NEURA Robotics releases the humanoid robot 4NE1 Gen 4 and opens TUM RoboGym with the Technical University of Munich
NEURA Robotics and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) open TUM RoboGym at LabCampus near Munich Airport, covering more than 2,300 square meters, co-built with the participation of TUM MIRMI, with an initial three-year collaboration; the two parties invest a total of about 17 million euros, of which NEURA contributes about 11 million euros.
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SenseTime and a joint team evaluate the embodied capabilities of GPT-6-Astra and open-source the SenseNova-RoboRSI framework and a 27B model
A joint team formed by SenseTime and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), among others, releases the report "Has GPT-6-Astra Achieved Embodied Intelligence?", systematically evaluating the embodied capabilities of GPT-6-Astra on 12 benchmarks, and simultaneously open-sources the SenseNova-RoboRSI evaluation framework and a 27B embodied model.
How to choose a robot simulator: success and failure agree but contact forces differ tenfold
The article interprets the simulator comparison report released by Manda Robotics in early October, using the same Franka seven-axis robotic arm and the same control program to run about a dozen sets of experiments on four physics engines: PhysX, MuJoCo, MuJoCo Warp, and Genesis.
Xbotics具身智能实验室 · 微信公众号Source ↗BIT team publishes meter-scale titanium alloy single-crystal additive manufacturing results in Nature
The team of Professor Liu Changmeng at the Beijing Institute of Technology pioneers a single-crystal additive manufacturing method based on non-steady-state pulsating growth in a micro melt pool, achieving meter-scale titanium alloy single-crystal additive manufacturing for the first time; the results were published in Nature on October 21, in a paper titled Additive manufacturing ultralong and architected single crystals, with corresponding authors Liu Changmeng, Cui Yinan of Tsinghua University, and Yinmin Morris Wang of the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Industry News
NEURA Robotics releases the humanoid robot 4NE1 Gen 4 and opens TUM RoboGym with the Technical University of Munich
NEURA Robotics and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) open TUM RoboGym at LabCampus near Munich Airport, covering more than 2,300 square meters, co-built with the participation of TUM MIRMI, with an initial three-year collaboration; the two parties invest a total of about 17 million euros, of which NEURA contributes about 11 million euros.
Schaeffler and Wandelbots reach a technology partnership to advance the deployment of Physical AI in factories worldwide
Schaeffler and the German robotics and Physical AI company Wandelbots have reached a technology partnership and will jointly develop the open Wandelbots NOVA platform for AI applications in industrial and humanoid robots.
Paper Research
SenseTime and a joint team evaluate the embodied capabilities of GPT-6-Astra and open-source the SenseNova-RoboRSI framework and a 27B model
A joint team formed by SenseTime and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), among others, releases the report "Has GPT-6-Astra Achieved Embodied Intelligence?", systematically evaluating the embodied capabilities of GPT-6-Astra on 12 benchmarks, and simultaneously open-sources the SenseNova-RoboRSI evaluation framework and a 27B embodied model.
BIT team publishes meter-scale titanium alloy single-crystal additive manufacturing results in Nature
The team of Professor Liu Changmeng at the Beijing Institute of Technology pioneers a single-crystal additive manufacturing method based on non-steady-state pulsating growth in a micro melt pool, achieving meter-scale titanium alloy single-crystal additive manufacturing for the first time; the results were published in Nature on October 21, in a paper titled Additive manufacturing ultralong and architected single crystals, with corresponding authors Liu Changmeng, Cui Yinan of Tsinghua University, and Yinmin Morris Wang of the University of California, Los Angeles.
北京理工大学 · 微信公众号Source ↗Genrobot open-sources the first-person whole-body manipulation dataset Gen-HumanWholeBody
Genrobot releases and open-sources Gen-HumanWholeBody, a first-person whole-body manipulation dataset that it says has the industry's highest accuracy, hosted on Hugging Face. The dataset contains 600 hours of whole-body manipulation data, approximately 3 cm whole-body MPJPE, 16,976 real-world scenes, and 1,281 human skills, and is open for research on whole-body motion learning, human-to-robot transfer, and embodied foundation models.
简智机器人 · XSource ↗KAI Halo case EgoWild2Dex: training dual-arm dexterous manipulation with first-person data
The KAI Halo case EgoWild2Dex demonstrates how to obtain high-quality dual-arm dexterous manipulation capabilities from challenging first-person (egocentric) data; the project page is https://mmlab.hk/egowild2dex .
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How to choose a robot simulator: success and failure agree but contact forces differ tenfold
The article interprets the simulator comparison report released by Manda Robotics in early October, using the same Franka seven-axis robotic arm and the same control program to run about a dozen sets of experiments on four physics engines: PhysX, MuJoCo, MuJoCo Warp, and Genesis.
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