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Robotics · RESEARCHQiyuan Embodied Research Center Unveils PrimeSim, Exploring Video Generation Models for Robot Simulation
On November 4, Qiyuan Embodied Research Center released PrimeSim, a world model simulator for robot manipulation policy training built on a pretrained video generation model. The team plans to open-source the model weights, inference code, and training code on November 6.
Robotics · RESEARCHTsinghua University Researchers Propose Utility-WAM for On-Demand Future Video Generation in Robot Action Planning
Predicting future video frames for action planning offers dynamic foresight for long-horizon tasks in embodied AI, but the mixed effects on action outputs yield negligible net gains in average success rates while incurring full computational costs.
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.
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