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Generalist AI has released GEN-1.5, a robot foundation model that achieves 59% average success on new physical tasks from a single 3-12 second demonstration with no training, rising to 83% with 10 gradient steps on 5 minutes of data, representing the first broad one-shot physical skill learning to emerge at scale.
1X Technologies has unveiled NEO Hands, a 25-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven robotic hand system for its NEO home humanoid, combining distributed tactile sensing, AI-assisted manipulation, and fast actuation loops to enable dexterous handling of everyday objects in residential environments.
Robbyant, an embodied AI company within Ant Group, has unveiled LingBot-VA 2.0, an autoregressive world model built from scratch for physical-world robot control rather than adapted from digital video generation, achieving 150 Hz closed-loop control on a single GPU and adapting to new tasks with as few as 20 demonstrations.
Bear Robotics has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinisi Robotics, adding the KR1 humanoid robot and its vision-language-action manipulation models to Bear's existing fleet of more than 16,000 deployed…
Alibaba has introduced the Qwen Robot Suite, its first family of AI models for physical robotics, comprising three interconnected systems for navigation, manipulation, and world modeling, already in pilot testing…
Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology have developed a soft robotic arm modeled on the elephant trunk's muscular architecture, capable of handling fragile objects and heavy loads with the…
Genesis AI has unveiled GENE-26.5, a robotics foundation model paired with a human-scale robotic hand and a data-collection glove that enables 1:1 skill transfer from humans to robots, targeting complex…
