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Embodied

"Embodied" is a topic channel on AGI Hunt, an AI news site updated around the clock in real time. Coverage: Humanoid and embodied robotics (incl. research demos) and consumer AI hardware.

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• Unitree's Wang Xingxing: GPT-6 Astra handles robot painting and Go with no specialized training — Afinetheorem · 2026-10-24
• Rodney Brooks on Amazon's 1M robots: real-world deployment is the hard part — rodneyabrooks · 2026-10-24
• Freeform Preference Learning Lets Robot Annotators Compare Trajectories Along Natural-Language Axes — micoolcho · 2026-10-24
• Zhejiang's TARSphere Benchmarks Long-Horizon Embodied Agents Across 360 Episodes, 30 Scenes — Yicheng Xu · 2026-10-24
• The Bitter Lesson Hits Robotics: LLM Scores Double Every 54 Days as Speed Rises 4.4x — Miles_Brundage · 2026-10-24
• Builder pairs Grok Bot for firmware with locally-run Hermes Agent inside a Stack-chan robot — alexcovo_eth · 2026-10-24
• Chinese-built badminton robot tracks shuttlecock and returns shots in demo — LexiLove · 2026-10-24
• Nvidia CEO shows off 'Microducks' mini robot by Hugging Face and Pollen, under $400 — LexiLove · 2026-10-24
• PhoneGirl: A Cute Humanoid Robot That Uses Your Phone as Its Brain — _Stocko_ · 2026-10-24
• Matt Wolfe: Old Phones Are Being Turned Into Robots in Latest AI News Roundup — Matt Wolfe · 2026-10-24
• Developer finds Samsung TV records exactly 5 seconds of audio from fake mic — ngxson · 2026-10-24(3 related)
• Robotics practitioner: public VLA leaderboards are premature — paigeinsf · 2026-10-24(2 related)
• Claude designs a 200 lb-payload hexapod robot in one hour, with parts list — _Stocko_ · 2026-10-24
• iPhone Duo hands-on: stunning display but bulky and stiff — firstadopter · 2026-10-24(2 related)
• Rice & NVIDIA's Sensorimotor Alignment predicts robot policy success without training (r=0.717) — CSProfKGD · 2026-10-24
• Generative Trajectory Planning: robots learn to plan with world models instead of RL — du_yilun · 2026-10-24
• Hugging Face adds OpenUSD support as NVIDIA drops 2,500+ free SimReady 3D assets — Promptmethus · 2026-10-24
• NVIDIA's Robot Ducks Steal the Show in Charming Demo — johnkwaters · 2026-10-24
• Researcher Doubts LLMs Can Solve Robotic Dexterity, Challenges GPT-7 on Oil Pan Install — adam_karvonen · 2026-10-24
• K3.1 Pro Probes the Simulator Itself, Finds 36 Bugs in Shoulder-Muscle Math — AIFlow_ML · 2026-10-24
• Figure Claims 81 Minutes of Robot Data Per Second, Drawing Skepticism — coreylynch · 2026-10-24(3 related)
• Microduck founder clarifies viral Jensen Huang demo was human-teleoperated — FlolightC · 2026-10-24
• A Full AI Music Video Made Locally on DGX Spark With MiniMax H3 — Ornery-Block-3522 · 2026-10-24
• Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots as 20,000 units sell for Christmas — TechCrunch AI · 2026-10-24
• This all-in-one ESP32 pocket dev board is programmable by Codex and fits on a keychain — thesephist · 2026-10-24
• Hermes Watch: Open-source agent runs voice Q&A on an Amazfit smartwatch — Teknium · 2026-10-24
• ROSCon UK 2027 Set for Bristol, Global ROSCon Heads to Krakow in 2026 — kamathsblog · 2026-10-24
• GeoWind2Plan: seconds-scale 3D urban wind prediction for energy-efficient drones — AnimaAnandkumar · 2026-10-24
• Maker's too-heavy robot dog becomes the perfect excuse to make people come to him — StewartalsopIII · 2026-10-24
• Hugging Face CEO warns of scam sites selling Reachy Mini robots, orders ship before Christmas — victormustar · 2026-10-24
• Are robots under-discussed? Why LLMs can't directly control robots and VLAs may be the answer — Grouchy-Stranger-306 · 2026-10-24
• YC's robotic dinner party: fine-tuned pi0.5 robots pour lemonade fully autonomously — ycombinator · 2026-10-24
• AI researcher calls Devol Robotics demo the most impressive foundation model demo he's seen — chris_j_paxton · 2026-10-24
• Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics Expand Hiring as Open-Source Robots Go Viral — victormustar · 2026-10-24(2 related)
• At Shanghai's industry fair, sorting robots cut cycle time from 105s to 28s as agents enter factories — nordicinst · 2026-10-24
• Dream-1 model drives Trossen robot arms in real time to fold towels, stack blocks — kscottz · 2026-10-24
• WSJ's Joanna Stern mocks her $2,000 phone's parade of fake Duo accessories — SumitGup · 2026-10-24
• Open Robotics weekly: ROSCon UK wraps, ROSCon SG sells out, India announced — kscottz · 2026-10-24
• First open-weights motion tracker for small humanoids ports NVIDIA SONIC to Booster K1 — zhengyiluo · 2026-10-24
• Robot foundation model Dream-1 serves 1.5M inference calls in 4 days across 60 countries — gharik · 2026-10-24
• NVIDIA team recruiting 2027 interns for humanoids, motion generation, and RL research — xbpeng4 · 2026-10-24
• MIT's blind assembly robot hits 73% peg-insertion success with zero-shot sim-to-real — chris_j_paxton · 2026-10-24
• "RL doesn't work until it does": researchers showcase RL for high-reliability robot manipulation — chris_j_paxton · 2026-10-24
• mujoco_warp_pbr: batched ray-traced PBR renderer for MuJoCo in NVIDIA Warp — mishig25 · 2026-10-24
• Claude Code taught a Roborock to escape from under the stairs, 10/10 success — fillyourcoffee · 2026-10-24
• NVIDIA Expands Isaac Robotics Platform at GTC Berlin; enact Raises $30M Pre-Seed — lukas_m_ziegler · 2026-10-24(2 related)
• Robotiq launches 2FC adaptive gripper with embedded tactile intelligence, ships Q1 2027 — lukas_m_ziegler · 2026-10-24
• Reliable Robotics raises $115M at unicorn valuation for autonomous Cessna flights — lukas_m_ziegler · 2026-10-24
• Eka Robotics raises $150M at $1.45B valuation; vision-force-action picks 1,500 objects/hour — lukas_m_ziegler · 2026-10-24
• Robotics Weekly: NVIDIA and Others Launch New Products; Humanoid Robot Piloted at Audi Plant — lukas_m_ziegler · 2026-10-24(2 related)