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Robotics · ARTICLEAgiBot Upgrades Genie Sim to Unify Training and Evaluation via Deformable-Object Simulation
Folding towels and tightening drawstrings are trivial for humans but challenging for robots. Fabrics and ropes continuously deform under grasping and compression, while contact and friction alter subsequent manipulation conditions. If simulations fail to replicate these physical dynamics, robots that succeed virtually may fail in the real world.
Robotics · ARTICLEGoogle DeepMind Unveils Genie 4, the First World Model in the Series to Generate Native Audio
Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a new real-time interactive world model that natively generates audio, prompting questions about how close such sounding, simulated environments are to being used for robot training.
Robotics · ROBOTICSD-Robotics Open-Sources Uranus World Model Simulation Platform, Achieving 0.98 Correlation in RoboTwin Closed-Loop Evaluation
On October 27, the D-Robotics large model team open-sourced the Uranus technical report alongside its inference code, SDK, and model weights, offering 100 early access slots to developers and researchers worldwide.
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