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ROS 2, middleware, communications, hardware drivers, calibration, real-time systems, systems integration, fleet operations, compute platforms, on-device inference, model deployment, and power and latency optimization. Mentioning ROS, MCP, or open source alone does not determine the category.
57 selected · 27 in the last 30 days
arXiv cs.RO ·
A2-MEAS: An Embodied Multi-Agent Framework with Code as a Scaling Interface
The authors propose A2-MEAS, an embodied multi-agent framework that uses code as a scaling interface, combining corrective language, spatial evidence, execution history, and action proposals into correction codes; during training, MetaBrain provides supervision and runtime guidance.
机器人前瞻 · 微信公众号 ·
NVIDIA releases VFlash visual planning decoding framework, robot action decoding up to 12x faster
NVIDIA has released VFlash, a general-purpose decoding framework for fast visual planning that replaces token-by-token coordinate generation with parallel decoding of complete visual primitives, allowing it to predict robot grasp positions and motion trajectories in one pass. At batch size 1 on H100, single-generation speed improved by about 25x; across four MolmoSpaces tasks, the world action model averaged a 70.2% success rate versus a 62.6% baseline. Jim Fan shared that it achieves up to 12x faster action decoding, 5.1x overall robot inference speedup, and up to 61% lower 3D trajectory error.
机器人前瞻 · 微信公众号 ·
AgiBot releases WITA-OMNI interaction model and Lingqu OS 1.0, full open source by year-end
At its 2026 Innovation Day, AgiBot released WITA-OMNI, an embodied omni-modal end-to-end interaction large model. It ranked first on four benchmarks: Daily-Omni, TimeLens-Bench, EmbSpatialBench, and MMAU, with an average response time of about 600 milliseconds.
机器之心 · 微信公众号 ·
PokeBot releases embodied API RoboAPI, world-action model Poke-Aurora debuts
PokeBot released its first model product, RoboAPI, in the early hours of October 30. It is a publicly accessible, out-of-the-box embodied API: after developers connect and adapt a robotic arm, they need neither to collect data nor train models, and can issue commands with a single prompt to execute tasks the model was not specifically trained on.
3D视觉工坊 · 微信公众号 ·
Infinigence AI, Tsinghua and AgiBot propose Collective Experience Learning (CEL), validated on 96 robots with 98.3% success rate
Infinigence AI, together with Tsinghua University and AgiBot, proposed the Collective Experience Learning (CEL) paradigm and completed prototype validation on 96 robots. In a phone packaging task, policies trained with CEL completed 120 tests on two robots of the same model that did not participate in training, with the success rate rising from 79.2% to 98.3%; when the number of robots participating in learning increased from 16 to 96, the test success rate rose from 86.7% to 98.3%.
雷科技 ·
AgiBot Innovation Day releases Worken work-hour metric and Lingqu OS 1.0
At AgiBot Innovation Day on October 29, AgiBot proposed Worken (effective intelligent work hours), a measurement standard whose formula is number of active robots × autonomous working hours × output efficiency ratio, and released Lingqu OS 1.0, a native operating system for embodied intelligence.
Reddit r/robotics ·
PrismaX shares π0.5 policy transfer across YAM devices: fine-tuning ablations, latency bug, and 16GB VRAM deployment
The PrismaX team shared its practice of transferring a π0.5 policy trained on one YAM device to another YAM device, covering three parts: fine-tuning ablations, latency troubleshooting, and VRAM compression. On fine-tuning, training only the action expert yielded a 51% grasp rate and a 12% drop rate; full fine-tuning gave 89% and 53%; r=128 LoRA gave 84% and 59% while using 32GB. Strong lighting roughly halved the performance of the checkpoint trained only on the action expert.
CVer · 微信公众号 ·
Tsinghua AIR proposes OxyGen: unified KV Cache management lets robots talk while acting
The Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR) at Tsinghua University, together with Tsinghua's Department of Electronic Engineering and the University of Science and Technology of China, has proposed OxyGen, which uses unified KV Cache management to let an embodied model's action and language reasoning share prefix computation. The paper has been accepted to NeurIPS 2026.
