago

GRID supports a wide range of robot form factors and sensors/modalities (RGB, depth, lidar, GPS, IMU and more) coupled with mapping and navigation for comprehensive and physically accurate sensorimotor development. (2/6)

Scaled Foundations2 years ago

Curate data to train Robotics Foundation Models at scale with GRID. Create thousands of scenarios, across form factors, and robustly test model performance on both sim and real data. (3/6)

Scaled Foundations2 years ago

GRID's LLM-based orchestration leverages foundation models to integrate various modalities, enabling robust sensorimotor capabilities, such as multimodal perception, generative modeling, and navigation, with zero-shot generalization to new scenarios. (4/6)

Scaled Foundations2 years ago

Develop in sim, export and deploy skills on real robots in hours instead of months! GRID enables safe & efficient deployment of trained models on real robots, ensuring reliable performance in real-world scenarios. Example of safe exploration on the Robomaster & Go2: (5/6)

Scaled Foundations2 years ago

Enable your robots to be useful with seamless access to foundation models, simulations and AI tools. Sign up for GRID Beta today and experience the future of robotics development! Docs: (6/6)

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Sai Vemprala

277,299 views • 2 years ago

Today we are excited to open up Neuracore to the academic community! Neuracore is a new data foundation built to accelerate robot learning by removing one of the field’s biggest bottlenecks: capturing and working with high-fidelity multimodal robotics data. For the first time, researchers can store, view, and work with robotics data in a cloud-native system built specifically for large-scale learning, and we are making this core platform completely free for academia. The platform lets teams capture every sensor at its native rate, store and visualize data without loss, and then train and deploy models locally using our open-source code (Link in the comments). We are rolling out access to select academic institutions first. Anyone with an academic email can sign up, and if your institution is not part of the initial rollout, you will be able to join the waitlist directly. Beyond providing this infrastructure, we see an opportunity to build a global community where engineers and researchers can share, collaborate, and advance the frontier of robot learning together. Supported by our recent $3M pre-seed round led by Earlybird VC, we are excited to take this mission even further. Our long-term goal is for Neuracore to become the natural home for cutting-edge robot learning algorithms and real-world robotics experimentation, helping accelerate the next wave of Physical AI.

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Neuracore

40,620 views • 7 months ago

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Johannes Landgraf

26,082 views • 1 year ago

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Tether

592,560 views • 1 month ago

Karol Hausman is the co-founder and CEO of Physical Intelligence, a robotics company building a general-purpose “AI brain for the physical world.” The company has raised more than $1 billion in funding to develop foundation models that allow robots to operate across many machines, environments, and tasks rather than being programmed for a single purpose. In our conversation, we explore: • The moment a lecture from Sergey Levine convinced him to abandon his PhD research direction and pivot fully to deep learning • The case for building a general “AI brain” for the physical world rather than a single specialized robot • The role of real-world data in training robots, the limits of simulation, and how deployment could create a powerful data flywheel • The unique challenges of physical intelligence and why robots must operate with far higher reliability than language models Thank you to the partners who make this possible - Brex: The intelligent finance platform: - Granola: The app that might actually make you love meetings: Timestamps (00:00) Intro (04:05) Karol’s early fascination with robots (18:21) Karol’s entry point to robotics and PhD program (25:49) Combining robotics with LLMs: The Taylor Swift demo (30:48) The 1970s SHRDLU AI experiment (39:40) How research shapes what Physical Intelligence builds (49:07) The return of reinforcement learning in robotics (1:00:00) NVIDIA’s simulation engines (1:07:31) Compensating for missing senses

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Mario Gabriele 🦊

27,871 views • 4 months ago

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Philipp Schmid

34,754 views • 1 year ago

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Y Combinator

115,590 views • 3 months ago

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465,968 views • 1 year ago

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Or Hiltch

103,262 views • 3 months ago

LeRobot v0.6.0 is officially here: Imagine, Evaluate, Improve! 🤖🚀 We are closing the robot learning loop with massive upgrades for the open-source robotics community. From policies that imagine the future to a much leaner installation, here is what is new: - 🌍 World Models: VLA-JEPA, LingBot-VA, and FastWAM help your policies anticipate the future. - 👀 VLA Expansion: Welcome GR00T 1.7, MolmoAct2, EO-1, Multitask DiT, and EVO1. - 🏅 Reward Models API: Track success seamlessly with Robometer and TOPReward. - 🎯 Unified Evaluation: 6 new simulation benchmarks, all accessible via the lerobot-eval CLI. - ☁️ And more: lerobot-rollout CLI for DAgger corrections, HF Jobs cloud training, up to 2x faster data loading, GUI - LeLab, many docs improvements Ready to build the future of robotics? Dive into the full release notes here: clem 🤗 Thomas Wolf

