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AGIBOT WORLD Release 4 pairs robot actions with decision-making annotations, covering changing conditions, task memory and multi-step planning.
Flora labels actions and scores robot performance from video. NVIDIA reports 200,000 hours processed daily, with model weights available for research under noncommercial terms.
Menlo Research releases a Python SDK for Asimov 1 and announces plans to open its controller-arbitration layer, extending the humanoid’s developer tools.
RoboParty’s RP1 debuted with balance-recovery demonstrations at IROS. The developer-focused humanoid builds on ROBOTO ORIGIN, with broader hardware and software releases planned for Q4.
The Asimov 1 release exposes locomotion rewards, actuator settings and simulation training code, giving developers tools to adapt the walking controller for the open-source humanoid.
Hot on the heels of Unitree’s UnifoLM release, AGIBOT has open-sourced GE-Act 2.0, a native World-Action Model pretrained from scratch across 30,000 hours of manipulation data to eliminate the "validity gap."
Unitree’s UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 combines visual understanding and whole-body control for humanoid tasks. Reasoning-model weights are available, with the full action model still to come.
Menlo Research and the Asimov team are shipping the first batch of their open-source Asimov 1 DIY humanoid kit, locking in a final delivered price of $20,000.
A new collaboration brings NVIDIA Isaac GR00T 1.7, Isaac Teleop, and the upcoming Cosmos 3 world model directly into Hugging Face’s LeRobot ecosystem.
BitRobot, Hugging Face, and Unitree have teamed up to release Humanoids-in-the-Wild 500 (HIW-500), a massive 500-hour teleoperation dataset collected across real homes in Southeast Asia using Unitree G1 hardware.
The LeRobot team has released a low-cost, full-stack bipedal platform designed to close the sim-to-real gap for researchers and builders without breaking the bank.
Following the launch of the "Here Be Dragons" kit, Menlo Research has released the full open-source repository for the Asimov v1 humanoid, including mechanical designs, electrical wiring, and a MuJoCo simulation model.
