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Unitree Robotics has open-sourced UnifoLM-WLA-1.0, a 6-billion-parameter foundation model that combines an embodied reasoner, dynamic optical-flow world modeling, and an MMDiT action expert to drive whole-body manipulation.
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.
Legacy actuator manufacturer ROBOTIS has unveiled AI Sapiens, a fully open-source 1.3-meter humanoid powered by new Quasi-Direct Drive actuators, targeting the growing market for reproducible "Physical AI" research.
Zurich-based Mimic Robotics has released the code and research for its "pixel-to-action" architecture, aiming to shift the industry from static vision-language models to dynamic video-based foundations.
Following the launch of the "Here Be Dragons" DIY kit, Menlo Research has released a comprehensive guide detailing the mechanical, electronic, and simulation hurdles of building a 1.2-meter humanoid at home.
AGIBOT unveils a unified simulation infrastructure that uses LLM-driven spatial world models and massively parallel reinforcement learning to accelerate the path from digital training to physical deployment.
With a $6.5 million seed round and a $5,000 open-source arm, Anvil Robotics aims to provide the foundational hardware and software for the next wave of AI builders.
Menlo Research’s open-source project, Asimov, moves from GitHub repository to physical hardware with a bipedal kit designed for rapid iteration and "Processor-in-the-Loop" development.
