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2026-10-23 Research Publication NVIDIA AI Compute 2026-10-23 · research publication · NVIDIA AI Compute
Evidence notes The model builds on Gemma 4 E4B and supports configurable reasoning and a 64k context window. The Reachy Mini example runs on Jetson Orin Nano 8GB and uses Cosmos 3 Edge for vision. The release targets local voice, device and robotic interfaces. Date 2026-10-23
Event type Research Publication
Segment AI Compute
Added to Korthos 2026-10-24
2026-10-22 · research publication · Gamma Robotics Foundation Models
Evidence notes The suite contains 102 atomic and 132 compositional task definitions. Experiments compare twelve policies with a shared controller and two policies across five controllers. Physical G1 trials include refrigerator opening, shelf-to-table transfer and conveyor pick-and-place. Date 2026-10-22
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
Added to Korthos 2026-10-23
2026-10-21 Research Publication RLWRLD Foundation Models 2026-10-21 · research publication · RLWRLD Foundation Models
Evidence notes Action prediction uses future representations from one denoising step rather than iterative video generation. Physical Franka Research 3 experiments use a Robotiq 2F-85 gripper; OpenArm experiments test human–robot co-training. Released training and evaluation code accompanies 5B and 14B DROID checkpoints and a 5B RoboCasa checkpoint. Date 2026-10-21
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
Added to Korthos 2026-10-23
2026-10-21 Research Publication Ant Group Foundation Models 2026-10-21 · research publication · Ant Group Foundation Models
Evidence notes Against WAM without wrench input, square-peg insertion success rises from 25% to 70%, and adapter insertion from 40% to 95%. Admittance feedback reduces peg-insertion force-reference RMSE from 4.8 to 2.7 N and wiping RMSE from 2.0 to 1.3 N. The 450-trajectory dataset is collected with two seven-DoF Franka arms and a LinkTouch six-axis wrist sensor. Against WAM without wrench input, square-peg insertion success rises from25% to70%, and adapter insertion from40% to95%. Admittance feedback reduces peg-insertion force-reference RMSE from4.8 to2.7 N and wiping RMSE from2.0 to1.3 N. The450-trajectory dataset is collected with two seven-DoF Franka arms and a LinkTouch six-axis wrist sensor. Date 2026-10-21
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
Added to Korthos 2026-10-22
2026-10-21 Research Publication NVIDIA AI Compute 2026-10-21 · research publication · NVIDIA AI Compute
Evidence notes 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 includes training and deployment tools, and a pretrained checkpoint; the pretraining corpora are not distributed. Pretraining uses approximately2000 hours of YAM robot data and1000 hours of egocentric human manipulation. Physical evaluations use a YAM bimanual station and a Tianji–Sharpa setup with two22-DoF hands. Date 2026-10-21
Event type Research Publication
Segment AI Compute
Added to Korthos 2026-10-22
2026-10-21 Research Publication Midcentury Simulation 2026-10-21 · research publication · Midcentury Midcentury Matrix Simulation
Evidence notes Matched warm tests average0.46–0.47seconds per generated frame on one RTX5090using four denoising steps. Two1,000-frame warehouse sequences report mean LPIPS of0.046and0.052against Unreal Engine renders. The company reports excess temporal variation and has not completed a matched path-tracing or parallel-rollout benchmark. Date 2026-10-21
Event type Research Publication
Segment Simulation
Added to Korthos 2026-10-21
2026-10-20 Research Publication RLWRLD Foundation Models 2026-10-20 · research publication · RLWRLD Foundation Models
Evidence notes The initial VPM-Data release provides 10,000 simulation clips across tabletop manipulation and urban dynamics. VP-WorldBench evaluates forecasting across simulated and real settings; public implementation code accompanies the work. Point supervision improves the action-enabled model’s manipulation success in the authors’ simulated and DROID real-robot tests. Date 2026-10-20
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
Added to Korthos 2026-10-21
2026-10-20 Research Publication Unitree Humanoid 2026-10-20 · research publication · Unitree G1 Humanoid
Evidence notes A VLM-guided pipeline preserves meaningful human contact while retargeting demonstrations to the humanoid. A privileged teacher is distilled into an egocentric depth policy, with generative partner-state prediction for occlusion. Training code is planned for early November; the current repository provides project information and demonstration media. Date 2026-10-20
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
Added to Korthos 2026-10-21
2026-10-20 Research Publication Encord Data Infrastructure 2026-10-20 · research publication · Encord Data Infrastructure
Evidence notes EMG-1 contains 307 hours of field clip-time with wrist EMG and synchronized egocentric video, plus a separate 10.4-hour laboratory collection with optical motion capture. Wearable Devices supplied Mudra Pro technology for field capture and Mudra Ultimate for the laboratory collection. Encord reports about 25% lower fingertip tracking error from EMG-video fusion in its tests; dataset access is advertised through registration. Date 2026-10-20
Event type Research Publication
Segment Data Infrastructure
Added to Korthos 2026-10-20
2026-10-19 Research Publication Amazon Logistics 2026-10-19 · research publication · Amazon Logistics
