Embodied AI Breakthrough: SONIC System for Robot Motion Tracking Published in Science Robotics
zhengyiluo · x · 2026-08-13
The embodied AI research project SONIC has been published in Science Robotics. It formulates super-scaling motion tracking as the foundational task for achieving more natural and robust whole-body control in robots.
The learned tracker and latent space support the training of foundation models like VLA/WAM. The authors also announced that new model checkpoints will be released today.
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