Manipulation is harder when the robot flies. 🚁
Moving the arm can shift the drone, and wind can push it off course. The policy and controller have to work together.
Here's AM-Bench: A Simulation Suite and Benchmark for Aerial Manipulation
https://t.co/O8uRFIITtB
#CoRL2026
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た。