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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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• Figure's Index creator network processes 30 min of video per second; $15M paid to data creators — adcock_brett · 2026-09-08
• Sim2real nails it first try: a new film production pipeline via robot simulation — alexcovo_eth · 2026-09-08
• Robotics startup Action Intelligence unveils Continuo, debuts at ECCV Sept 10-12 — thetripathi58 · 2026-09-07
• Embodied AI shifts from leaderboards to deployment: Annu Intelligence cuts robot rollout costs by 80% — 智东西 · 2026-09-07
• Unitree's world model powers first fully autonomous humanoid robot combat — Distinct-Question-16 · 2026-09-07(2 related)
• World Labs unveils Atlas world model: native text/image/video/3D, 1-min 1440p camera-controlled video — thione · 2026-09-07
• Waymo officially expands to Berkeley as physical AI startup wave builds in the Bay Area — jfiance · 2026-09-07
• AI agent wires cables, remodels PCB and hits the right pads with zero human precision — yacineMTB · 2026-09-07
• If a Tesla Cybercab fleet were profitable, Tesla wouldn't sell you one — jijojv · 2026-09-07
• Real-Robot Live Action Series Episode 3: Microduck's Oscar Performance — huggingface · 2026-09-07
• Autonomous launches $149 Harness, a desk device to orchestrate every coding agent — dee_hw · 2026-09-07
• DeepMind's EXIMO shows the harness-eating loop: VLM scaffold distilled into VLA weights for RL — m_wulfmeier · 2026-09-07
• Maker MacGyvers a fix when no 1.25mm battery connectors exist in the country — Saul_Loveman · 2026-09-07
• Separate exploration critic lets quadrupeds learn to push ungraspable objects (Pisa/ETH/NVIDIA) — stepjamUK · 2026-09-07
• Huawei Mate XT 2 ships with Kirin 9050 Pro, chip-OS-form-factor integration steals the show — CyberRobooo · 2026-09-07
• Xiaomi launches 18Fold with in-house 3nm XRING O3 chip scoring 5.61M on AnTuTu — 智东西 · 2026-09-07
• Cybercab vs Waymo spoof revives the classic 'I'm a Mac' ad format — bennash · 2026-09-07
• 9 steps to generate 3D-printable parts with llama.cpp, FreeCAD MCP and a local model — DevelopmentBorn3978 · 2026-09-07
• Huawei Unveils Kirin 9050 Pro with LogicFolding After Six Years — pstAsiatech · 2026-09-07(8 related)
• Alibaba's Qwen-Drive 1.0 unifies perception, traffic Q&A and planning in one driving model — The Decoder · 2026-09-07
• RTX 5090 owner seeks controllable segmented workflows for Wan2.2 local video generation — Legionhome81 · 2026-09-07
• Cyborg cockroaches with cameras and drug injectors built for disaster rescue — ChuckDBrooks · 2026-09-07
• Tesla Optimus 3 and Figure 4 humanoids to enter initial production by year-end, says analyst — davidpattersonx · 2026-09-07
• Robotics surges in YC batches but VCs still value hardware startups like software, warns investor — arian_ghashghai · 2026-09-07
• RealSense launches Perception Studio and D585 Pro camera covering 6cm-to-6m for robots — lukas_m_ziegler · 2026-09-07
• Eight months of GEN-1.5 pretraining sparks essay on scaling as universal methodology — CatAstro_Piyush · 2026-09-07
• Samsung to Unveil Self-Developed Humanoid Robot at CES 2027 — CyberRobooo · 2026-09-07(2 related)
• Figure commits $3.5B in compute via Nscale as humanoid robot value chain map reveals bottlenecks — demian_ai · 2026-09-07
• Physical AI Day in Stockholm demos factory AI on real hardware — SimonOlsn · 2026-09-07
• Autowash Robotics launches commercial robotic car wash: 3D-scanned, 4-minute, 76L per wash — lukas_m_ziegler · 2026-09-07
• Robotico Live launches: direct talks with humanoid robotics founders and engineers — xmercury_one · 2026-09-07
• Engineer's 3-layer MLP classifies automotive radar targets, Macro F1 hits 0.764 — bruno_pinto90 · 2026-09-07
• Developer builds visual SLAM + MPC drone control in one day with OpenAI's Astra — bookwormengr · 2026-09-07
• At least 5 humanoid robot factories being built near San Francisco, as GPT-6 designs one end to end — Scobleizer · 2026-09-07
• Vine robot grows around corners: dual-vine design steers 90° for surgery — Scobleizer · 2026-09-07
• Robot Sensor Data Loss Traced to IP Fragment Reassembly Failure — this_is_surabhi · 2026-09-07(4 related)
• UMI handwriting traced by DK1 in sim: using writing as a qualitative accuracy check — DominiqueCAPaul · 2026-09-07
• 3D-Printed Electronic Skin Gives Robotic Hand a Sense of Touch — zainhas · 2026-09-07(2 related)
• Photo-to-3D in practice: gaming, film, embodied AI and XR use cases with WorldGen — CodeByPoonam · 2026-09-07
• Robotics and AI Institute Shows Robots Jumping, Flipping and Recovering Balance Instantly — Olivier__OG · 2026-09-07
• KinetixAI's humanoid KAI looks human: 1.73m, 70kg, 115 DoF, tactile skin — CyberRobooo · 2026-09-07
• Xiaomi's CyberOne robot hits IFA as European consumer tech brands go missing — alexmacgregor__ · 2026-09-07
• High-speed inference chips could turn frontier models into real-time robot policies — eigenron · 2026-09-07(2 related)
• Astra robot-control demos pile up; speculation OpenAI is building its own Gemini Robotics rival — CyberRobooo · 2026-09-07
• GPT-6 "Astra" shows zero-shot robot arm sorting; OpenAI robotics rumors swirl — CyberRobooo · 2026-09-07
• HiSfM: scaffold-anchored hierarchical SfM tames repeated-structure ambiguity and cuts runtime — zhenjun_zhao · 2026-09-07
• Engineer uses GPT-6 to script Altium + openEMS simulations that auto-optimize GND voids on high-speed PCBs — BLUECOW009 · 2026-09-07
• HiDream launches embodied world model HiDream-O1-Embodied, tops RoboColiseum robustness board at 0.692 — 机器之心 · 2026-09-07
• Bimo Robotics: modular wheel-legged bots snap together in 3s, shipped ~8.5M direct-drive joint modules in 2025 — 量子位 · 2026-09-07
• 48 hours directing a personal agent via Meta glasses: the pieces exist, nobody combined them — kleffew94 · 2026-09-07