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50,524 views • 12 days ago

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My conversation with Sergey Levine (Sergey Levine). Sergey is the co-founder of Physical Intelligence -- a company building foundation models that can control any robot to do any task in any environment. The company's thesis is that generality is more scalable than specialization, meaning that a model trained across many different robots and tasks will ultimately outperform any system built to do one thing well (eg, just wash dishes). Sergey is a researcher by background, but I think you will appreciate how practical and commercially grounded this conversation is. We discuss: - Why changing a diaper will be the last task a robot masters - The simulation v. real-world data debate - How multimodal LLMs give robots common sense - Moravec's Paradox + Robot Olympics - Why robots can do long-horizon tasks now - A realistic timeline for robots in our homes I should note that I am an investor in Physical Intelligence -- I made the investment because I believe it is one of the most important companies tackling the problem of robotics. Enjoy! Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 2:39 Defining Physical Intelligence 5:19 The Challenge of Building General Models 6:34 The Stakes and Future of General Purpose Robotics 8:15 Pros and Cons of Humanoid Robots 10:12 Historical Milestones in Robotics Research 15:31 Combining Generative AI and Deep RL 21:24 Moravec's Paradox 25:33 Kitchen Robots 29:30 Simulation vs. Real-World Data 30:48 The Robot Olympics 36:31 The Physiological Reality of Embodiment 38:56 Controversies in the Robotics Community 44:18 What Makes a Great Researcher 48:27 How Businesses Should Prepare for Robotics 54:09 Tracking Progress Through Research Papers 57:02 The Next Step: Mid-Level Reasoning 1:02:00 The Kindest Thing

Patrick OShaughnessy

133,833 views • 3 months ago

The power of generative models — now embodied in humanoids. Announcing DreamControl –– After a year-long research effort at General Robotics — we present a scalable framework for whole-body humanoid control that fuses diffusion priors with reinforcement learning to unlock real-world scene interaction. Diffusion + RL → natural whole-body skills on real robots. DreamControl enables humanoids to move beyond locomotion demos → performing natural, human-like skills such as –– Picking & lifting objects, Opening drawers & doors, Precise punching, kicking, and jumping, Bimanual manipulation tasks Our key innovation: a diffusion prior over human motion that guides RL, eliminating the need for massive teleoperation datasets, and producing motions that look human while transferring to real hardware. Trained purely in simulation, deployed on the Unitree G1 humanoid, DreamControl policies run in real time, bridging sim-to-real with unprecedented naturalness. We leverage a novel hybrid edge + cloud infrastructure that runs RL-trained policies on the edge backed by powerful AI models running in the cloud This is the next step in General Robotics’ journey toward general-purpose humanoid assistants that interact, adapt, and assist autonomously. Paper: Blog: 1/n

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Ashish Kapoor

118,133 views • 10 months ago

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Kimi.ai

557,369 views • 1 month ago

1/🧠Humans are the best robot data source — but video alone misses one thing: force. 2/🙁Tactile gloves capture force — but they're costly and block the real touch manipulation depends on. 3/💪Maybe the future of touch lives on your wrist: surface EMG reads the muscles that cause force — tactile sensing without ever touching a tactile sensor. 4/🔥Want a fully open-source framework — hardware + software — to train your own force-aware learn-from-human-data robot policy? 🚀We introduce ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG -- bring force into human videos with sEMG, for force-aware manipulation ⬇️ ✦ Zero-Shot Human-to-Robot Transfer ✦ Force Beyond Vision ✦ Free-Hand Force Sensing ✦ Collect by Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere ✦ Deploy on Any Robot, Any Camera, Any Environment ✦ Open-Source & Low-Cost & Easy-to-Implement Let's squeeze every bit of signal out of human data, and let robots feel the force! 🌐 Website: 📄 Paper: 💻 Code: 🎥 Video: 🧵 1/n

