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- Figure built a secret home inside HQ to test its new model
Brett Adcock says the test house is called Blackbox, and that Figure's newest model is "baby AGI".
- MEMI hits 97% on RoboMME by inferring what robots remember
Demos show what a robot did, not what it kept in mind. MEMI works backwards from the actions.
- Seeed open-sources reBot-DevArm, down to every screw
Lukas Ziegler flagged a desktop arm released with hardware blueprints, a full parts list and SDK support, though the specs are the vendor's own.
- Eka's numbers land, 1,500 picks an hour per robot
A robotics roundup attaches performance figures and a valuation to Eka's raise, and nobody outside the company has checked them.
- Figure lines up three generations of its humanoid
One line of text, one clip, and nothing else to go on.
- COWBOY grasps in the wild after sim-only training
One policy drives base, arm, dexterous hand and active vision together, with no real-robot fine-tuning.
- Figure's F.03 passes 13 days of treadmill walking
Brett Adcock says the humanoid started walking as a side project to shake out failures and has not stopped.
- Chris Paxton says DynaRobotics' Taku handed him a drink
A named robotics researcher stopped by the company on the way to the airport and came away saying the robot is real.
- Quanting Xie's S1 glove records touch and video together
A data collection device aimed at the question of what a million hours of human demonstrations should actually contain.
- New benchmark runs coding agents on 1,090 embodied tasks
Manling Li's Embodied First Exam covers 31 simulation suites and 44 robots, and there are no scores yet.
- Eka raises $150M for a force-feeling robot model
The MIT professor's manipulation startup is betting that touch, not language, is the missing input.
- Jim Fan open-sources Flora, a robot video labeling engine
The models already label 200,000 hours of video a day and feed NVIDIA GR00T training.
- Navy contract with Gecko Robotics quadruples to $300M
The inspection robotics company says the fourfold expansion covers rapid robotic deployment across the fleet.
- Researchers call AlphaNIST a sim2real first
Octi Zhang's single policy learned assembly from a binary reward, and the field is now arguing about what it proves.
- Gemini's cornhole streak came after 18 throws, engineer says
The engineer behind the demo walked through every throw, from a dropped bag to six swishes in a row.
- Origin Autonomy's drywall robot is on New York sites
The company came out of stealth with $20M, a 14-foot reach and a target of 150 robots by the end of 2027.
- Physical Intelligence opens its Pi API in beta
Outside teams can now sign up to fine-tune the company's robot foundation models on their own hardware.
- World model trained on 30,000 hours learned hands, not objects
Jiahua Dong says scaling first-person video from 300 to 30,000 hours did not close the gap on what happens to objects.
- Adcock tells a Hark user "You lie about this?"
A public spat over a $30 credit, with the evidence sitting behind a link nobody else can check.
- Hark user says the agent runs his family admin
Pranay lists two weeks of tasks, from a school date buried in a PDF to an overseas trip, and Brett Adcock reshares it.
- Robot learns dexterous hands from minutes of human play
Ruoshi Liu says the method needs no task demonstrations and no sim2real, and nobody outside the team has tested it yet.
- Jim Fan's lab open-sources ASPIRE after Astra swap
The benchmark jump came from a stronger backbone model, not from new robot code.
- Chart says AI skill predicts robot skill, minus Gemini
Robocurve PBC's plot only holds together once the Gemini models come out of it.
- Tesla posts a clip, researchers ask if it is AI-generated
A two word caption, no method, no autonomy claim, and the first reply from the research crowd was doubt.