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Nov 10Tue
  1. 量子位80

    Ant Group's Lingbo open-sources LingBot-Touch tactile foundation model

    On November 10, Ant Group's Lingbo Technology open-sourced LingBot-Touch, a tactile foundation model pre-trained on nearly 5,000 hours of real tactile data. It covers three sensing principles—magnetic tactile, visuotactile, and piezoresistive—and outputs unified tactile tokens for use by different dexterous hands and action models.

    Why it matters: The original text provides a unified representation across three types of tactile sensing and data from 26 real-machine tests, which can be used to assess the gains a tactile foundation model brings to existing action models.

Nov 7Sat
  1. HuggingFace Daily Papers62

    WorldFoundry: Toward Unified Open-Source Infrastructure for World Intelligence

    WorldFoundry proposes open-source infrastructure for world intelligence, intended for reproducible inference and evaluation across video, 3D and 4D, embodied action, and interactive world systems. The work defines a generative world model as a predictive dynamical system that maintains a persistent, history-conditioned state representation, responds to actions or interventions, and generates temporally coherent trajectories. Its catalog includes 270 model entries, 74 benchmarks, and 62 metric entries, and it records execution readiness and evaluation conclusions separately through manifests, artifact contracts, and evidence-aware scorecards.

  2. CVer · 微信公众号69

    miHoYo and Tsinghua University and others open-source GameScaling general game agent models

    miHoYo, together with Tsinghua University, the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, and other institutions, has open-sourced the GameScaling series of general game models, covering four size tiers—0.8B, 2B, 9B, and 27B—for a total of eight models. The weights and inference code are released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Nov 6Fri
  1. Hugging Face LeRobot18

    LeRobot v0.7.0-rc1 released

    Hugging Face's LeRobot has released v0.7.0-rc1; this commit bumps the lerobot dependency version to 0.7.0 (#5268). This is a release candidate ahead of the official version, and the commit is verified and signed by GitHub.

Nov 5Thu
  2. HuggingFace Daily Papers78

    PyRUA-DataFarm: Using LLM agents instead of teleoperation to generate real-ready robot data

    PyRUA-DataFarm proposes having a coding agent rebuild tasks in simulation, with a video model rendering them into real-ready data, replacing teleoperation for collecting robot demonstrations. On five real-robot tasks, policies trained only on this data achieved 93/100 successes, versus 84/100 for policies trained on teleoperated data; under an unseen tablecloth and colored lighting, the former kept 87 successes while the latter fell to 46.

    Why it matters: The paper presents a complete pipeline and cost comparison for using a coding agent to replace teleoperation in collecting demonstrations, which can be used to assess the room for replacing this data-collection route.

Nov 4Wed
  1. 量子位67

    China Merchants Group Lion Rock Lab releases embodied reasoning model Lion-ER-35B-A3B

    The Lion Rock AI Lab under the China Merchants Group Advanced Technology Research Institute has released an embodied reasoning vision-language model, Lion-ER-35B-A3B. It uses a MoE architecture with about 35B total parameters and about 3B activated per token. On ten public embodied-related benchmarks, all metrics improved over the base model, with an equal-weight composite average score of 65.29.

  2. HuggingFace Daily Papers60

    Route Anything: Research on model and policy routing for general-purpose AI systems

    The study proposes Route Anything, a unified framework for studying model and policy routing in general-purpose AI systems, and establishes an optimal routing theory under quality-cost trade-offs. The authors construct an omni-modal trajectory matrix covering 25 benchmarks across language, image, video, speech, coding and workplace agents, and robotic manipulation, with 452 candidate configurations and 374,401 scoring runs.

  3. HuggingFace Daily Papers72

    DreamFree: A world action model without future video generation, reusing video diffusion priors via representation distillation

    DreamFree proposes a world action model (WAM) that does not require generating future videos. Through representation distillation, it turns a pretrained video diffusion model into a predictive visual encoder that predicts the frozen video model's representation using only the current observation; an action module then extracts action-relevant information.

Nov 2Mon
  1. OFweek Robotics35

    Desktop robots are booming: embodied AI makers bet on a new track, is the endgame a physical Agent?

    Desktop robots are becoming a new offshoot for embodied AI makers, focused on two functions: emotional companionship and productivity tools. The Letianpai desktop robot entered the market at a price of 1,799 yuan, the Lingtong Nian NIA-F01 offers companion interaction in a figurine form, and Elephant Robotics' myCobot series of small robotic arms requires secondary development. The article argues that consumer products still center on emotional companionship and have not yet truly delivered on boosting productivity, and that the future requires moving toward modularity and upgrading the ability to operate in the physical world.

Nov 1Sun
  1. HuggingFace Daily Papers72

    uni-robot-agent: A Unified Open-Source Framework for Robot-Use Agents

    A research team proposes uni-robot-agent, a unified framework to support further training of open-weight robot-use agents. Without privileged inputs, the out-of-the-box Qwen3.8-Flash-Next achieves a RoboDojo score of 31.39, surpassing the published GPT-6 Astra-RoboProbe result of 28.97, and performs competitively on 19 real-world tasks.

