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NVIDIA4world-labs4Joseph Amigo, Rooholla Khorrambakht, Nicolas Mansard, Ludovic Righetti3Veeda AI2Promise2@rimtoln1Anthropic1ZiNovaLabs1@drfeifei1Axis Robotics1@EdmondIsARobot1Edmond1
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Hydra-0 training2202 hrsIt was trained on about 2,202 hours of multi-embodiment video spanning human hands, handheld grippers, single-arm robots and bimanual systems.@techniahqrobot on X
Moby deployment in a semiconductor facility.3 unitsbring two Moby3 units to a semiconductor facility for material-handling workflows.Noble Machines Accelerates Humanoid Robot Development 3X | NVIDIA
development timeline of Moby.$3Accelerate Moby's development timeline by nearly 3x, from an expected four years to 18 months.Noble Machines Accelerates Humanoid Robot Development 3X | NVIDIA
development timeline reduction.18 hrsfrom an initial estimated timeline of four years with 50 people to 18 months with 15 people.Noble Machines Accelerates Humanoid Robot Development 3X | NVIDIA
Atlas1 unitsAtlas is built to scale: its performance improves with increased training compute, and we expect this trend to hold as we continue scaling.Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence | World Labs
investment in Veeda$90millionSanja Fidler quit her job running NVIDIA's Toronto AI lab, started a company three months ago, and has already pulled in $90 million without shipping a single product.Shuddhatma Jain on X: "Sanja Fidler quit her job running NVIDIA's Toronto AI lab, started a company three months ago, and has already pulled in $90 million without shipping a single product. nobody is betting on a robot here. they're betting she can build the world robots learn inside 🧵" / X
filtered simulation episodes180.55 hrs42,046 episodes and 3,249,835 frames remained, equivalent to 180.55 hours at 5 Hz.Axis Robotics × Booster: From Digital Twins to a Robot Data Engine
robot interaction data from the DROID dataset62 hrsMeta reports using 62 hours of robot interaction data from the DROID dataset for this stage.🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 06: V-JEPA 2 & Predicting Physical Intelligence · Luma
historic crime scenes10 unitsto recreate ten historic crime scenes that no longer existed.From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble | World Labs
G1 humanoid grasp and lift task10 unitsG1 humanoid · grasp & lift · ten successes in a rowCoupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL
successful grasps by the G1 humanoid on hardware.10 unitsG1 humanoid · grasp & lift · ten successes in a rowCoupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL
DROID dataset robot interaction data62 hrsMeta reports using 62 hours of robot interaction data from the DROID dataset for this stage.🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 06: V-JEPA 2 & Predicting Physical Intelligence · Luma
video generation1 unitsAtlas generates images and videos from one or more images with pixel-perfect camera control, outputting up to 1 minute of video at 1440p.World Labs Atlas
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1:43 PM ET@rimtoln
@rimtoln on X

EVERYONE SHOWS THE 300-AGENT SWARM. almost nobody shows what happens after 300 agents are easy to spawn turning 300 outputs into one structure is the hard part ▹ the pipeline nobody demos collect → connect → organize → unify one context graph at the end the swarm starts as hundreds of isolated research paths then sources start sharing entities links form · contradictions surface weak claims stay exposed eventually the mess collapses into one structure the whole system can reason over ▹ the reframe that's the part you usually never see the swarm is the demo the graph is the product bookmark…

5:13 PM ETANAnthropic
@MParekh on X

‘New and Improved’ in AI Models, Anthropic, OpenAI & Google. ARD #154 ...Fable 5.1’s fine print. Astra tips out on cyber. Gemini narrows the gap. World models level up. Full writeup and source links: https://t.co/UZSXoRFmE2 https://t.co/UOEqsFebFq

