News / #robotics Tag Robotics 438 articles archived under #robotics · RSS Sign in to follow TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 4h ago Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business The Uber founder has said that Atoms will allow him to complete "unfinished business." 21 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 19h ago GPT-6 Astra on robot arms Article URL: https://openai.robocurve.org/gpt-6-astra/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582582 Points: 204 # Comments: 155 30 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 1d ago RoboTok: An Internet-Scale Data Engine for Human Demonstration Retrieval and Dexterous Manipulation Learning Abstract RoboTok retrieves relevant human manipulation videos from the web using a latent motion space derived from 3D hand trajectories to improve robot policy training. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Robot learning increasingly depends on broad and diverse… 6 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 1d ago XDOF, just three months out of stealth, is in talks for a Series B at a $1.2B valuation The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth. 6 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 3d ago Does Imitation Learning Preserve Temporal Robustness in Dexterous Manipulation? An Expert-Learner Comparison Across Task Execution Speeds Abstract Imitation-learned dexterous manipulation policies degrade more sharply than expert policies when execution speed increases, with insertion misalignment being the primary failure mode. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Dexterous manipulation policies learned by… 21 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 3d ago TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two. 23 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 4d ago Exploring Collaboration between a language and a non-language agent arXiv:2609.00474v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are increasingly deployed as orchestrators that coordinate specialized subagents to solve complex tasks through natural language. However, in many important domains like game playing and robotics, the strongest available… 17 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 4d ago ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training Abstract ZimaBlue learns generalizable world action models from large-scale egocentric video via a three-stage curriculum and a slow-fast architecture, substantially improving zero-shot robotic manipulation. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Robotic manipulation faces… 12 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 5d ago LightNav-0: Eliciting VLM Spatial Intelligence for Generalist Embodied Navigation Abstract LightNav-0 is a compact generalist navigation model that leverages a pretrained vision-language model’s spatial reasoning via unified pointing tokens and action tokenization to achieve state-of-the-art embodied navigation across diverse tasks and robots. Generated by… 34 arXiv — Machine Learning research 5d ago Fully Distributed GNE Algorithms for Multi-Robot Placement without Consensus on Multipliers arXiv:2608.29388v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent machine learning research has increasingly focused on equilibrium analysis in non-cooperative games rather than solely on optimal solutions. Many such problems involve shared constraints and can be formulated as Generalized… 8 arXiv — Machine Learning research 5d ago Asynchronous Cooperative Online Learning for Multi-Robot Control under Computational Delays arXiv:2608.29562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ensuring the safe operation of multi-agent systems (MASs) under uncertain environments is crucial for cooperative robotic, where external disturbances and inaccurate dynamic models can significantly compromise performance and… 23 The Information — AI news-outlet 6d ago FTC Sues Amazon, Alleging Ad Price Manipulation The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from 22 states sued Amazon for overcharging its advertising customers by allegedly manipulating ad auctions. Advertisers promoting their products on Amazon’s marketplace buy ad spots where the price is set in auctions. In the… 35 The Information — AI news-outlet 6d ago Exclusive: Reframe Raises Funds to Bring Amazon Robotics Know-How to Home Building For all the talk of robots that look like humans, the next robots to move into people’s houses could look more like ducks. Sales of such a robot, made by open-source model platform Hugging Face , reached more than $2.5 million on its first day on Thursday. Microduck , which… 21 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 6d ago Act with Intent: Distilling Behavior Intent for Vision-Language-Action Models Abstract Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models can turn multimodal context into robot actions, but their action decoders are still trained largely by behavior cloning. This supervises which motor command was demonstrated while leaving implicit the local objective served by the… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 6d ago When Robots Mishear Us: Mapping the Safety Risks of Voice-Controlled Embodied AI arXiv:2608.28518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether automatic speech recognition (ASR) errors in user input can lead to unsafe outputs from Embodied AI (EAI) models. We find that ASR errors can lead to harmful instructions being accepted and executed by EAI… 38 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 6d ago The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere. 11 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 6d ago Beyond Data Scaling: Representation-Centric Continued Pre-training for Vision-Language-Action Models Abstract