Oct 30Fri
  1. 雷科技33

    Desktop robots are booming: Roboparty, Lingtong NIA-F01, myCobot and other embodied AI vendors push into a new track — is the endgame a physical Agent?

    Desktop robots are becoming a new offshoot for embodied AI vendors. Roboparty launched a bipedal desktop robot at 1,799 yuan, Lingtong's NIA-F01 is a humanoid figurine companion robot, and Elephant Robotics' myCobot series takes the form of small robotic arms aimed at secondary development. These products reuse the smartphone and IoT supply chains and cost less than full-size humanoid robots; consumer-grade selling points currently center on emotional companionship, while efficiency-tool solutions mostly require secondary development.

  2. HuggingFace Daily Papers58

    Study: Probe evaluation of spatial state representations in visual foundation models

    The study uses frozen-feature probes to examine ten visual foundation model representations across four levels—spatial structure, object persistence, predictive spatial update, and actionability—under streaming first-person observations of static indoor environments. Results show that strong readout of the visible scene does not guarantee accurate object persistence or future-feature retrieval, and a spatial reader trained on real features does not transfer unchanged to predicted features. Object persistence and actionability depend on camera pose readout, while feature prediction depends on visible-scene readout.

Oct 29Thu
  2. Pollen Robotics · YouTube42

    Reachy Mini launches Hoverboard wheel accessory, NFC hats, and mobile app

    Pollen Robotics (part of Hugging Face) has launched a Hoverboard two-wheel accessory for Reachy Mini, enabling Reachy Mini Wireless to move around and explore, and allowing users to drive it remotely with virtual joysticks via an iOS/Android mobile app, control its head movements, and view live video.

  3. Pollen Robotics · YouTube20

    How to install the NFC Accessories Kit in Reachy Mini Wireless

    Pollen Robotics released a tutorial demonstrating how to install the NFC Accessories Kit in the head of Reachy Mini Wireless, enabling magnetic accessory detection with just four screws and no glue. Once installed, the robot can automatically recognize NFC accessories placed on its head, and each accessory can unlock a different personality in the Reachy Mini conversation app or trigger custom actions. The kit also includes extra NFC tags and magnets for users to create their own accessories and AI interactions.

  7. HuggingFace Daily Papers79

    CaPtain: A Post-Training Pipeline for Code-as-Policy Robot Agents

    CaPtain proposes an open post-training pipeline that trains small open vision-language models such as Qwen3.5-4B into code-as-policy (CaP) robot agents that do not rely on VLAs, frontier models, or privileged state at test time.

    Why it matters: The work proposes using a physical critic to assign credit across multi-turn code policies and presents a complete training procedure for small models on LIBERO and real robots.

Oct 28Wed
  2. 极客公园63

    From Stanford Research to Red Sea Corals: How LingBot Models Are Entering the Foundation of Global Embodied AI

    Geek Park reviewed how the LingBot model series from Ant Group's embodied AI unit Robbyant has been adopted in academia, open-source communities, and industrial toolchains. Stanford's OpenWAM uses the LingBot-VA architecture as a reference implementation, and a KAIST team used LingBot-VLA as a teacher model to raise its student model's single-step inference success rate from 35.3% to 51.2%.

  3. 简智机器人 · X67

    GenRobot.AI's two open-source datasets enter Hugging Face robotics dataset trending top five

    GenRobot.AI announced that both of its open-source datasets, Gen-HumanWholeBody and Gen-HumanEgo, have entered the top five of the Hugging Face robotics dataset trending list. Gen-HumanWholeBody is a first-person whole-body manipulation dataset containing 600 hours of whole-body manipulation data, 16,976 real-world scenes, and 1,281 human skills, with whole-body MPJPE of about 3 cm; the authors say it targets whole-body motion learning, human-to-robot transfer, and embodied foundation model research.

    Why it matters: Two open-source datasets entering the top five of the Hugging Face robotics dataset trending list can serve as a reference for observing the level of attention to whole-body manipulation data.

Oct 26Mon
  2. arXiv cs.RO78

    Study: Full-weight VLA fine-tuning without an fp32 master copy silently erases most updates

    The paper points out that when VLA models are fully fine-tuned in bf16 without keeping an fp32 master copy, AdamW rounds away any update smaller than 1/512 of a weight; 9 of 12 open-source VLA codebases train this way by default or in documented recipes, including LeRobot's SmolVLA default configuration and the π0/π0.5 guides.

    Why it matters: The original quantifies the proportion of updates lost in bf16 fine-tuning and provides a LIBERO success-rate comparison for the fp32 master copy, which can serve as a reference for training configurations.

