15 Robotics Research Accounts Worth Following on X, From VLA Datasets to Teleop
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-20
A curated list of 15 X accounts for robotics research, spanning key areas:
- Demos & coverage: chrisjpaxton (Agility AI, candid takes on humanoid demos), TheHumanoidHub (tracks humanoid launches, demos, funding)
- Datasets & open VLA: KarlPertsch (DROID, OpenVLA), AjayMandlekar (scaling few real demos to thousands of sim samples), peteflorence (Generalist, foundation model scaling)
- Simulation & teleop: kevinzakka (MuJoCo Menagerie, mjlab), xuxincheng (OpenTeleVision humanoid teleoperation)
- Policies & foundation models: chichengcc (Diffusion Policy, UMI), hausmank (RT-2 through Physical Intelligence), duyilun (video generation models as robot planners)
- Others: ankurhandos (NVIDIA dexterous hands), breadli428 (quadruped/humanoid locomotion), ericjang11 (deep writeups), 0xmeden (jobs & courses), IlirAliu (founder/investor view)
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