VLAct improves vision-language-action model performance by pre-training on diverse robot data with preserved vision-language priors and shared action semantics, achieving strong results across simulations and unseen embodiments with limited compute. Generated by… 32 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 6d ago PonderPounce: A Pretrained MLLM as an Episode Context Engine for Robot Control Abstract PonderPounce leverages native causal context in multimodal language models as robot episode memory, jointly training a reasoning System2 module and a fast System1 action model to improve long-horizon policy performance without dedicated memory architectures. Generated… 14 r/LocalLLaMA community 7d ago We used HFlow to evaluate the latest open weights VLMs for processing egocentric data We used HFlow to evaluate the latest open weights VLMs for processing egocentric data. This was based on Build AI's Egocentric-10k evaluation , which used Gemini 2.5 Flash to measure hand visibility and active manipulation. We kept the same prompts and the same dataset, only… 17 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 7d ago Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians. 28 r/MachineLearning community 8d ago PhD Internship in smaller lab [D] How much of a disadvantage is it if your only internship is not at one of the big frontier labs when it comes to post-phd opportunities in robotics/ML? My PhD is at a top university (UK) and my internship is interesting and relevant but the team itself is smaller and it's no… 30 The Information — AI news-outlet 8d ago Andreessen Horowitz Raises $1.1 Billion for AI Hardware Fund Andreessen Horowitz raised $1.1 billion for a fund that will invest in physical AI and infrastructure startups, the firm announced Friday. The money will be used to back companies building chips, memory, networking, storage and other companies involved in the AI buildout.… 15 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 9d ago TacForcing: Streaming Action Generation with Execution-Time Tactile Feedback Abstract TacForcing is a streaming action-generation framework that integrates real-time tactile feedback during execution via a streaming action expert and execution-aware tactile attention, improving contact-rich manipulation. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small… 9 arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago Ultra Low-Power, Lightweight, Probabilistic RSS-Based Path Reconstruction: A System for Landscape-Scale Bee Tracking arXiv:2608.27152v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Applications in fields such as movement ecology, Internet of Things or robotics share the need for systems that localize devices that are too small and power constrained to implement GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems).… 37 arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago Diffusion Policies for Short-Horizon Planning in Robot Crowd Navigation arXiv:2608.27158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot crowd navigation requires safe and efficient decision-making under dense, dynamic, and multimodal human--robot interactions. Existing reinforcement-learning methods typically output a single reactive action at each timestep,… 10 arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago Making Latent Evolution Explicit: Operator-Structured Transitions for World Action Models arXiv:2608.27259v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) augment robot policies by predicting how task-relevant scene states may evolve under interaction. Recent WAMs increasingly perform such prediction in latent representation spaces, avoiding full… 30 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 9d ago Zero-WAM: In-Context World-Action Modeling from Human Videos for Open-Ended Task Generalization Abstract Zero-WAM enables robotic manipulation of unseen tasks by conditioning a causal video-action model on in-context human video guidance, supported by an automatically generated dataset and a future-chunk prediction objective. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small… 21 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 10d ago Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck Hugging Face is taking orders for the Microduck, a $399 tiny open-source duck robot that developers can train at home out of the box. 37 r/LocalLLaMA community 10d ago Microduck by Pollen Robotics & Hugging Face Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face are releasing an open-source bipedal robot that comes with reinforcement learning software. It looks like it has a speaker, camera + LiDAR, NFC, Wifi, Bluetooth, etc. And roller-skates, because that's just the cutest thing ever. They announced it… 19 Hacker News — AI on Front Page community 10d ago Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck Article URL: https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462763 Points: 205 # Comments: 72 21 The Information — AI news-outlet 10d ago SoftBank Explores Buying Majority Stake in 1X Humanoid Maker SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X Technologies, an OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer, The Information reported late Wednesday . The investment would support SoftBank’s robotics ambition and give 1X more runway to put its soft-bodied bots in customers’… 20 arXiv — Machine Learning research 10d ago Simultaneous inference of environmental and interaction forces in collective dynamics arXiv:2608.25181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collective dynamics arise in a wide range of physical, biological, and engineering applications. Examples include cell migration, swarm robotics, social dynamics, and animal behavior. A defining characteristic of these systems is… 15 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 10d ago StreamPI: Streaming Multimodal Temporal Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models Abstract StreamPI enhances single-frame vision-language-action models with streaming temporal reasoning via instruction-anchored attention and randomized interval training, improving robot manipulation without extra parameters. