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      <title><![CDATA[CLIFT Pushes Gemini Robotics to Near-Perfect Task Mastery]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[CLIFT achieves near-perfect humanoid task success in two flywheel cycles using only a closed API — no model weights needed.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Event Camera Teleoperation Hits 23ms Latency on 18-DoF Humanoid]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Neuromorphic event camera achieves 23–34ms photon-to-action latency on 18-DoF humanoid upper-body in sub-5-lux and HDR conditions.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[FibVLA Uses Fibonacci Sampling to Fix VLA Efficiency]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[FibVLA applies Fibonacci recurrent inference and logarithmic sampling to cut VLA latency without retraining visual encoders.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[WCM Solves VLA Critic's Temporal Blind Spot]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[WCM adds temporal world modeling to VLA critics, beating baselines on 149 tasks across four benchmarks.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[End-Effector Traces Boost Cross-Embodiment Transfer 28%]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Stanford researchers show end-effector traces in VLA models improve sim-to-real cross-embodiment transfer by 28% on real robot tasks.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[DexDirect Hits 90% Success Rate with 17x Demo Gains]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[DexDirect collects 17.2x more successful demos than vision-only baselines, hitting 90% policy success on cube pick-and-place.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[RoboBRIDGE Wraps VLAs in a 5-Module Recovery Layer]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[RoboBRIDGE adds failure recovery, replanning, and LoRA-based domain adaptation on top of any pretrained VLA.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Analytic Concepts Give VLA Models 3D Kinematic Guidance]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[New Concept Expert module injects explicit 3D kinematic blueprints into VLA post-training, improving success rate across RL and supervised settings.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[CheckVLA Beats Periodic Replanning by 8.5 Points]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[CheckVLA's action-conditioned world model hits 36.1% success vs 27.6% for periodic replanning on RoboCasa365.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Speech2Grasp Cuts Latency for Voice-Commanded Robot Grasping]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Speech2Grasp transfers text-conditioned grasp models to direct speech input, beating ASR pipelines on latency in real humanoid tests.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[IDR Framework Fixes VLA Modality Fusion at Test Time]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Researchers propose IDR, a training-free, model-agnostic framework that dynamically adjusts visual importance in VLA models at test time.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Legacy Robot Data Helps Only After a Transfer Threshold]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[New research shows legacy robot data is useless—then suddenly essential—following a grokking-like transfer threshold.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[SAM3D Boosts π0 VLA to 99.1% on LIBERO Benchmark]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[SAM3D-guided 3D alignment lifts π0 to 99.1% on LIBERO and 4.11 avg length on CALVIN—no depth sensors at inference.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[TriManPolicy Solves Three-Arm Teleoperation Data Gap]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[TriManPolicy and DATS scheduling let one operator generate synchronized three-arm training data without artificial delays.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[AMD ROCm Powers VLA Humanoid Training Without CUDA]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[AMD ROCm pipeline trains and deploys VLA manipulation policies on humanoids without NVIDIA CUDA.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[ARCHITECT Beats VLAs With Modular Code Synthesis]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[ARCHITECT outperforms VLA models on long-horizon tasks by treating policy learning as interactive code synthesis.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[FutureRTC Fixes VLA Timing Gaps Without Retraining]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[FutureRTC solves VLA inter-chunk discontinuities via anticipatory observation prediction, no policy retraining required.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tactile Glove Artifacts Cut 18.3% by Pose-Aware Model]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[New pose-aware framework cuts tactile glove minimum detectable force by up to 18.3% across 3 glove designs and 15 users.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[WCM Hits 73.8% Success Rate on 9 HRI Tasks]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[WCM's SLAK architecture achieves 73.8% success across 9 real-world HRI tasks, with a human-in-the-loop teaching mode for long-horizon tasks.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[DynaMAC Beats Baselines by 35pts on Bimanual Tasks]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[DynaMAC outperforms leading baselines by 35+ points on bimanual tasks while needing 20x fewer training samples.]]></description>
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