Robotics researchers in academia including myself might be having a bit of an existential crisis watching systems like Astra get better so fast.
But academia has an unusual advantage: robots doing real science in physical labs.
That's why I'm excited about WetRobo 🧬🤖, where coding agents observe a wet lab, write + execute robot programs, and adapt through physical trial and error.
Paper: https://t.co/TZVEChgaDF
Code: https://t.co/KTO26qUEWL
For folks interested in robot safety: we believe MolmoAct2 is one of the most transparent robotics foundation models built to date.
Why? 🔍
Everything is open for inspection: every training data point, the LLMs used, and the full training code. MolmoAct2 also provides reasoning traces to inspect before actions are executed.
Check out MolmoAct2 👇
https://t.co/iyScKogwdK
TRON 2 VLA Demo – EP.4: Autonomous Drawer Opening and Toy Retrieval
TRON 2 autonomously opens a drawer and retrieves a toy using VLA: identify the drawer → pull it open → locate the target object → retrieve it precisely.
This demo completes an entire temporally constrained task sequence. The robot must determine the correct order of actions—one wrong step, and it cannot retrieve the toy.
#EmbodiedAI #DualArmRobot #Robotics #TRON2 #VLA
SoftBank GroupがHyundai Motor GroupからRobotics and AI Institute(RAI)を買収することで合意したと報じられた。
金額などの条件は非公表で、CFIUSの審査を経る段階とのこと。
以前から噂されていた案件が実際に動いた形で、大手同士のフィジカルAI再編が一段進んだ印象。
投資家との会話でも、こういう大型の動きが話題に上ることが増えてき��。
Astra outperforms Fable at robotic control!
We ran a controlled benchmark of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on our Pandroid robots across eight manipulation tasks. Astra completed 35% of attempts, Fable 15% (p≈0.001). Human teleoperators completed every task.
Jensen Huang: the time has come for robots and this could become the largest industry of all.
“By the end of this decade, the world is going to be at least 50 million workers short.”
“We’re probably gonna have to pay robots $50,000 a year to come to work.”
“Every car is already a robot.”
“Now we’re building general robots.”
“Physical AI and robotics are moving so fast.”
“Everybody pay attention to this space.”
“This could very well likely be the largest industry of all.”