NVIDIA coauthors AW-0 agentic world action model - 2026-10-21 - Research Publication - Pretraining uses approximately 2000 hours of YAM robot data and 1000 hours of egocentric human manipulation. Physical evaluations use a YAM bimanual station and a Tianji–Sharpa setup with two 22-DoF hands. Released code… - source: arxiv.org
Siemens and NVIDIA unveil AI applications tested at Erlangen factory - 2026-10-19 - Research Publication - Cosmos generates inspection-training images from digital twins before physical PCB prototypes are available. AI agents propose production scenarios that planners validate against a factory digital twin before… - source: press.siemens.com
NVIDIA releases Flora models for robot-data annotation and rewards - 2026-10-15 - Research Publication - The suite includes a 27B-parameter captioner, temporal segmentation and reward models. NVIDIA reports throughput of 200,000 video-hours per day across 512 GB300 GPUs. The captioner is licensed for non-commercial research… - source: huggingface.co
NVIDIA researchers introduce DemoStream for automated robot demonstration generation - 2026-10-15 - Research Publication - Policies trained on 75 collected demonstrations achieved 67% success in the reported physical tasks. Simulation evaluates planning costs, action spaces and batch sizes across manipulation tasks. The project shares videos… - source: arxiv.org
NVIDIA-led team introduces Robota-Embed for action-aware robot experience retrieval - 2026-10-14 - Research Publication - The study combines 1,695,684 training anchors with 4,000 benchmark queries and an 8,000-entry gallery. Clip- and episode-level R@1 reach 47.33% and 81.77%; results are author-reported. The public technical report is… - source: arxiv.org
Archon and collaborators introduce PingpongDuo humanoid table-tennis doubles - 2026-10-14 - Research Publication - A physical clearance-and-recovery test covers 2.15 metres in2.4 seconds, with a peak speed of2.23m/s. Simulation comparison reports a 13.2% improvement in return success; the physical experiment measures alternating… - source: arxiv.org
AgiBot introduces WorldOracle benchmark for action-conditioned world models - 2026-10-13 - Research Publication - The 335-example evaluation spans AgiBot G2, YAM and human-hand embodiments with successful, failed and extended interactions. Seven world models are tested across rigid, deformable, fluid and articulated-object… - source: arxiv.org
Seeing Machines publishes Jetson Thor human-mesh recovery benchmarks - 2026-09-30 - Research Publication - HMR-Lite achieved 5.5 ms median RGB latency and 6.2 ms for RGB-D; person bounding-box detection time is excluded. The larger HMR model achieved 15.8 ms RGB latency with 386 million parameters, versus 146 million for… - source: globenewswire.com
Flexion presents a Niantic Spatial and NVIDIA sim-to-real pipeline for humanoids - 2026-07-20 - Research Publication - Niantic Spatial reconstructed the office as a metric digital twin from camera capture. NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab provided the simulation and training environment. The RGB navigation policy transferred zero-shot to a… - source: flexion.ai
Anchor Lab Dataset: Real-World Measurements for Sim-to-Real Calibration - 2026-06-05 - Research Publication - Releases a Hugging Face robotics dataset for grounding simulation calibration in real physical measurements. Supports zero-shot sim-to-real workflows by providing hardware measurement data for dynamics and calibration… - source: huggingface.co