1/🧠Humans are the best robot data source — but video alone misses one thing: force. 2/🙁Tactile gloves capture force — but they're costly and block the real touch manipulation depends on. 3/💪Maybe the future of touch lives on your wrist: surface EMG reads the muscles that cause force — tactile sensing without ever touching a tactile sensor. 4/🔥Want a fully open-source framework — hardware + software — to train your own force-aware learn-from-human-data robot policy? 🚀We introduce ForceBand: Learning Forceful Manipulation with sEMG -- bring force into human videos with sEMG, for force-aware manipulation ⬇️ ✦ Zero-Shot Human-to-Robot Transfer ✦ Force Beyond Vision ✦ Free-Hand Force Sensing ✦ Collect by Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere ✦ Deploy on Any Robot, Any Camera, Any Environment ✦ Open-Source & Low-Cost & Easy-to-Implement Let's squeeze every bit of signal out of human data, and let robots feel the force! 🌐 Website: 📄 Paper: 💻 Code: 🎥 Video: 🧵 1/n

Zhi (Leo) Wang

49,738 views • 23 days ago

A CHINESE LAB VISUALIZED 2,000 NEURONS AND 1,191,000 SYNAPSES IN 3D. HERMES AGENT HIT 140,000 STARS RUNNING THE SAME NETWORK LOCALLY FOR $0 hermes is the first agent that writes its own skills from experience. complete a task once and it saves the procedure as a markdown file for next time agents with 20+ self-created skills complete similar tasks 40% faster than fresh instances. less time and less tokens to get the same result qwen 3.6 35b outperforms last year's 120b models and runs on 20gb of memory. the intelligence that needed a data center now fits on your desk setup takes 30 minutes. install lm studio, pull qwen 3.6, install hermes, point it at localhost. zero api fees, zero data leaving your machine most people pay for cloud agents that forget everything between sessions. the ones running hermes locally in 2026 will look very far ahead in 2028 bookmark this and read the article below

A CHINESE LAB VISUALIZED 2,000 NEURONS AND 1,191,000 SYNAPSES IN 3D. HERMES AGENT HIT 140,000 STARS RUNNING THE SAME NETWORK LOCALLY FOR $0 hermes is the first agent that writes its own skills from experience. complete a task once and it saves the procedure as a markdown file for next time agents with 20+ self-created skills complete similar tasks 40% faster than fresh instances. less time and less tokens to get the same result qwen 3.6 35b outperforms last year's 120b models and runs on 20gb of memory. the intelligence that needed a data center now fits on your desk setup takes 30 minutes. install lm studio, pull qwen 3.6, install hermes, point it at localhost. zero api fees, zero data leaving your machine most people pay for cloud agents that forget everything between sessions. the ones running hermes locally in 2026 will look very far ahead in 2028 bookmark this and read the article below

starmex

13,420 views • 1 month ago

China unveils humanoid robot with lifelike skin and blinking eyes built for daily life | Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) help process and interpret complex data from human interactions. A Shanghai-based company has developed humanoid robots that appear as real as humans. The advanced bionic humanoid robot is integrated with self-supervised AI algorithms. Named Elf V1, the robot can perceive the world, communicate, learn, and interact intelligently with its surroundings. Developed by AheadForm Technology, the robot offers up to 30 degrees of freedom, powered by a precise control system and an advanced AI learning algorithm. Robot offers expressive facial features The robot offers expressive facial features, moving eyes, and synchronized speech. It can also convey emotions and understand human non-verbal cues, making interactions more natural and engaging. The robot has highly interactive capabilities and lifelike appearances. AheadForm expects that its robots could soon seamlessly integrate into daily life, providing assistance, companionship, and support across various industries. “We believe that by developing realistic and expressive robot heads, we can bridge the gap between humans and machines, fostering a new era of interactive and intelligent robotics,” said the company in a statement. Reports revealed that to avoid the “uncanny valley” effect and be able to interact with us, they are given lifelike skin and capabilities to read our emotions and respond appropriately using dynamic expression simulation and emotion generation tech. Bionic skin and high-precision control system The Elf V1 series of humanoids features 30 facial muscles animated by brushless micro-motors and managed by a high-precision control system. Paired with an ability to detect their users’ emotions with low latency and bionic skin, their facial expressions are nearly identical to those of humans, reported CGTN. The company claims it’s pioneering the development of realistic humanoid robots designed to revolutionize human-robot interaction. It’s enhancing sophisticated humanoid robot heads that can express emotions, perceive their environment, and interact seamlessly with humans. By combining cutting-edge AI and advanced robotics, AheadForm aims to bring life to machines and transform how humans engage with technology. AI models boost robots’ responsiveness Seamless integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) into the humanoid robots can help them process and interpret complex data from human interactions, enabling the robot to learn and adapt in real-time, achieving human-level understanding and responsiveness. AheadForm uses Brushless Motors that deliver ultra-quiet operation and high responsiveness, specifically designed for precision facial movements in humanoid robots. With its compact size, lightweight design, and energy efficiency, this motor is the ideal choice for next-generation robots that require precise, subtle facial control to create a truly human-like experience. Previously, the company unveiled the Lan Series that features realistic humanoid robots with soft skin and 10 degrees of freedom, offering a lifelike appearance and intuitive movements. This series is designed for cost-efficiency, for applications prioritizing mobility and manipulation.

