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PLA Humanoid Robot Deployment: China's Military Push
China's PLA is actively procuring and testing humanoid robots for battlefield roles, with documented tenders, academic forums, and a $300K data pipeline budget.
Read →Kinetix AI Raises 500M Yuan With 117-DoF Humanoid
Kinetix AI closes 500M yuan angel-plus round for its 117-DoF humanoid and 37-DoF dexterous hand.
Read →JoyIn Sues OpenAI Over Humanoid Robot AI Plagiarism
Ant Group-backed JoyIn accuses OpenAI of copying its humanoid robot AI tech, claims 90% first-attempt task success rate.
Read →CAP Fixes Humanoid Depth Sensor Failures Mid-Walk
CAP paper proposes a single-stage denoising policy that handles corrupted depth on the Unitree G1 without switching sub-policies.
Read →FARM Reads Failure Signals from Frozen World Models
FARM's 33,985-parameter readout hits 85.68 AUROC on failure detection using only frozen VLA-JEPA states.
Read →Wheeled Humanoid Motion Retargeting via 21-DOF Policy
New pipeline converts SMPLX human motion into executable loco-manipulation for the Galaxea R1 Pro wheeled humanoid using a 21-dim policy.
Read →HuRo Dataset: 630K Episodes Lift VLA Task Completion to 80%
HuRo converts 630K human video episodes into robot training data, lifting VLA task completion from 51.5% to 80.3%.
Read →IMLE-VLA Hits 55 Hz with Single-Step Action Generation
IMLE-VLA replaces diffusion's iterative sampling with single-step cIMLE, hitting 55 Hz and 98.0% on LIBERO.
Read →Disentangling Habit From Physics in Robot World Models
New causal framework separates operator habit, physics, and observation noise in robot world models to improve low-shot transfer.
Read →HaWMPO Cuts VLA Hallucinations, Lifts G1 Success 12.5pts
HaWMPO scores +15% on LIBERO and lifts Unitree G1 manipulation success from 67.5% to 80%.
Read →RoboDrop Lifts VLA Robot Success Rate from 35% to 67.5%
RoboDrop uses gradient compatibility to filter bad robot demos, lifting real-robot rollout success from 35% to 67.5%.
Read →ViBe Adds Vision to Humanoid Motion Trackers
ViBe grafts pre-trained visual encoders onto motion trackers via low-rank adapters, enabling zero-shot sim-to-real transfer across four perceptive tasks.
Read →OpenAI Enters Humanoid Robotics vs Tesla Optimus
Sam Altman confirms OpenAI enters humanoid robotics, backed by a $6.5B hardware acquisition and relaunched robotics division.
Read →TANGO: 29-DoF Whole-Body VLA Navigates Cluttered Rooms
TANGO predicts 29-DoF joint actions from language and egocentric RGB, zero-shot transferring to a Unitree G1 in real cluttered spaces.
Read →XPeng IRON Hits Production Line as Optimus Slips to 2027
XPeng's IRON begins production in Guangzhou with 76 DOF and 2,250 TOPS onboard. Tesla Optimus commercial sales now slip to H2 2027.
Read →FailureSpot Targets VLA Failure Detection with Less Data
FailureSpot uses weak supervision and active learning to catch VLA policy failures at the exact timestep they occur.
Read →LIBERO-RECOVER: 1,000+ Scenarios Expose VLA Model Blind Spot
New LIBERO-RECOVER benchmark reveals near-100% task success rates hide a critical failure recovery gap in VLA models.
Read →VLA-Precision Hits 98.3% Success in 45.8 Min/Task
VLA-Precision framework hits 98.3% mean success on 9 precision tasks across 4 robot embodiments using online RL.
Read →26 Million Humanoid Robots Per Year by 2040: Berg Insight
Berg Insight forecasts humanoid shipments hitting 26M units/year by 2040, up from 16,000 in 2026 — a 63.7% CAGR.
Read →BRIDGE: 88cm Open-Source Humanoid Built for Human Motion
CMU researchers release BRIDGE, an 88cm open-source humanoid built via morphology-control co-design to maximize human motion fidelity.
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