9:43 AM ETNVIDIA
@techniahqrobot on X

We’re cooked if robots can start learning from bodies they don’t even have. NVIDIA Brown Columbia and Harvard researchers released Hydra-0, a world model that represents robot actions as pixel motion. It was trained on about 2,202 hours of multi-embodiment video spanning human hands, handheld grippers, single-arm robots and bimanual systems. Instead of tying an action to one specific robot body, Hydra-0 predicts how objects should move in the image. The team also tested it on a real 14-DoF YAM robot, which bent a flexible pipe from a desired object motion. This is still a controlled…

10:31 PM ETZIZiNovaLabs
LimX Dynamics on X: "Together with ZINOVA's Tool Intelligence, TRON 2 takes on increasingly complex construction workflows. @ZiNovaLabs builds on TRON 2 to explore an innovative robotic configuration for construction, demonstrating key tasks in a scaled-down tilt-up construction workflow, includi… / X

Post Log in Sign up Post LimX Dynamics on X: "Together with ZINOVA's Tool Intelligence, TRON 2 takes on increasingly complex construction workflows. @ZiNovaLabs builds on TRON 2 to explore an innovative robotic configuration for construction, demonstrating key tasks in a scaled-down tilt-up construction workflow, including formwork assembly, multi-layer rebar placement and tying. TRON 2 serves as a modular and extensible embodied robotic platform for multi-tool, multi-step tasks across large workspaces. Its dual arms handle construction tools and materials across different orientations and…

7:00 PM ETNvidia
Noble Machines Accelerates Humanoid Robot Development 3X | NVIDIA

Manufacturing \| Robotics Noble Machines Accelerates General Purpose Industrial Robot Development With NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Learn More Objective Noble Machines is advancing industrial robot development with the Moby general-purpose industrial robot and its supporting software stack, including a proprietary AI driven whole-body-control system. Moby is designed for complex, hazardous, and labor-intensive work across factories, logistics centers, construction sites, and semiconductor facilities, where operating reliably requires advanced perception, reasoning, adaptation, and physical interaction.…

6:07 PM ET@drfeifei
@drfeifei on X

@DrJimFan @theworldlabs Indeed Jim, a camera conditioned world model with spatial context has so much horizontal usage including real2sim for robotics!

2:09 PM ETNvidia
Seeed reBot Arm B601-RS: Physical AI & VLA Model Course | NVIDIA DLI Series

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1:28 PM ETWLworld-labs
World Labs on X: "All of this is powered by one unified architecture: a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer, pretrained from scratch. This foundation blends the best of modern LLMs and video models, benefiting from the architectural, algorithmic, and systems advances from both areas." / X

Post Log in Sign up Post World Labs on X: "All of this is powered by one unified architecture: a multimodal autoregressive diffusion transformer, pretrained from scratch. This foundation blends the best of modern LLMs and video models, benefiting from the architectural, algorithmic, and systems advances from both areas." - World Labs @theworldlabs 12h Introducing Atlas: The world's first multimodal world model that generates image and video frames with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs them in 3D. Model the world, move the camera, and simulate space & time. 00:00 View media 330…

1:28 PM ETWLworld-labs
Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence | World Labs

September 1, 2026Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear, behave, and evolve so that we can render imagined worlds for creative users, simulate the real world in high fidelity, and help robots plan actions. At World Labs, we build these general purpose world models in pursuit of spatial intelligence. Today we are introducing Atlas, our next-generation world model. Atlas is an omni model that we pretrained from…

9:25 AM ETVAVeeda AI
Veeda AI Raises $90M Seed to Build "The Matrix" for Physical AI - WOWTALE

Skip to content - AI - · - Funding - · - Robotics Veeda AI Raises $90M Seed to Build “The Matrix” for Physical AI 8/31/2026 ・ 버섯돌이(Taehyun Kim) Training a robot to master a new motion takes thousands of trial-and-error attempts. The trouble is doing that training in the real world at all — robotic hardware doesn’t scale like compute, a single bad move can cause real physical harm, and real-world experience can’t be compressed or run in parallel. A startup betting it can solve that bottleneck with simulation just closed one of the largest seed rounds a Canadian company has ever raised.…

