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- Paxton says end-to-end mobile manipulation ran first try on Digit v4
Two clips from the conference floor, no success rate and no task list.
- Duan posts uncut Astra footage to show how slow it is
A real-speed clip of GPT-6 Astra driving YAM arms puts latency, not capability, at the centre of the argument.
- One human demo trains any multi-fingered robot hand
A Berkeley group says one video of a person doing a task is enough to get a dexterous hand working on the real robot.
- Humanoid Scott says the hand video still has an AI tell
A clip posted with the caption "It's over" gets a frame-by-frame rebuttal from one account, and nobody else has checked the call.
- TactileStep accepted to CoRL 2026, targets foot contact
The work focuses on what happens when a humanoid foot meets the ground, not on the walking controller around it.
- Do as I Do turns plain video into robot hand data
A retargeting algorithm aimed at the part of dexterity data that usually breaks, physical validity.
- FANUC cobot takes spoken commands, trained before the arm existed
Lukas Ziegler says the team built the policy against a digital twin because the physical hardware was not available yet.
- Black Forest Labs opens FLUX 3 Action, a 7B robot model
The image model lab says its 7B open weights model beats the previous best open model by 6.1 points while running up to 3.95x faster.
- Humanoid soccer goes outdoors with no instrumentation
Pulkit Agrawal says the policy dribbles, passes, turns and scores after simulation training alone.
- Unitree G1 dribbles a soccer ball using only onboard LiDAR
No motion capture, no external tracking, and a safety tether that Hong says stays slack.
- Chelsea Finn asks what robotics' RLHF moment looks like
A new blog post argues reliability, not capability, is what stands between robot demos and robots people trust.
- Eidon AI shuts down, calls robot data market brutal
Sam Padilla is open-sourcing everything, and two people who have sold data at scale say the buyers are not there.
- Flex-pi world action model predicts 3D, not just video
A 6 billion parameter model adds geometry and object semantics to video prediction, and the authors say it needs far fewer demos.
- Berkeley and Siemens release ARLI, RL for laggy robot models
E Harrison posted the method, with Sergey Levine and Andrew Wagenmaker both amplifying it the same day.
- Astra hits 79% on RoboMME at 3.63 calls per episode
A three-tier stack puts a frontier model in the robot loop only when a small monitor says it is needed.
- Grounded Action Model beats pi-0.5 when the target changes
A robot policy built on a frozen 3D grounding backbone posts 61% average success on LIBERO-PRO, and the authors still call grounding errors an open problem.
- Humanoid Scott says Digit 5 shuffles, not walks
A clip buried in an Agility video about data security is the first look at the new robot moving under its own power.
- Figure's 237 of 420 success rate turns into a fight
Tony Zhao says failing half the time is not useful work, and two other researchers say publishing the number at all deserves credit.
- Jitendra Malik asks if Astra is plagiarizing the work it uses
A junior researcher's blog post on credit assignment pulled two senior figures into a weekend argument about who gets cited when a model does the science.
- OM-1 unplugs an Ethernet cable, and the video is 1x speed
Reward AI's new foundation model drew praise from Chris Paxton for a task most robots fumble.
- Watney raises $80M for data center robots
The company says it runs the largest fleet of dexterous robots operating around the clock in the United States, and every number in that claim is its own.
- RAI's AthenaZero throws a baseball at 113 km/h
The pitch is a stunt. The number under it is 3.97 kg of effective mass at the wrist.
- X Square's dual-arm robot is sorting parcels for Lululemon
The QUANTA X1 Pro is on a live logistics line in Wuhan, though X Square has not said how many robots or how much they move.
- Developer says his Astra harness cut a robot task to under a minute
@calixo888 posted a cup-in-cup run he says dropped from about an hour to under 60 seconds after two days of side projects.