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- Bleu humanoid learned machine tending from six demos
A trade show deployment with a real laser engraver in the loop, reported by one person who posted the numbers.
- Michael Black says Astra made his ECCV paper obsolete
A senior vision researcher argues any paper at this year's conference is two years out of date, and Danfei Xu says robotics is next.
- Chris Paxton calls Ultra and Digit clips teleop
Two impressive manipulation videos landed the same day, and a researcher who works on one of the policies said a human was steering.
- Figure commits $3.5B to Nscale for up to 100,000 GPUs
Brett Adcock says the compute goes to scaling Helix, and that Figure has entered the chapter of the humanoid race money can buy.
- GPT-6 Astra hits 95% on a robot arm task, Chooi says
The model wrote end-effector poses directly, with no VLA in the loop, and researchers are already arguing about whether that is the cheap way to do it.
- Malik dares LLM robotics fans to control a legged robot
A public challenge over whether a token-generating model belongs anywhere near a robot's control loop.
- Lightwheel drops 100,000 hours of first-person video
Two bets on the robot data shortage landed in the same week, one open and one paid.
- Huy Ha's Transformer Transformer designs a robot per task
The CoRL 2026 paper generates a full robot body and its controller from a target motion, and the team says the design was checked on real hardware.
- OopsieData hits 15k robot episodes from 54 labs
The shared pool of real-world manipulation rollouts keeps the messy runs most datasets throw away.
- Unitree says its humanoids now fight fully autonomously
The claim is Unitree's own, and nobody in the sources has checked it yet.