News / #robotics Tag Robotics 418 articles archived under #robotics · RSS Sign in to follow r/MachineLearning community 1d 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 1d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 3d 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 4d 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 4d 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 4d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 6d 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 7d 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 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 8d ago τ_0-VLA: a Hierarchical Robot Foundation Model with World-Model-Guided Test-Time Computation Abstract A hierarchical vision-language-action model improves long-horizon robot manipulation by using world-model-guided test-time search to scale computation for high-level subtask decisions. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Long-horizon robot manipulation requires… 5 The Information — AI news-outlet 8d ago The New Robotics ‘Arms Race’: Who Can Do the Craziest Hype Video? A couple months ago, a humanoid robot was dispatched to the top of Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo, the surface point farthest from the center of the planet. It was a stunt arranged by Geologic Dome, a nonprofit that uses AI and robotics for nature conservation, which had obtained… 8 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 8d ago GOAG: Generative and Object-Agnostic Grasp Planner for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation Abstract GOAG is an object-agnostic deep generative grasp planner that learns a gripper-specific contact surface distribution to sample valid grasps for unseen objects without object-specific training. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Multifingered grasping is a… 35 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 9d ago EXIMO: VLM Guided Exploration of VLA Policies Abstract EXIMO efficiently fine-tunes large vision-language-action robot policies by combining VLM-guided exploration, imitation on orchestrated data, and residual off-policy reinforcement learning. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small How to efficiently finetune robot… 6 arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago SCAPE: Scenario-Conditioned Simulation-Augmented Policy Evaluation arXiv:2608.19425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable performance evaluation is a central bottleneck for deploying robot-learning policies in real-world conditions. Real-world testing is faithful but costly and difficult to scale, whereas simulation-based testing scales… 6 arXiv — Machine Learning research 9d ago Fine-Tuning VLAs with Self-Demonstrated Generative Control for Multi-Task Manipulation arXiv:2608.19490v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State-of-the-art vision-language-action (VLA) models such as $\pi_{0.5}$ exhibit strong semantic understanding, instruction following and task behavior. However, when deployed on new robots, even minor mismatches in hardware… 5 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 9d ago NepOOC-M: Bilingual Nepali-English Benchmark and Comparative Analysis of Multimodal Architectures for OOC Detection arXiv:2608.19212v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Out-of-context (OOC) misinformation pairs authentic images with misleading captions to construct false narratives without image manipulation, making detection a problem of multimodal alignment rather than image forensics. Despite… 20 The Information — AI news-outlet 9d ago Robots Are in Their GPT-2 Era It’s no secret that AI-powered robots aren’t so good yet. They struggle with a broad range of simple tasks, from untangling cables to chopping vegetables. Nonetheless, morale is high among roboticists who are flush with venture cash as they work toward a “ ChatGPT moment ” when… 4 arXiv — Machine Learning research 10d ago Allocating Recurrent Compute in Looped Language Models arXiv:2608.18230v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Looped language models improve reasoning and knowledge manipulation by applying shared computation repeatedly. Existing systems usually repeat an entire layer stack, although a mixer and a dense feed-forward network (FFN) perform… 12 arXiv — Machine Learning research 10d ago FedLNS: Leverage LayerNorm Signature Modeling to Mitigate Adversarial Manipulation in Federated LLMs arXiv:2608.18736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated training enables language models to learn from distributed private text, but the server cannot directly verify the local supervision or optimization process that produces each client update. A malicious client can… 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 10d ago MicroPython and CircuitPython: Pythons Quiet Takeover of IoT and Robotics arXiv:2608.18160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Background: Python has become the dominant language in software and data science, yet embedded systems have remained tied to C/C++ due to performance and memory constraints. MicroPython and CircuitPython are changing this by… 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 10d ago Multimodal Rapport Estimation in Real-World HRI arXiv:2608.18401v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating interaction quality in real-world HRI is an important challenge. If interaction quality can be estimated reliably, the results can be used to improve dialogue strategies and ultimately enable robots to adapt their… 28 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 10d ago Zetta ζ: An Efficient Closed-Loop Embodied Harness for Self-Evolving Physical Intelligence Abstract Zetta is a closed-loop embodied harness that evolves runtime critics and recovery skills online to govern physical execution at action frequency, achieving high success on robot benchmarks with faster inference and scaling self-exploration. Generated by… 36 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 10d ago SoftVTBench: A Deformation-Aware Visuo-Tactile Dataset and Benchmark for Deformable-Object Manipulation Abstract SoftVTBench introduces a synchronized visuo-tactile dataset and deformation-aware benchmark for evaluating physical interaction quality during deformable-object manipulation. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Physical interaction quality is central to… 24 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 10d ago Developing NVIDIA Holoscan Applications with CLI, Skills, and AI Coding Agents NVIDIA Holoscan is a platform for building real-time AI applications at the edge, from medical imaging to robotics. HoloHub is its companion repository: a... 18 NVIDIA Developer Blog official-blog 10d ago Post-Train NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Edge for On-Device Robot Control Robots need policies that can adapt to their sensors, environments, and tasks while running on onboard computing hardware. World models offer a foundation for... 24 The Information — AI news-outlet 11d ago Chinese Humanoid Maker Unitree Shares Soar on Shanghai Debut Shares of Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics soared on the debut on the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Wednesday, after raising 6.1 billion yuan ($905 million) in an initial public offering. The shares surged more than seven times its IPO price before closing 460% up,… 20 arXiv — Machine Learning research 11d ago VLCP: Vision Language Control Policy Closed-Loop Code Replanning for Robot Manipulation arXiv:2608.16978v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Turning a frontier vision-language model into a robot policy usually means fine-tuning it to emit an action representation it never saw in pretraining, which throws away much of the reasoning that made the model worth reaching… 13 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 12d ago FollowUpBot: An LLM-Based Conversational Robot for Automatic Postoperative Follow-up arXiv:2507.15502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Postoperative follow-up plays a crucial role in monitoring recovery and identifying complications. However, traditional approaches, typically involving bedside interviews and manual documentation, are time-consuming and… 5 Ars Technica — AI news-outlet 12d ago Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts “We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.” 36 Page 1 of 9 · 418 articles Older →
