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What changed, and what is the evidence.
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Excited for this book on robot autonomy from the pioneers! Congratulations @drmapavone https://t.co/xzflKqEAPL |
Most people just saw a humanoid robot throwing kicks and flipping off cars. But the H2-X has some technical details worth looking at. Here’s what the footage and the available specifications tell us about Unitree’s Kung Fu Legend Guardian.… |
Why is nobody talking about this? ToddlerBot is a 0.56 m, 3.4 kg humanoid robot built at Stanford by Haochen Shi, Weizhuo Wang, Shuran Song and C. Karen Liu. Its goal is to make robot learning cheap and easy to reproduce. The full hardware… |
There are more companies selling robot intelligence right now than companies selling robots. That showed up this year as a pattern I kept noticing. In this case all these research groups with published on the same robot from @DexmateAI.… |
$AMAT just opened the largest joint chip research facility in the world, and all the major chipmakers are in it. The EPIC Center in Sunnyvale, California covers about 600,000 square feet, with nearly four acres of cleanroom space. Spending… |
Silicon Valley concentrates the venture capital and model talent. Manufacturing plants run on takt time, not demo schedules. Physical AI gets proven when an autonomous policy survives an active assembly cell. https://t.co/Hgj0lyHNHQ |
I am trying to visit them all and have only gotten a small percent. https://t.co/MCCp6V9nuE |
This is the capital of robotics! 🌁 Silicon Valley is home to so many physical AI companies that you could spend a month visiting them and still not see even 10% of them (trust me, I tried). So, the Bay Area is the world's leading… |
A humanoid robot has just learned to catch boxes weighing up to 2 kg. 🤖📦 Meet Reflex, a research framework that enables Unitree Robotics G1 to react to human-thrown objects using onboard RGB-D sensing and coordinated whole-body control.… |
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger on getting hired at 18, designing Intel's chips while finishing his PhD, and arguing with his Stanford professors: "I'm 16 years old. I accidentally win a scholarship. I go to tech school, skip my last year… |
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger with a16z's Raghu Raghuram and Guido Appenzeller on the next wave of semiconductor innovation and the physical constraints shaping the AI buildout: Drawing on his experience designing Intel's 386 and 486… |
Mecka AI just raised a $60M Series B led by Sequoia. NVIDIA, Microsoft M12, Qualcomm, and Samsung also participated, along with angels including Tony Xu, Frank Slootman, and former Tesla Optimus lead Milan Kovac. Total funding now exceeds… |
Stanford has open-sourced DITTO-X, a teleoperation system for dexterous robots. A human can control the robot hand remotely while feeling force and tactile feedback. When the robot is working autonomously, DITTO-X can also move the… |
Our team is headed to @Stanford this Wednesday, October 7th, for the Stanford Computer Forum Career Fair! Drop by McCaw Hall at the Arrillaga Alumni Center between 11am and 4pm to meet our team and learn about how our team is solving the… |
GPT-6 Astra+Unitree G1->home-humanoid Stanford’s HomeBody is testing a different way to build humanoid intelligence. A Unitree G1 first explores an unfamiliar kitchen, builds persistent spatial memory and a Real2Sim digital twin, then uses… |
No training for every tool. No task-specific policy. Just one policy learning how to manipulate unfamiliar tools. 🤯🤖 Researchers have developed SimToolReal, a sim-to-real reinforcement learning framework for zero-shot dexterous tool… |
Turning an existing car into a self-driving research platform. Built by Stanford students Subha Vadlamannati, Howard Ji, Joel Grayson, and Bryan Dong, TORQ won the @NVIDIARobotics Edge AI track at #TreeHacks2026. At the center is the… |
Linkerbot is the leading dexterous robot hand producer valued at $3bn. They own ~80% of market share globally according to their CEO. Clients include industrial firms such as Samsung, Siemens & research institutions such as MIT, Stanford,… |
10 founders building in stealth 🥷 👇 1. @achowdhery = PaLM and Gemini lead at DeepMind, now CEO of a stealth AI startup 2. @skcd42 = shipped Grok Code Fast 1 at xAI, co-founded CodeStory (YC S23) 3. @scv119 = scaled training infra at… |
Galbot was valued at $3bn in Mar 26. 3 humanoid pure play stocks: ♣︎ Unitree $29bn mcap ♠︎ Ubtech $5bn ♦︎ Agility $3bn Galbot cumulatively raised $1bn in last 3 yrs and plans to go public this year. The majority of its backers are Chinese… |
Stealth startup @RewardAI_ has unveiled OM-1, an embodied foundation model learned directly from human manipulation data. Zero teleoperation or on-robot data involved. Spun out of Stanford’s DexCap research, the stack pairs a wearable… |
Stanford's @ChenggangXu2024 argues that China's industrial policy push in AI & chips has major opportunity costs. Instead of addressing issues like debt, unemployment, and insufficient domestic demand, the government has prioritized… |
Told you what @GregMadison built in XR is amazing. I am so blessed to see the future long before it happens for most. I have a small robot in my pocket that is designed to be swallowed. A robot investor gave it to me at lunch today. What a… |
Same Claude Opus 5. One run scored 30% on ARC-AGI-3. Another hit 95.5%. The model weights did not change. The harness did. Y Combinator released a one-hour class this week pulling together three teams: Prime Agent, Stanford's OpenJarvis,… |
New paper from Google DeepMind, MIT, Stanford: "Design Docs Are All You Need". Using structured design docs to drive AI-native ML performance modeling. The result: design docs outperform ad-hoc prompting for complex engineering tasks.… |
Robotics basics straight from Stanford! 😮💨 This free from Stanford University is a great starting point to kinematics, dynamics, control, motion planning, trajectory generation, and design. There is no better way to get into robotics… |
>be dr. fei-fei li >born in beijing, raised in chengdu >dad moves to new jersey, follow at age 16 >speak almost no english >parents open a dry cleaner >work the counter on weekends >get into princeton on a full scholarship >study physics,… |
AI Adoption Is Surging, but Business Impact Still Lags AI adoption is accelerating, but using AI and generating measurable business value from it are not the same thing. Stanford's 2025 AI Index reported that 78% of surveyed organizations… |
OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model Moo Jin Kim∗,1 Karl Pertsch∗,1,2 Siddharth Karamcheti∗,1,3 Ted Xiao4 Ashwin Balakrishna3 Suraj Nair3 Rafael Rafailov1 Ethan Foster1 Grace Lam Pannag Sanketi4 Quan Vuong5,† Thomas Kollar3… |
BeyondMimic is now in Science Robotics. Berkeley and Stanford used a Unitree G1 to track human motions like sprinting, spin-kicks and cartwheels, then used guided diffusion to combine those skills for waypoint navigation and obstacle… |
BeyondMimic is now in Science Robotics. Berkeley and Stanford used a Unitree G1 to track human motions like sprinting, spin-kicks and cartwheels, then used guided diffusion to combine those skills for waypoint navigation and obstacle… |
Post Log in Sign up Post Anirudha Majumdar on X: "Very cool work, Pete! I'm curious if you've tried an extreme version of this: no in-context example at all; just place objects in front of the robot and see if it can infer the task. I… |
De-An Huang, Danfei Xu" /> Leveraging Compositionality for One-Shot Imitation Learning \| The Stanford AI Lab Blog Leveraging Compositionality for One-Shot Imitation Learning De-An Huang, Danfei Xu May 6, 2020 How do you teach a robot to… |