9:25 AM ETVAVeeda AI
Veeda AI Raises $90M Seed to Build "The Matrix" for Physical AI - WOWTALE

Skip to content - AI - · - Funding - · - Robotics Veeda AI Raises $90M Seed to Build “The Matrix” for Physical AI 8/31/2026 ・ 버섯돌이(Taehyun Kim) Training a robot to master a new motion takes thousands of trial-and-error attempts. The trouble is doing that training in the real world at all — robotic hardware doesn’t scale like compute, a single bad move can cause real physical harm, and real-world experience can’t be compressed or run in parallel. A startup betting it can solve that bottleneck with simulation just closed one of the largest seed rounds a Canadian company has ever raised.…

5:18 AM ETNVIDIA
Shuddhatma Jain on X: "Sanja Fidler quit her job running NVIDIA's Toronto AI lab, started a company three months ago, and has already pulled in $90 million without shipping a single product. nobody is betting on a robot here. they're betting she can build the world robots learn inside 🧵" / X

Post Log in Sign up Post Shuddhatma Jain on X: "Sanja Fidler quit her job running NVIDIA's Toronto AI lab, started a company three months ago, and has already pulled in $90 million without shipping a single product. nobody is betting on a robot here. they're betting she can build the world robots learn inside 🧵" - Shuddhatma Jain @decepticons0101 Sanja Fidler quit her job running NVIDIA's Toronto AI lab, started a company three months ago, and has already pulled in $90 million without shipping a single product. nobody is betting on a robot here. they're betting she can build the world robots…

4:00 AM ETARAxis Robotics
Axis Robotics × Booster: From Digital Twins to a Robot Data Engine

Back How task-aligned simulation, real demonstrations, and continued pretraining can make each new Booster task easier to build than the last. Robot learning has a model problem. More importantly, it has a data-operations problem. Figure — Axis’s simulation solution spans third-person, head, and wrist observations while varying appearance, materials, object layout, lighting, and scene context. The objective is to preserve task structure while varying the details that should not control the policy. Introduction For robotics companies building new embodiments—and, increasingly, for the entire…

7:55 PM ET@EdmondIsARobot
🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 06: V-JEPA 2 & Predicting Physical Intelligence · Luma

Hosted By Edmond Jono Hart James (Jingxi) Xu Mene Mazarakis Angela Zhang Manfredi Bernardi Adam 134 Went Akshobhya Gupta, Hannah Tsui and 132 others Contact the Host Report Event AI 🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 06: V-JEPA 2 & Predicting Physical Intelligence Hosted by Edmond & 6 others Aug 30 Sunday, August 30 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT Register to See Address Atherton, CA Past Event This event ended 2 days ago. Welcome! To join the event, please register below. Request to Join About Event ​🤖🍨 Grab a sundae and join Sundae Robotics, a private, invite-only Sunday series bringing together robotics…

12:41 PM ETWLWorld Labs
Bringing Marble to Life | World Labs

Nov 12, 2025A behind-the-scenes look at how Marble powered the creation of its own launch story. Bringing Marble to Life World Labs: Just Imagine - YouTube Tap to unmute World Labs: Just Imagine World Labs World Labs5.53K subscribers Overview Copy link to this section When the World Labs team set out to create Marble’s first marketing video, they made a bold decision: to build it with Marble itself. The result was a launch video created using the same technology it introduced. Over the course of a few weeks, hundreds of 3D worlds were imagined, refined, and brought into the stage pipeline.…

12:41 PM ETPRPromise
From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble | World Labs

Aug 12, 2026How Promise used Marble to transform archival imagery into immersive 3D environments for Harlan Coben’s Final Twist. From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble Using Hybrid Production to Reconstruct Crime Scenes - YouTube Tap to unmute Using Hybrid Production to Reconstruct Crime Scenes Promise Promise573 subscribers Overview Copy link to this section For Harlan Coben's Final Twist on Paramount+ and CBS, Promise developed a hybrid production workflow that combined World Labs' Marble, AI-assisted image restoration, artist-led environment creation, and virtual…

