Models for physical AI tasks, such as robotics and autonomous driving, need not reason solely in language. They can use visual plans--points, bounding boxes, and trajectories--to represent spatial goals and anticipate motion. However, autoregressive vision-language models…
A robot cleaned my apartment for $30 — San Francisco startup Tau Robotics is sending humanoid robots into people's homes, piloted remotely by humans who collect training data while the robots clean — making the service cheaper than you'd expect for something…
The ChinaTalk team is going to CoRL (the Conference on Robot Learning) in Austin! Reply to this email if you’d like to hang out between November 9th and 12th. We’re also doing karaoke on the 11th — RSVP here if you’d like to join! Ukraine and Russia have…
RoboColosseum evaluates general robot policies across diverse embodiments and environments, revealing weak cross-embodiment agreement, limited open-world reliability, and substantial differences between zero-shot and fine-tuned performance.
闪猫造物Flashduck — an open-source ESP32-S3 desktop duck robot with six servos, a single animated eye, wide-stance walking and two interaction systems (voice assistant / DuckClaw local agent).
SLA is a spatial-language-action model that continually pre-trains and post-trains a pretrained VLA policy with spatial alignment to a frozen 3D perception model, using feature-dependent gates and probabilistic state dropout to improve spatial understanding across diverse robot…
Uni-robot-agent enables open-weight robot-use agents to surpass proprietary models in zero-shot manipulation and suggests joint development of four core capabilities for future training.
Humanoid robots remain unproven at scale and have not yet achieved widespread commercialization, compared with industrial robots that have decades of proven track records in warehouses and factories. That frank acknowledgment is among the risks outlined in a…
A coding agent automates robot demonstration generation by simulating tasks, rendering photorealistic videos, and producing deployable training data at lower cost than teleoperation.
Robots developed by Chinese humanoid maker Unitree Robotics can now paint pictures and play chess without any prior training, relying on frontier AI models to navigate complex physical tasks, according to founder and CEO Wang Xingxing. Speaking on Thursday…
China’s state planner has told Japanese investor SoftBank it will not allow the US$5.4 billion acquisition of the robotics segment of engineering group ABB to go ahead, the Swiss firm said on Thursday. The case marks the second major deal blocked by China…
For autonomous vehicles, the hardest lessons to learn are the ones that can test the skills of even the most experienced human drivers: an errant cyclist darting through a red light, or an animal bolting into oncoming traffic from behind a corner. The…
Russian tech companies are scrambling to harden and hide their data centers underground after Ukrainian drone strikes damaged facilities housing AI supercomputers and disrupted cloud services for millions of Russian users. Meanwhile, the Kremlin is requiring…
