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Embodied AI 101

Embodied AI 101

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Occamy-1.0: Teaching a 35B Agent to Finish the Job

Sep 19, 202630 min

Helix 2.5: The House Changed. The Policy Didn't.

Sep 18, 202612 min

The Hard Part Was the Stack: PI's Robot Goes to Work

Sep 16, 202612 min

ZDTaichu5.0-9B: Better Spatial Reasoning, an Unfinished Edge Story

Sep 16, 202613 min

Light-Loco-Parkour: Learning the Skill Is Only Half the Problem

Sep 15, 202628 min

OM-1: Human Skills, Many Bodies

Sep 15, 202629 min

Show-Harness Gives VLMs a Robot Keyboard

Sep 14, 202612 min

BridgeVLA++: Keep the Geometry, Give the Robot a Memory

Sep 14, 202629 min

The Sim-to-Real Gap Inside the Gearbox

Sep 13, 202628 min

A Stable Grasp Isn't Enough: Giving 6-DoF Grasping a Purpose

Sep 13, 202628 min

HiDream-O1-Embodied: A World Model Must Earn Its Actions

Sep 13, 202629 min

Axis's Real2Sim2Real Bet: Make the Data Prove Itself

Sep 13, 202613 min

A Rubik's Cube, Two Robot Hands, and One Category Error

Sep 12, 202630 min

UnifoLM: Predict the Interaction, Not the Whole World

Sep 12, 202633 min

Stop Making the Video Model Remember the World

Sep 11, 202632 min

Atlas Turns Phone Scans Into Robot Worlds—But Not Yet Into Physics

Sep 11, 202613 min

W²G-Net: Carrying Instance Identity from Shiny Scrap to the Gripper

Sep 10, 202633 min

When Avoidance Is Not Enough: T-CARE Gives UAV Swarms a Right-of-Way

Sep 10, 202633 min

Teaching Robots What "Better" Means

Sep 9, 202631 min

TANGO: Stop Treating a Humanoid Like a Disk on the Floor

Sep 9, 202629 min

Stop Teaching the VLA Your Camera: Robot-Centric Pointmaps as an Action-Aligned Visual Interface

Sep 8, 202631 min

One Policy, Many Bodies: Qwen-VLA's Bid to Unify Embodied AI

Sep 8, 202634 min

When the Simulator Lies About Friction: Physics as a Transfer Prior for Touch

Sep 7, 202630 min

Seeing Around Corners, Acting at the Edge: REACT as a VLA Safety Co-Pilot

Sep 7, 202633 min

RoboTok: Turning the Internet Into a Motion Search Engine for Dexterous Robots

Sep 6, 202630 min

VLAct: The VLA Backbone Is Not Just Plumbing

Sep 6, 202634 min

Two Models, One Gradient: Making World-Model RL Work for Contact-Rich Robots

Sep 5, 202633 min

GigaBrain-0.7: Scaling Robot Intelligence by Separating Acting, Thinking, and Imagining

Sep 5, 202634 min

Geometry Is the Contact Plan: Bringing Surface Reasoning Into MPC

Sep 4, 202634 min

A Swarm That Knows Its Margin: Safe Multi-Drone Transport With CBF-RL

Sep 4, 202630 min

The Optimizer Becomes a Policy: Inside RP-1's Learned Planner for Robot World Models

Sep 3, 202630 min

SAGA: Ground the Affordance, Then Learn the Motion

Sep 3, 202632 min

REMAC: Turning Robot Failures into Better Team Plans

Sep 3, 202631 min

Restore the Sensor Contract: Training-Free Robustness for Brittle VLA Policies

Sep 2, 202631 min

Before the Robot Touches Anything: Physics-Grounded Deliberation with Embodied Tree of Thoughts

Sep 2, 202631 min

MemoAct: Why Robot Memory Needs Both a Scratchpad and an Archive

Sep 1, 202634 min

When Touch Means Something: OmniVTLA and the Missing Contact Layer in Robot Foundation Models

Sep 1, 202633 min

Gaussians as State, Futures as Supervision: Inside GSP-3D

Aug 31, 202633 min

SIRModel and the Missing Geometry Layer in Vision–Language Manipulation

Aug 31, 202630 min

The Robot That Knows When to Think Twice: Inside τ0-VLA

Aug 30, 202633 min

When Should a Robot Stop Imagining? RISE and Adaptive World-Action Planning

Aug 30, 202629 min

The Crib as a Causal Laboratory: How a Playing iCub Learns "I Did That"

Aug 29, 202629 min

Feeling Around Corners: STRP Compresses Fingertip Force into Directional Touch

Aug 29, 202631 min

Give the Swarm a Pheromone Compass

Aug 28, 202629 min

When Every Weld Looks the Same: Language-Labeled Graphs for Industrial Localization

Aug 28, 202636 min

When Robot Eyes Converge: Active Stereo for Humanoid Depth

Aug 27, 202626 min

Two Clocks for Touch: How T-Rex Gives Dexterous VLAs a Reflex Arc

Aug 27, 202633 min

Let the VLM Decide, Let the Planner Drive: Inside Senna

Aug 26, 202631 min

Seeing the Nearly Invisible: Stereo Vision for Cable-Safe Agricultural UAVs

Aug 26, 202631 min

Taming the Flying Tip: Constrained MPC for Dynamic Deformable Linear Objects

Aug 25, 202632 min