8:00 PM ETJoseph Amigo, Rooholla Khorrambakht, Nicolas Mansard, Ludovic Righetti
Coupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL

Real-world tasks solved zero-shot by policies trained entirely inside our learned world models: Push-T with a tabletop manipulator (left), Ego-Centric Grasp and Lift with a G1 humanoid (centre), and Ego-Centric Push Cube with a Go2 quadruped (right). Abstract World models offer a promising avenue for capturing complex environment dynamics where simulators face challenges. However, large-scale world models required for complex real-world settings are computationally expensive to adopt in popular RL approaches. We introduce a novel first-order RL method that enables policy training via a…

8:00 PM ETJoseph Amigo, Rooholla Khorrambakht, Nicolas Mansard, Ludovic Righetti
Coupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL

Real-world tasks solved zero-shot by policies trained entirely inside our learned world models: Push-T with a tabletop manipulator (left), Ego-Centric Grasp and Lift with a G1 humanoid (centre), and Ego-Centric Push Cube with a Go2 quadruped (right). Abstract World models offer a promising avenue for capturing complex environment dynamics where simulators face challenges. However, large-scale world models required for complex real-world settings are computationally expensive to adopt in popular RL approaches. We introduce a novel first-order RL method that enables policy training via a…

8:00 PM ETJoseph Amigo, Rooholla Khorrambakht, Nicolas Mansard, Ludovic Righetti
Coupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL

Real-world tasks solved zero-shot by policies trained entirely inside our learned world models: Push-T with a tabletop manipulator (left), Ego-Centric Grasp and Lift with a G1 humanoid (centre), and Ego-Centric Push Cube with a Go2 quadruped (right). Abstract World models offer a promising avenue for capturing complex environment dynamics where simulators face challenges. However, large-scale world models required for complex real-world settings are computationally expensive to adopt in popular RL approaches. We introduce a novel first-order RL method that enables policy training via a…

PRPromise
From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble | World Labs

Aug 12, 2026How Promise used Marble to transform archival imagery into immersive 3D environments for Harlan Coben’s Final Twist. From Archive to Production: A Hybrid Workflow with Marble Using Hybrid Production to Reconstruct Crime Scenes - YouTube Tap to unmute Using Hybrid Production to Reconstruct Crime Scenes Promise Promise573 subscribers Overview Copy link to this section For Harlan Coben's Final Twist on Paramount+ and CBS, Promise developed a hybrid production workflow that combined World Labs' Marble, AI-assisted image restoration, artist-led environment creation, and virtual…

Edmond
🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 06: V-JEPA 2 & Predicting Physical Intelligence · Luma

Hosted By Edmond Jono Hart James (Jingxi) Xu Mene Mazarakis Angela Zhang Manfredi Bernardi Adam 134 Went Akshobhya Gupta, Hannah Tsui and 132 others Contact the Host Report Event AI 🤖🍨 Sundae Robotics 06: V-JEPA 2 & Predicting Physical Intelligence Hosted by Edmond & 6 others Aug 30 Sunday, August 30 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT Register to See Address Atherton, CA Past Event This event ended 2 days ago. Welcome! To join the event, please register below. Request to Join About Event ​🤖🍨 Grab a sundae and join Sundae Robotics, a private, invite-only Sunday series bringing together robotics…

WLWorld Labs
World Labs Atlas

September 1, 2026Introducing Atlas, our new omni world model for spatial intelligence. Atlas: A World Model for Spatial Intelligence World models generate, reconstruct, and simulate any possible world. They understand how worlds appear, behave, and evolve so that we can render imagined worlds for creative users, simulate the real world in high fidelity, and help robots plan actions. At World Labs, we build these general purpose world models in pursuit of spatial intelligence. Today we are introducing Atlas, our next-generation world model. Atlas is an omni model that we pretrained from…