Vals AI's CUA-Bench Humbles Every Frontier Agent Below 20 Points
Vals AI's new CUA-Bench pits frontier models against six commercial video games with only pixels in and keystrokes out, and every model scores below 20%.
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Figure's Helix 2.5 Cleans 30 Strangers' Homes It Has Never Seen
Figure's new humanoid policy walked into 30 unseen Bay Area homes and tidied, folded, and made beds with zero prior data from those spaces.
Odyssey Builds One AI Backbone to Control Robots, Cars, Drones, and Games
Odyssey unveils a single foundation world model that controls robots, humanoids, cars, drones, and video game characters with only hours of task data.
Engineer Rebuilds Pollen Robotics' Microduck From Simulator Files Alone
A solo developer reverse-engineered Pollen Robotics' closed hardware from its open MJCF sim files, publishing full assembly drawings, CAD, and electronics.
Kevin Zakka's mjbatch Runs 4,096 MuJoCo Worlds on CPU Threads at Once
Kevin Zakka's new library steps thousands of MuJoCo simulations in parallel on a single CPU, unlocking RL and MPC workloads without a GPU.
Cambridge Researchers' LiteReality-Agent Turns iPhone LiDAR Scans Into Editable 3D Code
LiteReality-Agent turns iPhone LiDAR scans of real rooms into editable, physics-ready 3D scenes represented as Python code that an agent iteratively refines.
Unitree's UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 Runs 64 Robot Tasks From One Set of Weights
Unitree open-sourced a 6B-parameter humanoid foundation model that runs 64 tasks with one network across grippers, dexterous hands, and full-body motion.
AI-FanGe's Microduck Lets You 3D Print a Walking Robot for Under $400
A hobbyist published a full DIY build kit for a Microduck-style RL biped robot, complete with a prebuilt SD image and MuJoCo training environment.
Unitree's UnifoLM-X2-1.0 Lets Humanoid Robots Fight With No Human Control
Unitree's UnifoLM-X2-1.0 lets humanoid robots spar autonomously by predicting the next few seconds of physics in real time.
NAVER Labs' BLASt3R Merges Live SLAM and 3D Reconstruction Into One Pipeline
A new hybrid Structure-from-Motion framework from NAVER Labs unifies real-time SLAM and offline reconstruction, beating even calibrated systems while running uncalibrated.
Google Research Maps 166,000 Neurons in a Fruit Fly Brain
Google Research and HHMI Janelia released a wiring diagram of 166,000 neurons and 125 million synapses spanning the male fruit fly brain and nerve cord.
Runway's GWM Worlds 2 Streams Interactive AI Worlds at 720p in Real Time
Runway's new general world model streams continuous 720p video and 48kHz audio in real time, taking text prompts and camera input as you play.
World Labs' Atlas Beats Specialized 3D Models With One Omni Model
World Labs unveiled Atlas, an omni world model that generates 1440p video with pixel-perfect camera control and reconstructs scenes in 3D from a handful of images.
Pollen Robotics Open-Sources Microduck, a Palm-Sized Robot That Walks and Self-Recovers
Pollen Robotics open-sourced Microduck, a 25 cm biped robot brain written in Rust that walks via reinforcement learning policies exported to ONNX.
ETH Zurich's Humanoid Robot Swings Across Monkey Bars in 14 of 15 Tries
A humanoid robot jumps onto monkey bars, swings across at half a meter per second, and drops safely, guided by raw lidar and a reinforcement-learned policy.
kimodo.cpp Brings NVIDIA's Kimodo Motion AI to Any GPU Without CUDA
A community port strips NVIDIA's text-to-motion diffusion model down to C++ and GGML, running SMPL-X skeleton generation on CPU or Vulkan.
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard Lets Claude Control Lab Robots Overnight
Anthropic unveils a shared specification that lets AI agents discover and safely operate lab and factory hardware, cutting weeks of integration to hours.
Figure's Index App Pays 44,000 People to Train Its Humanoid Robots
Figure emerges from stealth with a crowdsourced data engine capturing 30 minutes of human video every second across 108 countries, backed by a $1B spend commitment.
Meta Reveals Muse Spark 1.2's Multimodal Jump From 59.8 to 72.0 With Tools
Meta shared new benchmarks, robotics demos, and a real-world agent evaluation for Muse Spark 1.2, its coding-focused multimodal model ahead of an open-weights release.
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