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- Visitor says hundreds of Figure 03s are walking around the lab
Humanoid Scott says the robots behind the reflective glass were numerous enough to photo-bomb a group photo.
- Malik asks if Astra is plagiarizing the papers it learned from
A junior researcher's blog post on credit assignment pulled in Jitendra Malik, Chris Paxton and Chen Tessler within hours.
- Figure posts 4 straight hours of Helix 2.5 in 30 homes
Brett Adcock introduced the unedited footage by warning it was really boring, and paired it with fresh upload numbers from Figure's Index app.
- Astra 35%, Fable 15%, human teleop 100% on Pandroid robots
A controlled real-hardware benchmark put two general models on robot control, and Chris Paxton says robotics labs should be asking why it was not their models.
- Chris Paxton says Astra's spot at the top is gone
Three short posts in one day from the roboticist, and the only hard detail is who did the displacing.
- Lerrel Pinto takes a swipe at billion-dollar robot demos
He named no company and no demo, and Mahi Shafiullah replied with a quoted line and a link.
- ETH Zurich robot hand walks around on its own fingers
No wheels, no legs, no separate drive mechanism, and the power and compute ride onboard.
- RoboDojo tests GPT-6 Astra, finds a physics gap
Chris Paxton calls it an incredibly good robotics model, Chen Tessler says it has no business doing short-horizon execution.
- Grounded ships an API that turns everyday video into robot data
The company claims state of the art hand tracking under 1 cm, and Lerrel Pinto says the hard part is still turning human data into robots.
- Agility's Digit 5 drops the bird legs, claims 22.7 kg lifts
New legs, a two-finger gripper and a safety controller that can cut motor power, all of it company spec for now.
- Pi robot runs box assembly at Dandelion Chocolate
Chelsea Finn says the hard part was not the dexterous box folding, it was putting the finished boxes on the pile without knocking it over.
- Nieves streams 2,200 parcels an hour to Figure's 1,200
A rare humanoid versus incumbent comparison with a shared unit, parcels per hour on the same job.
- Lerrel Pinto sees "deep despair" as Astra zero-shots benchmarks
Chris Paxton started it, then walked part of it back within minutes.
- Astra demos hit a reproducibility wall
Three well known researchers say the viral clips look great and nobody outside the posters can repeat them.
- Robocurve raises $10M to test robot AI claims independently
The open-source evaluation harness has 97,000+ downloads in under three months, and researchers from 200+ institutions have signed up to build benchmarks.
- Pathak verified Skild's $100M ARR in person, Scott says
The number is contract-based recurring revenue, not units shipped, and it landed the same week Agility's SPAC filing showed $1.8M in revenue.
- Musk's Optimus V3 "frame by frame" line is four months old
A viral JUST IN post recycled an April earnings call quote, and the argument that followed was about whether humanoid prototypes are the hard part.
- UBTECH opens 10,000-unit Walker S factory in Liuzhou
The plant is built for robots building robots, and Chris Paxton says the robots are doing the easy part.
- ETH Zurich humanoid swings across monkey bars on raw lidar
The policy skips the terrain map entirely and feeds sparse lidar returns straight into an attention encoder.
- GPT-6 Astra beats MolmoAct2 46% to 12%, thread says
The first head-to-head number against a named robotics VLA, and the field's first reaction was to argue about the baseline.
- LIT trains robots to act first, then use vision
A two-stage recipe that keeps the action expert from latching onto backgrounds and camera angles.
- OpenArm open-sources a humanoid, CAD to teleop
Lukas Ziegler profiled the Tokyo project, which sells as a kit or prebuilt and shows no task demos.
- Astra drove a robot arm from one human video, Xiao says
A first-pass success on one task, a self-written real2sim pipeline, and a benchmark post that says the gap is still ten times.
- Kat Scott. Agility SPAC shows $1.8M revenue, $140M loss
Steve Crowe says the $300M single-customer order now needs to land sooner rather than later.