Workhorse: a G1 humanoid learns from humans, no teleop
A Unitree G1 topples and climbs a suitcase, catches a thrown box and kicks boxes into place, learned from human demos with no teleoperation. Meanwhile Chris Paxton says neither Figure nor Optimus can lift what a warehouse worker lifts every day.
Shown this week
Workhorse teaches a G1 humanoid whole-body skills straight from human video
Songbo Hu and Qiayuan Liao released Workhorse, a method for learning whole-body loco-manipulation from human demonstrations with no robot teleop (a human driving it remotely) and no retargeting. On a Unitree G1 it topples and climbs a suitcase, catches a thrown box, and sorts boxes using hands and a kick.
we tried everything to make it fail🏒
RPG robot watches a demo, practices in sim, scores 30 of 30
Yen-Jen Wang introduced RPG, a real-to-sim-to-real pipeline (rebuild the task in simulation, train, then run it on hardware) that turns a single real demonstration into targeted practice and keeps updating a shared skill set from its failures.
Teleop and other arguments
Paxton: Figure and Optimus cannot lift what warehouse workers lift
Chris Paxton says there are very few heavy-industry humanoids and that neither Figure nor Optimus is strong enough for work that needs a roughly 50 lb payload, the standard OSHA limit for manual material handling.
So if you want a heavy humanoid today, you literally only have American options