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Robotics · RESEARCHTsinghua and UC Berkeley release uni-robot-agent framework for open-source robot control
A joint research team from Tsinghua University and UC Berkeley has released uni-robot-agent, a unified framework for Robot-Use Agents. The open-source model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next achieved a score of 31.39 on the RoboDojo benchmark by directly controlling a robot, surpassing the previously published score of 28.97 by GPT-6 Astra.
Robotics · ROBOTICSUBTECH Launches Thinker-Sim Platform for Embodied AI Simulation, Data Synthesis, and Evaluation
Unveiled on November 2, Thinker-Sim integrates real-to-sim-to-real scene digitization, large-scale data synthesis, and robot capability evaluation into a single system, with a single 8-GPU node synthesizing 390 hours of simulation data daily.
Robotics · RESEARCHShanghai Jiao Tong University and Partners Introduce UniFlowWAM, Elevating 3D Scene Flow to a Core Modality
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Chuangzhi Academy, and Qianzhi Intelligent introduce UniFlowWAM. Over the past six months, research on world-action models has increasingly trended toward extracting physical signals into abstract modalities, feeding them into encoders to train embodied AI models.
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