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- Agile Robots raises $500M at an $8.5B valuation
The Munich company says it has more than 20,000 robotic systems installed, and a plant that can build 10,000 humanoids a year.
- Paxton teleoperates Feather's $33,000 semi-humanoid
He drove it by hand, which tells you about the hardware and nothing about autonomy.
- Flash ALOHA learns fast, precise tasks from 50 demos
John Yao's team skips teleoperation and has people guide the robot by hand, with paper, code and hardware posted.
- Dyna unboxed Taku at CoRL and ran it zero-shot
Chris Paxton called it probably the most impressive demo at the conference.
- Towel-folding robot reported at 99.5% success on a laundry floor
The numbers come from the company, relayed on X, with no outside verification.
- GR00T 2 runs a chemistry experiment uncut at 1x speed
Jim Fan says the clip is the first episode in a series of robot videos with no speed-up label in the corner.
- Claude's Fable 5.2 tops robot models on RoboDojo
A general model posted the win in simulation, and a head to head comparison is running at the CoRL booth.
- Gemini Robotics 2.5 kits car parts at Mercedes with 96%
Apptronik's Apollo 2 picked brackets from bulk bins on active Mercedes-Benz lines in Hungary and Germany, and DeepMind calls it a proof of concept.
- NVIDIA opens GR00T 2 weights and 100K hours of data
Jim Fan calls it an open-source buffet, and most of it is downloadable today.
- Amazon's Pick Anything grasps 66 objects with one policy
Trained on video and reinforcement learning, with no teleoperation and no wrist cameras, and it will run live at CoRL 2026.
- General AI agents beat robot VLAs in 901 head-to-head runs
RoboColosseum published the splits behind Jiafei Duan's topline, and the picture is messier than one winner.
- Jim Fan promises an uncut, autonomous robot demo today
The CoRL keynote lands at 1:45pm at the Hilton Austin, and the promise has narrowed to four words.
- Paxton waves off paper on tricking robots into stabbing
A CoRL late breaking result says corrupted camera input makes frontier models act dangerously. One well known roboticist says that proves nothing.
- Social Humanoid makes a Unitree G1 react to people, no mocap
Vongani Maluleke's framework pairs high-level social reasoning with low-level control on a Unitree G1, and Angjoo Kanazawa says this is the part robotics has not solved.
- CMU's Pixel hits 87% task progress with no teleoperation
A person wearing a 3D-printed rig is the data collection system, and for some tasks the robot never gets teleoperated at all.
- Brett Adcock posts F.03 footage, and a reply says he met them
The only outside confirmation in the thread is that the robots were walking around a conference two months ago.
- A-0 trains on 16k hours of human demos, zero robot data
One set of weights, four robots, and a dataset collected entirely by people holding a gripper.
- Machenta let the public teach its robot at King's Cross
Edward Johns took a Machenta robot into a London train station and handed the teaching over to strangers.
- NVIDIA's VFlash decodes robot actions 12x faster
The model skips token-by-token decoding because it already knows how long the answer will be.
- RoboColosseum results put Astra on top in 11,398 trials
Five VLA policies and three frontier AI agents ran in the wild, and the eval initiative says the Astra clips on X hold up at scale.
- Younghyo Park asks if heavy arms hurt robot learning
A thread framing a question the field mostly ignores, with the numbers still to come.
- Porter dares rival labs to race a 5-year-old at CoRL
Brad Porter revived Jitendra Malik's open world manipulation challenge and put one condition on showing up.
- A robot tends a whole 3D printer farm so prints never stop
The showcase comes from the builder, with no cycle times or failure rates attached.
- A playable world model runs at 50+ FPS on one RTX 5090
Jimmy Wang put his 3D World Simulator online, and Chris Paxton says the cracks in it are a data problem, not a model problem.