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AdaPT Bridges Sim-to-Real to Teach Humanoids the Tennis Styles of Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic
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AdaPT Bridges Sim-to-Real to Teach Humanoids the Tennis Styles of Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic

Researchers from Shanghai AI Lab, Dobot, SJTU, and Noitom introduce AdaPT, an adaptive planning and tracking framework that extracts stylized tennis rallying and serving from broadcast footage.

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Robots Outrun Usain Bolt: Inside the Record-Shattering Spree at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games

Robots Outrun Usain Bolt: Inside the Record-Shattering Spree at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games

XPENG Robotics Raises Over $900 Million at $6.3 Billion Valuation to Industrialize IRON Humanoid

XPENG Robotics Raises Over $900 Million at $6.3 Billion Valuation to Industrialize IRON Humanoid

Generalist AI Unveils GEN-1.5: One-Shot Robot Learning and the End of Heavy Fine-Tuning

Generalist AI Unveils GEN-1.5: One-Shot Robot Learning and the End of Heavy Fine-Tuning

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XPENG Robotics Raises Over $900 Million at $6.3 Billion Valuation to Industrialize IRON Humanoid

XPENG Robotics Raises Over $900 Million at $6.3 Billion Valuation to Industrialize IRON Humanoid

XPENG has closed a record-breaking $900 million financing round for its humanoid robotics division, backed by IDG Capital, Alibaba, and Tencent, ahead of late-2026 mass production.

Generalist AI Unveils GEN-1.5: One-Shot Robot Learning and the End of Heavy Fine-Tuning

Generalist AI Unveils GEN-1.5: One-Shot Robot Learning and the End of Heavy Fine-Tuning

Generalist AI claims a GPT-3 moment for robotics, demonstrating a foundation model that learns new physical tasks in seconds from a single prompt.

Not Ready to Scale: Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing on Why Humanoids Still Aren’t Working in Factories

Not Ready to Scale: Unitree CEO Wang Xingxing on Why Humanoids Still Aren’t Working in Factories

Days after Unitree’s blockbuster listing, founder Wang Xingxing used his WRC 2026 stage time to explain why the company has held back from large-scale factory deployment — and laid out the generalization bottleneck, the "lossy" nature of physical AI, and a self-evolving software loop aimed at both.

The Physical Bottleneck: Why Actuator Technology is the Next Frontier for Humanoid Robots

The Physical Bottleneck: Why Actuator Technology is the Next Frontier for Humanoid Robots

As artificial intelligence models leap forward, the physical capabilities of humanoid robots remain constrained by their hardware. Advanced integrated actuators and quasi-direct drive (QDD) systems are emerging as the crucial link between digital intelligence and real-world motion.

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