KingKong Robotics released Jumper, an open-source 22-DoF crab robot project whose repository is designed to be opened in an AI coding assistant so users can describe desired appearances, motions and s…
Researchers introduced Code to Control, an approach that synthesizes Python controllers executing directly as policies, separating program structure from parameters so an LLM builds the controller str…
A public GitHub repository, Awesome-Astra-Embodied-AI, has catalogued reported GPT-6 Astra robotics demonstrations spanning 12 simulation cases, 10 real-world deployments, six real-to-sim replay or da…
Enactic has released OpenArm, an open-source 7-degree-of-freedom humanoid arm priced at $6,500 USD for a complete bimanual system, aimed at physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environm…
Google DeepMind and HHMI Janelia Research Campus released flybody, an anatomically detailed fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) body model for the MuJoCo physics simulator and reinforcement learning a…
A developer released Fly Arena, an open-source simulation that combines a NeuroMechFly body in MuJoCo with MaleCNS v1.0 connectome data and explicit behavioral controllers to model a fruit fly. The hy…
GPT-6 Astra completed 7 of 100 tasks on the StationeryBench robotics benchmark using dual-arm robots, a 7% success rate that far exceeds MolmoAct2, which finished zero tasks on the same set. The resul…
A new PyTorch-based tutorial provides a from-scratch guide to building vision-based imitation learning policies for robotic manipulation, running on a single GPU and tested on the RoboSuite Lift task …
A developer seeking to convert LIBERO HDF5 datasets to LeRobot format asked how to map the 79-dimensional state vector to LeRobot's 8-dimensional observation.state. The response clarifies that the 79-…
MirroS released Code-as-World, a paradigm that represents physical scenes as executable MuJoCo programs recovered from real videos via an agentic loop, and open-sourced it under Apache 2.0 with two ch…
A new arXiv paper (2608.26481v1) finds that using a single shared critic across parallel environments in reinforcement learning causes value mismatch that degrades learning, and shows that conditionin…
Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face launched Microduck, a 25 cm open-source bipedal robot priced at $399, available for pre-order in four colorways with shipping before Christmas 2026. The robot features…
Apptronik, a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots, is hiring a Senior Reinforcement Learning Engineer for its Sunnyvale, CA office to implement and deploy state-of-the-art RL a…
Apptronik, a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots, is hiring a Lead Software Engineer for Dexterous Manipulation in Sunnyvale, CA, to lead the development of learning-based dex…
Researchers propose IADD-TR, a framework that decouples environment dynamics into action-intervention and action-free stages to reduce policy-induced data bias in model-based reinforcement learning. E…
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, a single model that unifies locomotion and manipulation for humanoid robots, eliminating the previous split between walking and arm-control systems. The mod…
Master's students pursuing RL research should focus on embodied AI, particularly Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, as the strongest bet, according to an analysis of current trends. Brain-computer i…
A new analysis of physical AI simulation finds that high-fidelity environments like NVIDIA Isaac Gym and MuJoCo are viable for training LLM agents that interact with the physical world, but a hybrid a…
Unitree Robotics received regulatory approval on July 3 for a $619 million IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market, becoming the first humanoid robot company to go public on China's domestic A-share market. The…
Researchers introduced SPEAR, a Python library that programmatically controls Unreal Engine applications for photorealistic embodied AI research. It offers over 14,000 programmable functions, renders …