China unveils humanoid robot with lifelike skin and blinking eyes built for daily life | Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) help process and interpret complex data from human interactions. A Shanghai-based company has developed humanoid robots that appear as real as humans. The advanced bionic humanoid robot is integrated with self-supervised AI algorithms. Named Elf V1, the robot can perceive the world, communicate, learn, and interact intelligently with its surroundings. Developed by AheadForm Technology, the robot offers up to 30 degrees of freedom, powered by a precise control system and an advanced AI learning algorithm. Robot offers expressive facial features The robot offers expressive facial features, moving eyes, and synchronized speech. It can also convey emotions and understand human non-verbal cues, making interactions more natural and engaging. The robot has highly interactive capabilities and lifelike appearances. AheadForm expects that its robots could soon seamlessly integrate into daily life, providing assistance, companionship, and support across various industries. “We believe that by developing realistic and expressive robot heads, we can bridge the gap between humans and machines, fostering a new era of interactive and intelligent robotics,” said the company in a statement. Reports revealed that to avoid the “uncanny valley” effect and be able to interact with us, they are given lifelike skin and capabilities to read our emotions and respond appropriately using dynamic expression simulation and emotion generation tech. Bionic skin and high-precision control system The Elf V1 series of humanoids features 30 facial muscles animated by brushless micro-motors and managed by a high-precision control system. Paired with an ability to detect their users’ emotions with low latency and bionic skin, their facial expressions are nearly identical to those of humans, reported CGTN. The company claims it’s pioneering the development of realistic humanoid robots designed to revolutionize human-robot interaction. It’s enhancing sophisticated humanoid robot heads that can express emotions, perceive their environment, and interact seamlessly with humans. By combining cutting-edge AI and advanced robotics, AheadForm aims to bring life to machines and transform how humans engage with technology. AI models boost robots’ responsiveness Seamless integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) into the humanoid robots can help them process and interpret complex data from human interactions, enabling the robot to learn and adapt in real-time, achieving human-level understanding and responsiveness. AheadForm uses Brushless Motors that deliver ultra-quiet operation and high responsiveness, specifically designed for precision facial movements in humanoid robots. With its compact size, lightweight design, and energy efficiency, this motor is the ideal choice for next-generation robots that require precise, subtle facial control to create a truly human-like experience. Previously, the company unveiled the Lan Series that features realistic humanoid robots with soft skin and 10 degrees of freedom, offering a lifelike appearance and intuitive movements. This series is designed for cost-efficiency, for applications prioritizing mobility and manipulation.

Owen Gregorian

179,005 views • 9 months ago

Foundation models reach their full potential when paired with data at planetary scale. By combining the capabilities of Google Earth AI imagery models with the scale, depth, and quality of Vantor’s satellite imagery, Vantor customers can rapidly unlock complex, high-value use cases. Running Earth AI embedding models on Vantor’s 30 cm-class satellite imagery allows analysts to instantly surface visually similar features, patterns, and objects across massive datasets. A single reference image becomes a search query. From there, the system can: • Identify similar vessels across thousands of square kilometers • Detect infrastructure patterns at scale • Accelerate damage assessment workflows • Narrow broad-area searches before human review Our agreement with Google marks the first commercial deployment of Earth AI imagery models against a dataset offering global 2D coverage of virtually all landmass, global-scale 3D terrain, a 20+ year high-resolution archive, and constellation revisit rates of up to 15 times per day. That combination matters. When advanced imagery models are applied to a globally consistent, temporally deep, and geometrically precise spatial foundation, insight shifts from experimental to operational. And when deployed within sovereign, air-gapped environments, these capabilities move beyond cloud-based analytics to deliver mission-ready intelligence. Learn more:

Foundation models reach their full potential when paired with data at planetary scale. By combining the capabilities of Google Earth AI imagery models with the scale, depth, and quality of Vantor’s satellite imagery, Vantor customers can rapidly unlock complex, high-value use cases. Running Earth AI embedding models on Vantor’s 30 cm-class satellite imagery allows analysts to instantly surface visually similar features, patterns, and objects across massive datasets. A single reference image becomes a search query. From there, the system can: • Identify similar vessels across thousands of square kilometers • Detect infrastructure patterns at scale • Accelerate damage assessment workflows • Narrow broad-area searches before human review Our agreement with Google marks the first commercial deployment of Earth AI imagery models against a dataset offering global 2D coverage of virtually all landmass, global-scale 3D terrain, a 20+ year high-resolution archive, and constellation revisit rates of up to 15 times per day. That combination matters. When advanced imagery models are applied to a globally consistent, temporally deep, and geometrically precise spatial foundation, insight shifts from experimental to operational. And when deployed within sovereign, air-gapped environments, these capabilities move beyond cloud-based analytics to deliver mission-ready intelligence. Learn more:

Vantor

17,050 views • 4 months ago

OpenAI and Anthropic news roundup (Week 18, 2026) OpenAI open-sourced Symphony spec for Codex orchestration, published "Our principles" post, announced amended Microsoft partnership, achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization, posted commitment to community safety, brought OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents to AWS, shared cybersecurity action plan, posted Stargate compute infrastructure update, published "Where the goblins came from" post, posted Auto-review write-up for Codex, introduced Advanced Account Security, announced DevDay 2026, repositioned Codex as personal assistant for everyday work, launched Codex setup import, added Codex pets, announced GPT-5.5 party for next week, shared GPT-5.5 one-week launch metrics, and rolled out 360 worlds in ChatGPT Images on web, plus discovered Custom dictionary feature in development, ChatGPT search EU recipient numbers, confirmed new model selector in composer, and updated privacy policy with marketing cookies on by default for free users Anthropic opened Sydney office with new General Manager, launched Claude for Creative Work with new connectors, Claude Code can now send push notifications to your phone, published Introspection Adapters research, BioMysteryBench evaluation, "How people ask Claude for personal guidance" study, launched Claude Security in public beta, and preparing for Code with Claude developer conference next week, plus discovered "Cardinal" stats feature in development and internal red teaming for Claude Jupiter V1 P, and more

OpenAI and Anthropic news roundup (Week 18, 2026) OpenAI open-sourced Symphony spec for Codex orchestration, published "Our principles" post, announced amended Microsoft partnership, achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization, posted commitment to community safety, brought OpenAI models, Codex, and Managed Agents to AWS, shared cybersecurity action plan, posted Stargate compute infrastructure update, published "Where the goblins came from" post, posted Auto-review write-up for Codex, introduced Advanced Account Security, announced DevDay 2026, repositioned Codex as personal assistant for everyday work, launched Codex setup import, added Codex pets, announced GPT-5.5 party for next week, shared GPT-5.5 one-week launch metrics, and rolled out 360 worlds in ChatGPT Images on web, plus discovered Custom dictionary feature in development, ChatGPT search EU recipient numbers, confirmed new model selector in composer, and updated privacy policy with marketing cookies on by default for free users Anthropic opened Sydney office with new General Manager, launched Claude for Creative Work with new connectors, Claude Code can now send push notifications to your phone, published Introspection Adapters research, BioMysteryBench evaluation, "How people ask Claude for personal guidance" study, launched Claude Security in public beta, and preparing for Code with Claude developer conference next week, plus discovered "Cardinal" stats feature in development and internal red teaming for Claude Jupiter V1 P, and more

Tibor Blaho

12,254 views • 2 months ago