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- 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.