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small… 6 The Information — AI news-outlet 10d ago SoftBank in Talks to Buy Majority Stake in Humanoid Maker 1X at $6 Billion Valuation SoftBank is in talks to buy a majority stake in 1X Technologies, an OpenAI-backed humanoid robot developer, in a deal that would value the startup at about $6 billion, according to people with knowledge of the deal. The investment would buttress SoftBank’s robotics ambition. The… 21 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 11d ago How to Train a Cross-Embodiment Robot Navigation Policy with AI Agents Navigation enables a robot to turn perception and motion into purposeful autonomy. Unlike locomotion, which produces stable movement, navigation must be used to... 7 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before. 30 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up. 6 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 11d ago Latent Action as Intention Enables Efficient Future Imagination for World Action Models Abstract LAWA improves robot control by using compact latent actions to retain efficient future imagination without generating observations, achieving strong performance with lower latency. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small World action models (WAMs) improve robot… 6 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 11d ago Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation. 27 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 12d ago World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames Record-breaking robot races are less substantial than household chore challenges. 12 MIT Technology Review — AI news-outlet 12d ago I spent a day at a robot “carnival” in Shanghai. Here’s what I saw. Humanoid robots are having a moment in China. The popular machines are part of the country’s strategy to bring artificial intelligence into daily life. Embedding the technology into physical systems—an idea called embodied AI—was a key facet of China’s latest five-year plan, and… 28 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 12d ago Whitewashing Hate, Smearing Harmless Content: Annotator-Style Rebuttal Attacks on LLM-Based Moderation arXiv:2608.22230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for hate speech moderation, often within human--AI workflows in which reviewers provide feedback before a final decision. Such feedback introduces two manipulation directions:… 35 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 13d ago PhysCaP: Grounding Code-as-Policy Agent with Physics-Informed Exploration Abstract PhysCaP is a physics-informed code-generation agent that actively explores objects to infer hidden physical properties for efficient robotic manipulation. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small We present PhysCaP, a Physics-Informed Code-as-Policy agent for active… 11 TechCrunch — AI news-outlet 13d ago Valor, Point72 back General Intuition at $6B valuation as AI startup pushes into robotics General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, Seven Seven Six. 19 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 13d ago Hydra-0: Action Flow for Generalist World Modeling and Control Abstract Hydra-0 uses action flow as a shared visual interface for generalist world modeling and robot control across diverse embodiments and tasks. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small We introduce Hydra-0, a generalist world model conditioned on action flow, which… 21 Smol AI News news-outlet 13d ago not much happened today **Microduck**, a **25 cm open-source biped robot** from **Pollen Robotics** and **Hugging Face**, priced at **$399** and shipping before Christmas, features **15 actuators** and a rich sensor suite including camera, LiDAR, NFC, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. It supports… 32 arXiv — Machine Learning research 13d ago Keyed Provenance Watermarking with Complementary Lattice-Based Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning arXiv:2608.20580v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated learning (FL) is vulnerable to multi-level attacks. However, existing methods address them separately, leaving FL exposed to data leakage, unauthorized reuse, and malicious gradient manipulation. In this work, we… 26 arXiv — Machine Learning research 13d ago Rethinking Demonstration Unlearning in Imitation Learning for Robotics arXiv:2608.20784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation learning for robotics depends on human demonstrations, some of which people may later ask to remove. Retraining without them is the natural reference, but its cost grows with policy and dataset scale, motivating cheaper… 12 The Information — AI news-outlet 14d ago Why Unitree’s 460% IPO Stock Pop Wasn’t Unusual in China Humanoid robot maker Unitree’s 460% surge in its Shanghai stock market debut on Wednesday was the latest in a series of eye-watering first trading-day pops fetched by some recent tech initial public offerings in mainland China’s stock market. It followed last month’s debut of… 37 The Information — AI news-outlet 15d ago America Really, Really Hates Data Centers • The Big Read: AI promises to cure cancer. Scientists feel existential dread • The new robotics ‘ arms race ’: Who can do the craziest hype video? • Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “ Dan Taberski’s Manifesto ,” “ A Tender Age ” and “ The End of Oak Street ”… 18 Page 1 of 9 · 438 articles Older →
