GR00T 2 runs a chemistry experiment, uncut at 1x
Jim Fan put GR00T 2 on real dexterous hands and let it run a chemistry lab experiment end to end with no speedup label in the corner. Two other long-horizon demos landed the same week, and one of them comes with a 99.5% success number.
Shown this week
GR00T 2 runs a chemistry experiment end to end, uncut at 1x speed
Jim Fan posted video of GR00T 2 controlling real dexterous hands through a chemistry lab experiment end to end, then cleaning up after itself, which he says is autonomous, uncut and at 1x speed. He calls it episode one of a series of real-time robot videos with none of the "4x" or "8x" labels in the corner.
No one can speed up reality, except Dr. Strange ;)
Dyna unboxed Taku at CoRL and ran it with no on-site training
Dyna Robotics says it unboxed its Taku robot at CoRL and had it do long-horizon, whole-body mobile manipulation zero-shot, with no on-site data collection or post-training. The model driving it is Dyna-2.1, and the robot is running live at Booth 500 in Griffin Hall. Chris Paxton called it probably the most impressive demo at the conference.
Long horizon mobile manipulation is what separates demos from real deployments
Gobaino reports a towel-folding robot at 99.5% success on a laundry floor
Lukas Ziegler flagged Gobaino, a Nantes and London team running an autonomous towel-folding station on a real laundry floor, reporting 99.5% task success and 68% of a human worker's throughput over an 18-hour shift.