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Robotics · ROBOTICSAgile Robots and NVIDIA Launch Agile ONE SN Reference Humanoid for Research Labs
On October 21, NVIDIA expanded its Isaac open robot development platform at GTC Berlin, while Munich-based Agile Robots and NVIDIA simultaneously introduced the Agile ONE SN, a ready-to-use reference humanoid robot targeting academic research.
Robotics · INDUSTRYTesla Confirms Optimus Production and Early Ramp in Q3 Earnings
In its third-quarter 2026 earnings report released on October 21, Tesla confirmed that the first production-quality Optimus humanoid robots have rolled off the line at its Fremont factory, marking the start of an early ramp for the California project.
Robotics · RESEARCHHAF-VLA Enables Hierarchical Generation of Coordinated Full-Body Actions in Humanoid Robots
A joint team from Peking University, Tsinghua University, and other institutions has proposed HAF-VLA, a hierarchical framework that enables humanoid robots to generate coordinated full-body actions by sequentially planning movements along the kinematic chain to avoid compensatory instability.
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