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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.
Robotics · ROBOTICSMeta and Fourier Develop Humanoid Robot Prototype Codenamed Max
According to The Information, Meta and Chinese robotics company Fourier have jointly developed a humanoid robot prototype codenamed Max, with development of a second-generation Max 2 underway since September 2026.
Robotics · INTERVIEWSCopper-Policy Replaces Pixel Prediction With Compact Latent Representations for Robot Control
The Copper-Policy model jointly learns compact latent world representations and action policies, bypassing the heavy computational cost of pixel-level video prediction. First author Zexin Feng from The University of Hong Kong explains how this asymmetric architecture achieves robust control without extensive embodied pre-training.
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