A developer detailed their experience training an Action Chunking with Transformer (ACT) policy for the LeRobot SO-ARM101, a low-cost 3D-printed robot arm from Hugging Face's ecosystem. They shared pr…
Lightwheel released 10,000 hours of first-person human activity footage on August 26 for robotics researchers and developers, with plans to expand the EgoSuite-Open100K collection to 100,000 hours acr…
A developer testing the Calibra robot dataset observability tool found that its default action representation setting significantly alters dataset quality assessments and coreset selection, with quali…
Hugging Face's LeRobot and Strands Agents streamline robotics deployment by using Hugging Face Storage Buckets as a central data hub, eliminating manual file transfers and enabling continuous retraini…
AWS's open source Strands Robots SDK now integrates with Hugging Face Storage Buckets to enable a continuous data loop for robot learning, allowing users to record demonstrations, train policies, and …
TLabel, an open-source project, has released a CLI and adapter architecture through v0.18.x that unifies nine tactile dataset formats and three real-time sensor interfaces into a single semantic schem…
Hugging Face's LeRobot documentation recommends at least 50 demonstration episodes, roughly 10 per location, for training an ACT model, but the original ACT/ALOHA results show success rates ranging fr…
Calibra, a new robot dataset observability tool for LeRobot, has been introduced as a Space and Benchmark. The tool computes episode-level diagnostics to help users decide which episodes to inspect, a…
Calibra, an open-source toolkit for robot dataset observability, has been released to help audit datasets, identify quality issues, and estimate training outcomes before training. The first public rel…
Pareto, an open-source data platform from Hebbian Robotics, applies YouTube-style system design to robotics data infrastructure, enabling reliable upload, processing, indexing, and streaming of multim…
The open-source Grabette system, developed by an unnamed team, enables recording robot-manipulation data using a handheld gripper with two cameras, eliminating the need for a robot or teleoperation ri…
LeRobot 0.6.0 ships native Foxglove support, enabling live streaming of camera feeds and joint/action plots over WebSocket during teleoperation, recording, and dataset playback with a single command-l…
Daft's native LeRobot video reader is now up to 15× faster after switching from per-frame decoding to batch decoding by shard. The batch UDF groups rows by shard, sorts and clusters targets within 10-…
NVIDIA and Hugging Face have integrated Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Isaac Teleop into the open-source robotics library LeRobot, enabling vision-language-action workflows and standardized human-demonstration d…
NVIDIA and Hugging Face are collaborating to bring the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T 1.7 model and Isaac Teleop framework to LeRobot, Hugging Face's open-source robotics library, aiming to provide developers wit…
Anthropic published a paper applying the cognitive-science concept of a global workspace to Claude, revealing attention as working memory. Meanwhile, robotics releases from Hugging Face, Photoroom, an…
Former Tesla scientist Rémi Cadene launched UMA, a Paris-based startup building a lightweight, AI-powered humanoid robot called Northstar for manufacturing, logistics, and homes. The company has secur…
NVIDIA and Hugging Face are collaborating to integrate NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T 1.7 model and Isaac Teleop framework into Hugging Face's LeRobot open-source robotics library, with NVIDIA Cosmos 3 planned …
Hugging Face released LeRobot v0.6.0 on July 7, expanding the open-source robotics toolkit with world-model policies, vision-language-action models, reward-model support, six simulation benchmarks, a …
Hugging Face released LeRobot v0.6.0, introducing world model policies (VLA-JEPA, FastWAM, LingBot-VA) that learn to imagine future states, new vision-language-action models (GR00T N1.7, MolmoAct2, EO…