AgiBot ·
AgiBot releases Genie Studio 2.0 embodied intelligence development and deployment platform
AgiBot has released Genie Studio 2.0, an embodied intelligence application platform covering development, deployment, and operations. It consists of three modules—Flywheel, Agent, and Monitor—that connect data collection, model training, evaluation, inference, task orchestration, and robot fleet management.
Robotics & Automation News ·
Dream Labs raises $90 million seed round and launches Dream API and Dream-1 model
Dream Labs announced it has completed a $90 million seed round led by B Capital, with participation from Kindred Ventures and others. The company also launched Dream API, which can convert robot camera footage and natural-language instructions directly into motor commands, and said its flagship model Dream-1 is trained on videos of everyday human tasks and can zero-shot control any robot with a gripper.
arXiv cs.RO ·
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.
Schaeffler ·
Schaeffler and Wandelbots enter technology partnership to advance Physical AI deployment in factories worldwide
Schaeffler and German robotics and Physical AI company Wandelbots have entered a technology partnership to jointly develop the Wandelbots NOVA open platform for AI applications in industrial and humanoid robots.
NVIDIA ·
NVIDIA Cosmos Expands with New Tools for Training, Evaluating and Deploying World Models
NVIDIA has expanded the Cosmos platform with new training tools, simulation checkpoints and Cosmos Data Factory blueprints for training, evaluating and deploying world models.
NVIDIA ·
NVIDIA releases OpenShell reference architecture for building governed AI agents
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced that the OpenShell reference architecture is now available for building, isolating, observing, and governing secure AI agents on enterprise infrastructure and edge systems.
NVIDIA ·
NVIDIA Expands Isaac Platform with New Humanoid Reference Platform, Isaac OS, and Isaac Lab 3.0
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced an expansion of the Isaac open-source robotics development platform, adding the Isaac OS runtime, the officially released Isaac Lab 3.0 learning framework, and an open-source reference workflow based on DGX Station.
Xbotics具身智能实验室 · 微信公众号 ·
RLinf v0.4 released: open-source training framework upgrade for embodied reinforcement learning
RLinf, an open-source training framework for embodied reinforcement learning developed by Tsinghua University, Infinigence AI, and the Beijing Zhongguancun Academy, has officially released v0.4, with updates across four areas: a Lego-style real-machine system, real-machine post-training algorithms, full-modality model support, and a domestic computing power foundation.
智源研究院 · 微信公众号 ·
BAAI's FlagOS 2.2 released: over 1,454 operators, 27% cross-chip performance gain
BAAI presented FlagOS 2.2 progress at the 2026 AI Open Computing Conference and FlagOS Technical Conference; the version was released on September 30. Public operators in the nine operator libraries rose from 564 to 1,454 (890 added). In tests covering over a thousand operators and 10 heterogeneous AI chips, cross-chip operator performance improved by about 27% over the previous version. The FlagOS-Compressor weight conversion and quantization tool was released for the first time, enabling a new model to be adapted to as many as 12 chips within one day.
中控技术 ·
SUPCON UCS goes into operation at Qinghai Salt Lake Magnesium's 300,000-ton PVC plant, with TPT deployed alongside
SUPCON's independently developed Universal Control System (UCS) has been successfully commissioned in the intelligent upgrade of Qinghai Salt Lake Magnesium's 300,000-ton ethylene-based PVC plant, making it the first large-scale UCS deployment in China's ethylene-based PVC industry; meanwhile, the TPT time-series large model has won the bid and entered the deployment and implementation phase.
中国机器人网 · 微信公众号 ·
Google-owned Intrinsic open-sources robot foundation software platform Intrinsic Core
At ROSCon 2026 in Toronto, Canada, Intrinsic announced that it is open-sourcing the core components of its industrial robotics platform under the Apache 2.0 license and launching Intrinsic Core, a ROS-compatible foundation software platform.
GitHub Robotics Topic ·
MuJoCo 3.16.0 released: adds compile-time frame scaling, Bazel build, and multiple breaking API changes
MuJoCo 3.16.0 was released on October 14, 2026. Frames gain scale, scaling, and massscale attributes that can scale their contents at compile time without modifying mjSpec. New savecompiled and savecanonical compile attributes preserve the original modeling style, and the core library, simulate, plugins, and examples can now be built with Bazel.