  3. HuggingFace Daily Papers59

    OSMA-Bench: An Obstacle-Conditioned Safety Benchmark for Household Robot Navigation

    The study proposes OSMA-Bench, an obstacle-conditioned safe motion adaptation benchmark built on spatially matched scenario sets that differ only in obstacle type, and introduces the Semantic Sensitivity Index (SSI) to measure whether a robot's clearance and its distance-dependent speed and smoothness follow the caution ordering of obstacles.

Oct 25Sun
Oct 24Sat
  1. HuggingFace Daily Papers71

    RoboJev-27B: An Open-Source Vision-Language Model for Robot Manipulation Success Detection

    RoboJev-27B is an open-weight vision-language model that takes a task instruction and 10 frames of a manipulation attempt to judge whether the robot completed the task. It achieves 95.2% balanced accuracy and 0.993 AUROC on 268 held-out episodes of the same robot model (SO-101), and an AUROC of 0.890 on 459 episodes from unseen labs and robots. Median inference time is 0.26 seconds per episode on a single H100, and the model, inference code, and evaluation results for 29 model/protocol entries are released together.

Oct 23Fri
  1. 图灵人工智能 · 微信公众号60

    Jensen Huang GTC Berlin keynote: launches OpenShell, DSX POD, and Agile ONE SN humanoid reference robot

    In his GTC Berlin keynote, Jensen Huang launched several products, including the OpenShell reference architecture that constrains agent permissions outside the sandbox, the DSX POD that can be pre-integrated at the factory and cut deployment time from about six months to as little as 14 days, and the Agile ONE SN humanoid reference robot developed with Agile Robots.

Oct 22Thu
Oct 21Wed
  1. HuggingFace Daily Papers52

    Rethinking Video Storage for AI Training: Breaking Cross-Frame Dependencies for Efficient Random Access

    The paper identifies two types of decode amplification when randomly sampling videos for AI training: sequential reconstruction of unrelated frames, and reconstruction of the reference chains needed for sampled targets. The authors propose dependency-aware sparse decoding, which reconstructs only the requested frames and their necessary references without transcoding the source video; optional offline DDRA encoding constrains each interior frame between two intra-coded anchors, so that reconstruction of each requested target requires no more than three frames. On a large robotics corpus, the method achieves 1.45x the loading throughput of LeRobot v3 at similar reconstruction quality, with 58.7% less media data.

  2. HuggingFace Daily Papers58

    CausalAlign: Aligning Causal Representations of Video Generation Models for Stable Camera Ego-Motion

    CausalAlign proposes a causal alignment framework that uses linear probes and causal interventions to locate the representation layers for camera ego-motion in video generation models, then aligns the representations at those layers to a 3D foundation model via delta-token space. After fine-tuning Wan2.2 on DL3DV and RealEstate10K, geometric consistency improves by more than 20% over the base model, and on RoboCasa365 mobile manipulation tasks it raises the success rate of the world action model (WAM) by 10 percentage points.

  3. HuggingFace Daily Papers58

    TARSphere: A Full-Stack Framework and Benchmark for Long-Horizon Embodied Agents

    TARSphere proposes a full-stack framework for robots that evaluates long-horizon embodied agents under physical and social constraints. Its TARSphere-Infra runs robot policies in a physics simulator with embodied NPCs and constrained dialogue, and uses an event-driven finite-state machine to update task states based on completed actions and delivered information; TARSphere-Harness lets a frozen multimodal large language model revise its decisions through multi-level executable skills, observations, hierarchical memory, and execution feedback.

Oct 20Tue
Oct 12Mon
  1. Pollen Robotics · YouTube64

    Pollen Robotics launches Microduck Arena virtual competition arena

    Pollen Robotics has released Microduck Arena, a virtual arena where Microduck robots race, train, and compete without the need for physical robots. Users train policies with reinforcement learning and publish them to their own Hugging Face accounts to enter challenges; each submission is evaluated uniformly by the Arena, and results can be compared across players. Published policies can be downloaded as .onnx files to watch replays and learn from the best runs.

    Why it matters: It connects policy training, unified evaluation, and replay-based learning into a closed loop, letting readers learn how to train and compare reinforcement learning policies without physical robots.

  2. 3D视觉工坊 · 微信公众号56

    Pumpire: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Point-to-Point Metric Distance Estimation in 3D Foundation Models

    Zhejiang University and other institutions propose Pumpire, a unified benchmark that directly evaluates the ability of image-level and video-level 3D foundation models to estimate point-to-point metric distances in reconstructed geometry, noting that previous approaches of separately evaluating depth and camera intrinsics cannot reflect this ability.

Oct 7Wed
Aug 31Mon
  1. Weekly Robotics47

    Weekly Robotics #374

    Weekly Robotics issue 374 coincides with the publication's 8th anniversary; highlights include Hello Robot Stretch 4 autonomous docking, the Microduck bipedal robot, and Gatik's $200 million funding round.

Aug 3Mon