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Embodied AI 101

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PointWAM: Does 3D World Modeling Improve Dexterous Manipulation?

Oct 12, 202630 min

Mulligan: Can Failure-Focused Data Improve Robot Imitation Learning?

Oct 11, 202627 min

SOLE-R1: Can Video-Language Rewards Train Manipulation Policies?

Oct 11, 202628 min

Odyssey-3: Does a Physics-IQ World Model Transfer to Real Robots?

Oct 10, 202630 min

Long-WAM: Does Longer Visual Context Improve Real-Time Robot Control?

Oct 10, 202628 min

WR1.0: Does Whole-Body Humanoid Control Prove Generalization?

Oct 9, 202629 min

WorldGuide: Better Video Planning, Not Proven Robot Control

Oct 9, 202628 min

R2SGen: Can Constraint Solving Improve Real-to-Sim Driving Scenarios?

Oct 8, 202628 min

Humanoid Scooter Control: Does Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning Work?

Oct 8, 202629 min

ENPIRE: Can Coding Agents Improve Real-World Robot Manipulation?

Oct 7, 202627 min

GAS-Robo: Can Grid Actions Improve LLM-Driven Manipulation?

Oct 7, 202628 min

Four Keypoints, One Careful Pour: Connecting Language to Precise Robot Motion

Oct 6, 202629 min

PEAfowl: Helping Two Arms Agree on What They See

Oct 6, 202631 min

MotorMind: Giving a Frozen VLM the Controls

Oct 5, 202628 min

MAPF-World: Why a Little Foresight Can Beat a Bigger Policy

Oct 5, 202628 min

Digit Leaves the Lab: The Real Lesson of 500 Demonstrations

Oct 4, 202629 min

VLS: Steering Frozen Robot Policies Without Retraining

Oct 4, 202628 min

CAST: Making Language Matter to Robot Policies

Oct 3, 202630 min

When the Command Disappears: What Counts as Robot Intelligence?

Oct 3, 202628 min

Fast Plans Are Not Enough: Does the Robot Actually Use Its Plan?

Oct 2, 202630 min

Atlas's New Hands: Built to Learn, Not Just to Look Human

Oct 2, 202610 min

Astra Gets a Body: What Zero-Shot Humanoid Control Actually Transfers

Oct 1, 202628 min

Physical Coding: Robots That Check Their Work—and Keep the Fixes

Sep 30, 202629 min

SpatialClaw: Give the VLM a Geometry Notebook

Sep 30, 202626 min

Real-Time EXPO-FT: Slow VLA, Fast Corrections, Better Control

Sep 29, 202629 min

Aether: From Plausible Futures to Feasible Robot Plans

Sep 29, 202628 min

ARLI: Fixing the Missing State in Asynchronous Robot RL

Sep 28, 202627 min

Flex-π: Teach Geometry, Choose How Much to Imagine

Sep 28, 202629 min

SkipVLA: Let the Planner Move, Let the VLA Manipulate

Sep 27, 202628 min

ForeDrive: A World Model Is Only Useful If It Changes the Plan

Sep 27, 202628 min

DO AS I DO: Making Human Video Executable

Sep 26, 202629 min

GAM: Ground the Target Before You Learn the Action

Sep 26, 202630 min

Tune Slowly, Control Quickly: Learning a Better Robot Navigation Stack

Sep 25, 202628 min

THAW-VLA: World-Model Features Without World-Model Latency

Sep 24, 202629 min

Joga: Why a Soccer Humanoid Needs to Control Its Gaze

Sep 24, 202628 min

AthenaZero: Why Dynamic Manipulation Starts With Lower Inertia

Sep 23, 202629 min

FROA-Drive and the Hard Part of Targeted Policy Repair

Sep 23, 202629 min

Teach the Robot Where to Act—Then Make It Fast

Sep 22, 202628 min

HEAR: The Sound Your Robot Missed Between Actions

Sep 22, 202628 min

VS-Splat: Learning Where 3D Detail Belongs

Sep 20, 202629 min

Spatial Search Comes to Quest — Beyond Pretty Gaussian Splats

Sep 20, 202613 min

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