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GaitSpan Grows Humanoid Walk Into Run Without Retraining
GaitSpan delivers a single policy spanning walk-to-run without motion capture or multi-expert distillation.
Read →Jetson-PI Hits 8.66x VLA Speedup on Jetson Orin
Jetson-PI achieves 8.66x control frequency gain on NVIDIA Jetson Orin, beating VLASH by 14.8% on the LIBERO benchmark.
Read →2x VLA Speedup at 98% Success Rate: New Paper
Researchers cut VLA inference compute by over 2x on manipulation benchmarks while hitting 98% success rate.
Read →TrustVLA Defends VLA Models From Backdoor Attacks
TrustVLA detects and neutralizes visual backdoor triggers in VLA models at inference time—no retraining required.
Read →VistaVLA Cuts 3D Tokens 99% While Lifting Manipulation Accuracy
VistaVLA embeds 3D Gaussian scene representations into VLA policy learning, achieving 22.8% higher real-world task success.
Read →VIA Gets 96.7% on LIBERO Zero-Shot via Browser UI
Stanford's VIA framework hits 96.7% on LIBERO-Goal tasks using frontier LLMs and a browser UI — no robot fine-tuning required.
Read →VLAC-Cut Boosts VLA Post-Training to 95% Success
VLAC-Cut trajectory curation drives 80–95% task success and up to 4.2× throughput gains in VLA post-training.
Read →CLAP Hits 90.8% on LIBERO with 2B VLA Model
CLAP converts pretrained VLMs into VLAs with no backbone changes, hitting 90.8% on LIBERO with a 2B model.
Read →Mitsubishi Motors Partners With Highlanders on Humanoid Production
Mitsubishi Motors signs MOU with Japanese startup Highlanders to deploy humanoids and potentially manufacture them at its Kyoto plant by early 2027.
Read →Ukraine's Brave1 Funds Combat Humanoids Built for Trenches
Ukraine's Brave1 opens grants for combat-exclusive bipedal robots — the first such program globally, exposing a deep gap between factory-floor humanoids and battlefield hardware.
Read →AI² Robotics Raises $735M at $2.8B Valuation
Shenzhen's AI² Robotics closes ~$735M at a $2.8B valuation, betting wheeled humanoids beat bipeds to industrial scale.
Read →HumoSlope Climbs 32.1° Slopes Without Cameras
HumoSlope framework enables blind humanoid traversal of outdoor grass slopes up to 62.7% grade using proprioception alone.
Read →VLA Confidence Is Not Consent: Initiation Safety Gap
A new arXiv paper argues humanoid safety stacks miss a critical layer: should the robot act at all?
Read →DexTele Tackles Cross-Platform Motion Retargeting for Dual-Arm Teleoperation
DexTele combines vision-based motion retargeting with VLM-driven adaptive force control to solve cross-platform dual-arm teleoperation.
Read →RynnWorld-Teleop Hits 40+ FPS Digital Teleoperation
RynnWorld-Teleop generates robot training data at 40+ FPS on a single H100, decoupling demos from physical hardware.
Read →GigaWorld-1 Benchmarks 324K Robot Rollouts for Policy Eval
GigaWorld-1 uses 324K simulated rollouts and 12,000+ hours of video to benchmark world models as robot policy evaluators.
Read →Atlas Delivers World Cup Match Ball at Brazil vs Norway
Boston Dynamics' Atlas handed the match ball to the referee at halftime of Brazil vs. Norway, which Norway won 2-1.
Read →SKF Takes 60% Stake in Leaderdrive JV for Humanoid Joints
SKF takes 60% stake in China-based Leaderdrive JV targeting high-precision transmission components for humanoid robot joints.
Read →Realbotix's $125K Humanoid Has Jokes, Not Empathy
Realbotix's $125K humanoid Aria delivers sharp humor but fails basic emotion recognition — a telling gap for a $125K companion robot.
Read →CoFL-S Flow Fields Beat Action Tokens in VLN Navigation
CoFL-S predicts language-conditioned flow fields over a robot's local sector, beating action-token and action-chunk baselines across planner frequencies.
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