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S1E73 Episode 73: Titan of the Factory Floor: Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Steps into Production
# Titan of the Factory Floor: Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Steps into Production *Boston Dynamics Unveils New Atlas Robot to Revolutionize Industry • Boston Dynamics (Hyundai/DeepMind partnership) • Jan.…
S1E72 Episode 72: InternVLA-A1: Unifying Understanding, Generation and Action for Robot Manipulation
# InternVLA-A1: Unifying Understanding, Generation and Action for Robot Manipulation InternVLA-A1: Unifying Understanding, Generation and Action for Robotic Manipulation • InternRobotics (Shanghai…
S1E71 Episode 71: Large Video Planner: Instruction-Guided Video Plans for General Robot Control
In “Large Video Planner Enables Generalizable Robot Control” (Chen *et al.*, 2025) the authors propose a new paradigm for robot planning: train a **massive video generative model** on diverse human…
S1E70 Episode 70: Humanoid Moves or Just Movie Magic? Unitree’s H2 Demo Sparks Debate
*“Unitree Humanoid Robot Training” • Reddit/r/robotics discussion • Jan 4, 2026* In late December 2025, Chinese firm Unitree Robotics posted a video of its new full-size H2 humanoid performing…
S1E69 Episode 69: Unitree’s “Embodied Avatar”: A Full-Body Teleoperation Data Engine
# Unitree’s “Embodied Avatar”: A Full-Body Teleoperation Data Engine *Original source: “Embodied Avatar: Full-body Teleoperation Platform” • Unitree Robotics • Nov 06, 2025* In a new demo called…
S1E68 Episode 68: Galaxea Open-Sources G0-Plus VLA Model, Demos “Pick Up Anything”
*Open-sourced G0 Plus VLA & “Pick Up Anything” demo • Galaxea Dynamics • Jan 2026* Galaxea Dynamics has just thrown open its doors: they’ve released the code and pretrained weights of their G0…
S1E67 Episode 67: Backpack Lab: AgiBot’s 0.8m Q1 Mini-Humanoid
*Q1: Agibot unveils mini humanoid robot that can fit in a backpack • Interesting Engineering (IE Media) • Jan 1, 2026* Chinese startup AgiBot (also known as Zhiyuan Robotics) has introduced a…
S1E66 Episode 66: DiffThinker: Diffusion-based Generative Multimodal Reasoning
# DiffThinker: Diffusion-based Generative Multimodal Reasoning The legend of AI reasoning has long revolved around humans picturing solutions in their heads – an inherently visual process. Modern…
S1E65 Episode 65: Seeing with Language: A Deep Dive into Vision Encoders for Multimodal AI
# Seeing with Language: A Deep Dive into Vision Encoders for Multimodal AI In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have dazzled us with their ability to generate text, follow instructions, and…
S1E64 Episode 64: GenieReasoner: Bridging Vision–Language Reasoning and Robot Control
# GenieReasoner: Bridging Vision–Language Reasoning and Robot Control General-purpose robots need to both **think broadly** about language and vision, and also **execute precisely** in the physical…
S1E63 Episode 63: Robo-Dopamine: Dense Reward Learning for High-Precision Robot Manipulation
# Robo-Dopamine: Dense Reward Learning for High-Precision Robot Manipulation In a recent preprint (Tan et al., *Robo-Dopamine: General Process Reward Modeling for High-Precision Robotic…
S1E62 Episode 62: AstraNav-Memory: Compressing Visual Context for Lifelong Navigation
# AstraNav-Memory: Compressing Visual Context for Lifelong Navigation Recent work by Botao Ren, Junjun Hu, Xinda Xue and others (Alibaba’s Amap, Tsinghua, Peking) introduces **AstraNav-Memory:…
S1E61 Episode 61: DexWM: World Models for Dexterous Manipulation from Human Videos
# DexWM: World Models for Dexterous Manipulation from Human Videos Dexterous manipulation – the art of using multi-fingered hands to pick, place, twist, or otherwise manipulate objects – remains a…
S1E60 Episode 60: Video-Action Models: Generalizing Robot Control with Video Diffusion
# Video-Action Models: Generalizing Robot Control with Video Diffusion In a new preprint titled *“mimic-video: Video-Action Models for Generalizable Robot Control Beyond VLAs”* (Pai et al., arXiv 25…
S1E59 Episode 59: Calibrated Confidence in Controllable Video Models
# Calibrated Confidence in Controllable Video Models In the recent preprint *“World Models That Know When They Don't Know: Controllable Video Generation with Calibrated Uncertainty”* (Mei et al.,…
S1E57 Episode 57: Scaling Up Offline Model-Based RL with Action Chunks (MAC)
# Scaling Up Offline Model-Based RL with Action Chunks (MAC) In *“Scalable Offline Model-Based RL with Action Chunks”* (Park et al., 2025) – by Kwanyoung Park, Seohong Park, Youngwoon Lee, and…
S1E56 Episode 56: Emergent Human-to-Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models
# Emergent Human-to-Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action Models **Simar Kareer, Karl Pertsch, James Darpinian, Judy Hoffman, Danfei Xu, Sergey Levine, Chelsea Finn, Suraj Nair Physical…
S1E55 Episode 55: DexScrew: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from “Imperfect” Simulations
# DexScrew: Learning Dexterous Manipulation from “Imperfect” Simulations *Learning Dexterous Manipulation Skills from Imperfect Simulations* is a recent preprint by Hsieh *et al.* (Dec 2025) from UC…
S1E54 Episode 54: X-Humanoid: Robotizing Human Videos into Humanoid Videos
# X-Humanoid: Robotizing Human Videos into Humanoid Videos A new preprint titled **“X-Humanoid: Robotize Human Videos to Generate Humanoid Videos at Scale”** (Pei Yang, Hai Ci, Yiren Song, Mike…
S1E53 Episode 53: Decoupled Q-Chunking: Combining Long-Range Value Propagation with Reactive Policies
# Decoupled Q-Chunking: Combining Long-Range Value Propagation with Reactive Policies In *Decoupled Q-Chunking* (Li, Park, Levine, 2025), the authors tackle a long-standing issue in reinforcement…
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