Must-read papers of the week: HALO humanoid motion, GR00T 2, VLA policies, agent tooling
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-11-11
The Turing Post curates this week's must-read papers, heavy on embodied AI and agents: Apple's HALO (synthesizing vision-language-motion data across a thousand procedurally generated homes, 91% success on 169 zero-shot real-world trials), agentic manipulation policies, La-JEPA compact robot policies, GR00T 2, VFlash visual planning, Open-HumanWAM, NEO-VLA, RoboColosseum, plus agent-side work like ToolSpace (tool-centric environment synthesis), LEANGUARD verified guardrails, Scientist World and FrontierPhysics for AI-scientists evaluation, and DreamX on video diffusion as a latent action learner.
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