Evidence notes Motions include ducking, sidestepping and torso twisting through cluttered spaces. Hindsight labeling creates collision-free supervision by placing obstacles outside recorded swept motion. Test-time steering improves targeted rewards by 34% on average in the reported evaluation while retaining high avoidance rates. Date 2026-10-19
Event type Research Publication
Segment Logistics
Added to Korthos 2026-10-23
2026-10-19 Research Publication Sharpa End Effectors 2026-10-19 · research publication · Sharpa End Effectors
Evidence notes The suites cover launching, Tower of Hanoi, interlocking assembly, cube manipulation and household tasks. EP-Easy and EP-Hard each contain 50 tasks; EP-20 provides a compact diagnostic subset. The released environment SDK supports MuJoCo, Isaac Lab and ManiSkill with declared observation/tool-access levels. EP-Easy and EP-Hard each contain50 tasks; EP-20 provides a compact diagnostic subset. Date 2026-10-19
Event type Research Publication
Segment End Effectors
Added to Korthos 2026-10-22
2026-10-19 · research publication · ACE Robotics (大晓机器人) Foundation Models
Evidence notes Supervised fine-tuning uses about one million spatial-grounding examples covering roughly 940,000 images and 2.7 million question-answer pairs. The company reports a 74.53 average across seven public benchmarks, compared with 73.68 for GPT-6 Astra, and higher scores on six of eight evaluations. Its company-built RobotGrounding evaluation scored 94.13 versus 91.10; these visual-grounding results do not measure general physical-task success. Date 2026-10-19
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
Added to Korthos 2026-10-20
2026-10-19 Research Publication Siemens AG Industrial 2026-10-19 · research publication · Siemens AG Industrial
Evidence notes 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 implementation. Siemens claims potential reductions of up to 85% in preparation engineering, 40% in time to market and 20% in planning costs. Date 2026-10-19
Event type Research Publication
Segment Industrial
Added to Korthos 2026-10-20
2026-10-19 · research publication · Roen Surgical Zamenix Surgical
Evidence notes The procedure lasted 75 minutes, with approximately 3mL blood loss and discharge after two days. The research involved Universitas Indonesia’s Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital and Seoul National University Hospital teams. Date 2026-10-19
Event type Research Publication
Segment Surgical
Added to Korthos 2026-10-19
2026-10-15 Research Publication NVIDIA AI Compute 2026-10-15 · research publication · NVIDIA AI Compute
Evidence notes 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 and development under NVIDIA’s OneWay Noncommercial terms. Date 2026-10-15
Event type Research Publication
Segment AI Compute
Added to Korthos 2026-10-22
2026-10-15 Research Publication Unitree Humanoid 2026-10-15 · research publication · Unitree G1 Humanoid
Evidence notes Reported real-robot task success is 90%, versus 18% for direct retargeting and 4% for a generalist controller. The robot repositions a basketball and box and demonstrates stowing, carrying and placing a box. The study is externally authored and does not establish fully autonomous execution. Date 2026-10-15
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
Added to Korthos 2026-10-17
2026-10-15 Research Publication NVIDIA AI Compute 2026-10-15 · research publication · NVIDIA AI Compute
Evidence notes 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, while its code release remains pending; Panda is not substituted with FR3. Date 2026-10-15
Event type Research Publication
Segment AI Compute
Added to Korthos 2026-10-17
2026-10-15 Research Publication Xspark AI Data Infrastructure 2026-10-15 · research publication · Xspark AI Data Infrastructure
Evidence notes Spatial contact maps and a frozen 3D geometry teacher supervise visual representations during pretraining. On matched visual data and compute, reported vision-only Ego Humanoid success increases from about 52.5% to71.7%. One checkpoint supports vision-only and tactile-conditioned inference; touch-supervision heads are removed at inference. Spatial contact maps and a frozen3D geometry teacher supervise visual representations during pretraining. On matched visual data and compute, reported vision-only Ego Humanoid success increases from about52.5% to71.7%. The official project marks code coming soon; downloadable datasets and model weights were not verified. Date 2026-10-15
Event type Research Publication
Segment Data Infrastructure
Added to Korthos 2026-10-16
2026-10-14 Research Publication microagi Data Infrastructure 2026-10-14 · research publication · microagi Data Infrastructure
Evidence notes Each model receives eight seconds of 720p video at ten frames per second, with five attempts per clip. GPT-6 Astra reached a 65.6% mean pass rate under the company’s LLM-judged protocol; the judge checks actions, objects, destinations and hand assignment. The evaluation set totals just under 27 minutes; human reviewers selected cases with one reasonable immediate next action. Date 2026-10-14
Event type Research Publication
Segment Data Infrastructure
Added to Korthos 2026-10-20
2026-10-14 · research publication · Archon Robotics Foundation Models
Evidence notes 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 strikes. The system coordinates team positioning with separate footwork and striking skills. A physical clearance-and-recovery test covers2.15metres in2.4seconds, with a peak speed of2.23m/s. The13.2% improvement in return success is from simulation, separate from the physical-rally result. Date 2026-10-14
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
Added to Korthos 2026-10-16
2026-10-14 · research publication · Daimon Robotics Sensors
