Technology areas
Perception and localization
Vision, 3D and tactile perception; sensor fusion; SLAM; mapping and relocalization; body pose, contact state, and terrain estimation. This area asks what the environment and robot are like now. Sensor hardware design belongs under Robot hardware and key components.
35 selected · 14 in the last 30 days
1X Technologies ·
1X releases 25-DOF tendon-driven dexterous hand for NEO humanoid robot
1X Technologies announced a 25-DOF tendon-driven dexterous hand for the NEO humanoid robot platform, which will ship with every NEO unit.
PKU EPIC Lab ·
WAM-TTT: Steering World-Action Models at Test Time by Watching Human Videos
PKU EPIC Lab proposes WAM-TTT, a test-time training framework that steers world-action models from raw human videos without robot actions, human-side annotations, or task-specific fine-tuning. The method absorbs human videos into a lightweight adaptive memory inside a frozen WAM through self-supervised video prediction, and uses a meta-training stage with paired human-robot data and a key-value memory reconstruction objective to align human demonstrations with robot behaviors. Experiments show it consistently outperforms in-context human-video conditioning baselines across diverse manipulation tasks and generalization settings.
蚂蚁灵波科技 · YouTube ·
LingBot-Depth 2.0 spatial perception model for robots released, can see through glass and mirrors
LingBot-Depth 2.0 has been released, a next-generation spatial perception model for robots that focuses on perception of glass, mirrors, and transparent objects. It was trained on 150M-scale data (50 times that of v1.0) and took first place in 12 of 16 depth completion benchmarks; on the hardest indoor scenes, depth error RMSE dropped from 0.132 to 0.062.
New Scientist Robots ·
Sony AI table tennis robot Ace defeats professional players; research published in Nature
Sony AI's autonomous table tennis robot Ace competed under the rules of Japan's professional table tennis league, defeating multiple elite and professional players; the research was published in Nature (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-026-10338-5).
Dexterity ·
Dexterity speeds up Foresight visual perception 17x with NVIDIA, from 1508ms to 90ms
Dexterity says that after NVIDIA acceleration, the visual perception pipeline of its world model Foresight cut per-cycle latency from 1508ms to 90ms, a 17x speedup.
Figure AI ·
Figure AI Releases Helix 02: A Full-Body Autonomous Control Model for Humanoid Robots
Figure AI has released Helix 02, extending control from the upper body to the entire humanoid robot and enabling continuous, integrated autonomous tasks combining locomotion and manipulation. It adds a new System 0 whole-body controller, trained on over 1,000 hours of human motion data and simulation-based reinforcement learning, which outputs joint commands at 1 kHz via a 10M-parameter network, replacing roughly 109,504 lines of hand-written C++ code; System 1 connects head-mounted vision, palm cameras, fingertip touch sensing, and proprioception, outputting whole-body joint targets at 200 Hz.
Sharpa ·
Sharpa announces mass production of SharpaWave dexterous hand, to exhibit at CES 2026
Sharpa announced that mass production of its flagship dexterous hand, SharpaWave, has begun, with early customers including global technology companies and research universities.
Figure AI ·
Figure AI releases third-generation humanoid robot Figure 03
Figure AI has released its third-generation humanoid robot, Figure 03, redesigned from the ground up for the Helix VLA model, the home, and large-scale mass production, covering both software and hardware.
LimX Dynamics ·
GVF-TAPE Algorithm from LimX Dynamics and Partners Accepted to CoRL 2025, Enabling Robots to Learn Manipulation from Video
The paper "Generative Visual Foresight Meets Task-Agnostic Pose Estimation in Robotic Table-top Manipulation," a collaboration between SUSTech CLEAR Lab, LimX Dynamics, and the University of Hong Kong, has been accepted to CoRL 2025.
线性资本 ·
Bot Auto completes first fully driverless truck real-world road test
Linear Capital portfolio company Bot Auto announced it has completed its first real-world road test in which the truck truly performed all operations on its own, with no one in the driver's seat, the back seat, or at a remote-control terminal, and no escort vehicle. During the test, the truck on a Texas highway handled scenarios including avoidance, detouring, merging, and responding to the appearance of a fire truck. The vehicle is equipped with 15 cameras, 8 lidars, and 3 millimeter-wave radars, with redundancy in perception, computing, actuation, and power supply; after the primary server is shut down it can switch to a backup server, and if the backup is also shut down, the vehicle control unit takes over to pull over and stop.
Figure AI ·
Figure launches Project Go-Big: Helix learns navigation zero-shot from human first-person video alone
Figure announced two advances in Project Go-Big: a partnership with Brookfield to build a large-scale humanoid pretraining dataset, with Brookfield holding over 100,000 homes, 500 million square feet of commercial office space, and 160 million square feet of logistics space; and Helix, after training on 100% first-person human video, responding to natural-language commands such as "go to the fridge" without any robot demonstrations, navigating cluttered real home environments.