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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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• NTU Spinoff Ropedia Raises $30M and Unveils HOMIE Gen 2 — liuziwei7 · 2026-09-11(2 related)
• M.2-Oculink eGPU Link Silently Downgrades to PCIe Gen1 — Here's How to Check — El_90 · 2026-09-11
• Replit Agent in a robot builds and publishes websites autonomously via MCP — amasad · 2026-09-11
• TARS Robotics unveils embodied foundation model AWE: 15+ tasks, one model, zero retraining — heyshrutimishra · 2026-09-11
• Qualcomm's next Hexagon NPU to run 30B MoE models on-device — lee_stott · 2026-09-11(2 related)
• Working with an ESP32 device using Copilot CLI and Astra — DanWahlin · 2026-09-11
• VATIX: open-source driving world model trained on 5,500 hours of real-world footage — abursuc · 2026-09-11
• Reachy Mini robot gains spotlight after joining NVIDIA's portfolio — RachelVT42 · 2026-09-11
• PhyFilter: physics-informed filter lets sim-trained robots traverse real terrain without extra data — 机器之心 · 2026-09-11
• UMO: unified in-context framework turns text2motion model into multi-task motion foundation — Michael_J_Black · 2026-09-11
• Why robotics folks stay quiet on AGI: dishes and laundry first, hype later — MannyKayy · 2026-09-11
• Maxinsights: The Data Supplier Behind Silicon Valley's Hottest Robots, With 2M+ Hours of Egocentric Data — 新智元 · 2026-09-11
• Inside China Opto-electronics Expo: The XR Supply Chain, From Waveguides to MicroLED — Scobleizer · 2026-09-11
• Tesla Cybercab Makes Japanese Debut in Global Tour — yunta_tsai · 2026-09-11(3 related)
• It's time to deploy robots even though the tech isn't finished: quadrupeds beat humanoids in factories — paigeinsf · 2026-09-11
• Why doesn't Apple copy Samsung's privacy display that blocks shoulder surfing? — tawnniee · 2026-09-11
• Amap unveils ABot-Earth 0.7, turning one satellite image into a 3D city in 10 minutes — 量子位 · 2026-09-11(2 related)
• China unveils roadmap targeting mass deployment of self-driving vehicles by 2030 — Polymarket · 2026-09-11
• Asimov 1 humanoid robot prepped for Arm event — freelerobot · 2026-09-11
• Apple A20 Pro Geekbench Score Surfaces in Public Comparison — aurareturn · 2026-09-11
• Survey proposes PAPAV: a unified framework for multimodal embodied agents — MikeShou1 · 2026-09-11
• JD's JoyInside expands to whole-home AI, partnering with nearly 200 brands — 京东JoyAI · 2026-09-11
• Developer traps a fruit fly inside a Rabbit R1 to visualize its brain's escape circuit — jesselyu · 2026-09-11
• A Simulated Fruit Fly Is Learning to Drive, Matthew Berman Shows How — Matthew Berman · 2026-09-11
• New joystick control mode demoed for Masked Mimic robot policy — carlosdponx · 2026-09-11
• OpenAI's Astra shows in-context learning for mobile robot manipulation from video alone — npew · 2026-09-11
• MSRA, UTS and Tsinghua unveil UniSteer: injecting human corrections into RL for flow-matching VLAs — jiqizhixin · 2026-09-11
• Actor Labs and Physical Intelligence to host 36-hour physical AI hackathon in Mountain View — Darpinian · 2026-09-11
• Household robot remote assistance raises a privacy question: who's watching the cameras? — VraserX · 2026-09-11
• NVIDIA Says All Scaled Robotaxi Projects Run on Its Full-Stack Tech — nvidia · 2026-09-11(2 related)
• Tesla Cybercab carefully passes cyclist on narrow hillside road in viral clip — EricETesla · 2026-09-11
• Tianji Robotics hits near-$1.4B valuation as force-controlled arms become embodied AI's key supply — 创业邦 · 2026-09-11
• FCC Supply-Chain Rules Could Shape How US Robots Are Built and Sold — Rewkang · 2026-09-11
• First Rabbit R1 units arrive; early user promises a rethink of human-machine interaction — SimonBalmain · 2026-09-11
• GPT-6 Astra Drives Robot Arm from a Single Human Demo via Physical In-Context Learning — zhaoran_wang · 2026-09-11(3 related)
• Rabbit pushes surprise OTA update fixing R1 battery drain and SIM connectivity — SimonBalmain · 2026-09-11
• NVIDIA's Masked Mimic Demo Goes Live on Miniverse — carlosdponx · 2026-09-11(2 related)
• Shanghai team open-sources running, jumping DIY humanoid robot with full hardware and RL training stack — tom_doerr · 2026-09-11
• mjbatch is now on PyPI: install with one pip command — kevin_zakka · 2026-09-11
• ego2wrist: Faking robot wrist-camera views from egocentric video, then testing if they work — chris_j_paxton · 2026-09-11
• Analog Devices to acquire edge-AI chipmaker Alif Semiconductor for $1.35B — arifj · 2026-09-11
• Using Monocular SLAM + Ego Video to Build Usable RL Environments for Embodied AI — chris_j_paxton · 2026-09-11
• Carmack: Jetson Thor's 128GB at 273GB/s is over-provisioned for real-time robotics — ID_AA_Carmack · 2026-09-11
• Dev Builds 95% Local AI Basketball Tracking Pipeline with GPT-6 Astra Assist — TheMoonMidas · 2026-09-11(4 related)
• Agent Astra given a credit card builds its own DJ controller — TheMoonMidas · 2026-09-11(2 related)
• Dev has AI agent design a tool from a photo, research materials, and 3D print it end-to-end — banteg · 2026-09-11
• Nori Robotics 3D-prints humanoids at $1,688 per robot, targeting 400/month — ycombinator · 2026-09-11
• Ex-NASA Engineer's Three-Drone Fleet Detects and Fights Wildfires — alex_verem · 2026-09-11(2 related)
• New headset teardown speculation: under-arm cameras and AVP-style eye tracking through optics — SadlyItsBradley · 2026-09-11
• Remote operation of construction machinery from 2,000 km away with under 30ms delay is already real in China — rohanpaul_ai · 2026-09-11