A new full-stack framework from HKUST and Shanghai AI Lab allows humanoid robots to acquire complex athletic skills like basketball and reactive fighting directly from human videos—no manual reward engineering required.
NVIDIA GEAR Lab has unveiled DreamZero, a 14-billion parameter World Action Model (WAM) that uses video diffusion to grant robots physical "imagination," enabling zero-shot task completion and rapid adaptation across different robotic embodiments.
Facing a talent shortage estimated at one million workers, top Chinese universities are breaking down academic silos to create dedicated degree programs for humanoid robotics.
New research from NVIDIA and UC Berkeley demonstrates a vision-only policy that outperforms human teleoperation, cementing the Unitree G1 as the standard for sim-to-real research.