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Robotics · RESEARCHPeking University Team Proposes Open-HumanWAM to Train Robot Foundation Models on Pure Human Video Data
On November 5, researchers from Peking University, the National University of Singapore, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of California San Diego, and NVIDIA introduced Open-HumanWAM, a framework that transfers manipulation experience from large-scale human videos to robot tasks through a standardized action representation and pre-training recipe.
Robotics · RESEARCHAgents Rapidly Top RoboDojo Leaderboard Over 33 Days as Benchmark Enters Adjustment Phase
Robot-use agents have sequentially overtaken world and vision-language action models on the RoboDojo leaderboard over a 33-day period, prompting the creators of the prominent embodied AI benchmark to announce structural adjustments to maintain evaluation fairness.
Robotics · INDUSTRYPrimeBot Rolls Out 5,000 More Personal Robots in 14 Days, Surpassing 10,000-Unit Milestone
PrimeBot, under Shangwei New Material, has surpassed a combined 10,000 units rolled off the production line for its Q1 and T1 personal robots, with the 10,000th unit delivered to Wu Xiaobo. The leap from 5,000 to 10,000 units took just 14 days, highlighting an accelerating production ramp-up at its Kunshan assembly plant operated by Lens Technology.
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