Robotics Research Publications

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Research PublicationNVIDIA

NVIDIA-led team introduces Robota-Embed for action-aware robot experience retrieval

AI Compute

· 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.
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Company NVIDIA
Event type Research Publication
Segment AI Compute
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Research PublicationNeura Robotics

NEURA Robotics introduces multimodal Neuron AI foundation model

Humanoid

· research publication · Neura Robotics · 4NE1 · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • Neuron AI aligns multisensory observations and memory in a shared stream that generates physical actions.
  • Training combines real robot data, simulation-amplified data and sensor-suit human demonstrations across five NEURA embodiments.
  • An eleven-minute 4NE1 laundry demonstration is planned for GTC Berlin on 20–22 October; the launch does not establish that future demonstration as completed.
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Product 4NE1
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationSouthwest Research Institute

SwRI introduces Hierax neuromorphic counter-drone research system

Industrial

· 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.
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Event type Research Publication
Segment Industrial
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Research PublicationGoogle DeepMind

Google DeepMind broadly releases Gemini 4 Argon

Foundation Models

· 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.
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Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
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Research PublicationNature Will

Nature Will introduces Natura-1 dexterous physical foundation model

Foundation Models

· 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.
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Company Nature Will
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
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Research PublicationDexForce

DexForce coauthors UNITAS 3D-native world action model

Humanoid

· research publication · DexForce · Humanoid

Evidence notes
  • The paper reports 99.8% LIBERO, 89.1% LIBERO-Plus and 92.94% / 93.04% RoboTwin Clean / Randomized success.
  • Its real-robot Table 2 reports 18/20 book-organizing and 16/20 ball-packing trials, averaging 85% over these two tasks.
  • The public project includes interactive scene predictions; checkpoints, inference and training code remain planned releases.
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Company DexForce
Event type Research Publication
Segment Humanoid
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Research PublicationAmap

Amap and CASIA publish DreamTrue robot world-model research

Perception

· research publication · Amap · Perception

Evidence notes
  • The authors report first place in the world-model track of AgiBot World Challenge 2026.
  • Human-assessed interaction defects fell from 48.12% without reinforcement-learning post-training to 6.25% with the full model.
  • The evaluation measures predicted video interactions rather than a physical robot deployment.
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Company Amap
Event type Research Publication
Segment Perception
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Research PublicationOdyssey

Odyssey releases Odyssey-3 foundation world model research preview

Foundation Models

· research publication · Odyssey · Foundation Models

Evidence notes
  • Odyssey reports Pro scores of 66.1 on Physics-IQ Verified video-to-video and 54.7 on image-to-video using prompt enhancement and best-of-eight selection.
  • The company reports first place in three of four WorldMark categories in its own evaluations.
  • Robot demonstrations include recovery from missed grasps and dropped objects; physical-system adaptation uses learned action decoders or policies.
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Company Odyssey
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
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Research PublicationWuji Tech

Industrial Next study evaluates WUJI HAND 2 conveyor pick-and-sort

End Effectors

· research publication · Wuji Tech · WUJI HAND 2 · End Effectors

Evidence notes
  • Wuji Hand 2 performs pick-and-place color sorting from a moving conveyor using the right Flexiv Rizon 4S arm; the static left arm supplies another camera view.
  • The 500M flow-matching policy succeeds in 26 of 50 real-only trials and 43 of 50 trials after co-training with 100 real and approximately 1,500 grounded simulated trajectories.
  • Researchers teleoperate Hand 2 fingers with a Manus glove and map Vive-tracked wrist motion to the arm during real demonstration collection.
  • Two Flexiv Rizon 4S arms carry Wuji Hand 2; the right arm picks and color-sorts conveyor objects while the static left arm supplies another camera view.
  • The 500M flow-matching policy succeeds in 26 of 50 real-only trials and 43 of 50 trials after fully grounded co-training.
  • Training combines 100 real teleoperation demonstrations with approximately 1,500 simulated trajectories; tests include changed lighting, belt speed and objects.
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Company Wuji Tech
Product WUJI HAND 2
Event type Research Publication
Segment End Effectors
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Research PublicationRunway

Runway introduces Praxis-1 world action model for real robots

Foundation Models

· research publication · Runway · Praxis-1 · Foundation Models

Evidence notes
  • Noble Machines, Standard Bots and Ultra are testing the model on their hardware, including the Standard Bots RO1 arm.
  • The model learns robot actions from large-scale video pretraining combined with robot interaction data.
  • Public weights are planned in the coming months, following the pre-launch partner programme.
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Company Runway
Product Praxis-1
Event type Research Publication
Segment Foundation Models
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Research PublicationSeeing Machines

Seeing Machines publishes Jetson Thor human-mesh recovery benchmarks

Automotive

· research publication · Seeing Machines · Human Mesh Recovery · Automotive

Evidence notes
  • 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 HMR-Lite.
  • Both configurations reconstruct body pose, shape and camera-frame placement from a single RGB or RGB-D view.
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Event type Research Publication
Segment Automotive
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