Evidence notes Collection spans over 10,000 hours, one million episodes and more than 1,000 task types across over 50 sites. The public Daimon-Infinity portals provide a subset of the complete vision-tactile-language-action corpus. Robot replay and kinematic evaluation tools are released, while policy-training code is still planned. Date 2026-10-14
Event type Research Publication
Segment Sensors
Added to Korthos 2026-10-15
2026-10-14 Research Publication NVIDIA AI Compute 2026-10-14 · research publication · NVIDIA AI Compute
Evidence notes 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 available, while code, model and benchmark downloads remain marked coming soon. Date 2026-10-14
Event type Research Publication
Segment AI Compute
Added to Korthos 2026-10-15
2026-10-14 · research publication · Neura Robotics Humanoid
Evidence notes Training combines physical robot interactions, simulation-amplified data and sensor-suit human demonstrations across five robot embodiments. NEURA scheduled an 11-minute 4NE1 laundry demonstration for October 20–22 at NVIDIA GTC Berlin, covering sorting, washing-machine handling and transfer to a dryer. Date 2026-10-14
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
Added to Korthos 2026-10-14
2026-10-14 · research publication · Southwest Research Institute Industrial
Evidence notes Event-based sensing tracks pixel-level brightness changes, supporting fast-moving target detection with lower compute requirements than conventional optical systems. The kit uses a hardware-agnostic, modular open-systems design intended to support interoperability across U.S. defence platforms. Passive optical sensing emits no radio-frequency signal and supports reduced sensor size, weight and power. SwRI presented a demonstration at AUSA; flight-test success rates and a fielded procurement were not disclosed. Date 2026-10-14
Event type Research Publication
Segment Industrial
Added to Korthos 2026-10-14
2026-10-13 Research Publication Rhoda AI Foundation Models 2026-10-13 · research publication · Rhoda AI Foundation Models
Evidence notes Tests cover normal and shear force, vibration and temperature, spanning millinewtons to over 40 newtons. Contact vibrations are sampled at approximately 500 Hz. Results are company-reported; the post does not release code, model weights or a downloadable dataset. Date 2026-10-13
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
Added to Korthos 2026-10-17
2026-10-13 Research Publication AgiBot Humanoid 2026-10-13 · research publication · AgiBot G2 Humanoid
Evidence notes 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 interactions. Metrics assess physical-state correctness, spatial alignment, interaction-area fidelity and coherence across synchronized views. Date 2026-10-13
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
Added to Korthos 2026-10-16
2026-10-13 · research publication · Deep Robotics LYNX M20 Industrial
Evidence notes The corpus contains about 100,000 clips, 833.6 hours and 3,294.7 km of recorded movement. Synchronized recordings combine four fisheye cameras, dual lidars, IMU, odometry and robot states. Benchmark tasks cover trajectory prediction, bird’s-eye-view perception, future-scene prediction and multi-view reconstruction. Date 2026-10-13
Event type Research Publication
Segment Industrial
Added to Korthos 2026-10-16
2026-10-13 · research publication · Google DeepMind Foundation Models
Evidence notes Google reports an 87% score on its Embodied Reasoning benchmark for physical and spatial problems. In an internal test, Argon reconstructed a human cornhole video, generated simulation code and transferred a skill to an Apptronik Apollo humanoid that made seven consecutive shots. The robotics developer release includes examples for simulation reconstruction, robot control, physical understanding and research reproduction. Date 2026-10-13
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
Added to Korthos 2026-10-13
2026-10-13 Research Publication Nature Will Foundation Models 2026-10-13 · research publication · Nature Will Foundation Models
Evidence notes The model takes language and vision inputs and controls 20-degree-of-freedom hands in a 100-millisecond loop after robot-data post-training. Company tests use ROKAE AR5 arms with Wuji hands and report scores of 53.4 Base and 59.1 Agentic; gripper baselines run on a different ARX platform. Demonstrations include long-horizon tool use, calligraphy and manipulation of deformable materials under unfamiliar instructions. Date 2026-10-13
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
Added to Korthos 2026-10-13
2026-10-10 · research publication · X Square Robot Humanoid
Evidence notes The technical report defines 44 hierarchical tasks across 10 capability dimensions and reports 0.84 correlation between simulation and real-robot task-progress scores. The benchmark separates training and evaluation settings and varies appearance, task configuration and robot embodiment. ManaEnv manages simulation and scoring while separate Policy Space services run policy inference. Date 2026-10-10
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
Added to Korthos 2026-10-19
2026-10-09 · research publication · Tommoro Robotics Foundation Models
Evidence notes The company reports 95.20% success for GC-VLA and 99.55% with GCRF on the LIBERO simulation benchmark. Tommoro reports 400 consecutive logistics-picking successes using Rainbow Robotics RB-Y1, alongside demonstrations on UR5e and ROBOTIS AI Worker. The model is designed for multiple robot embodiments; manufacturing and logistics field validation remain part of the commercialization programme. Date 2026-10-09
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
Added to Korthos 2026-10-21