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Robotics · RESEARCHDreamFree Distills Future Representations for Imagination-Free Robot Control
KAIST researchers introduce DreamFree, a world-action model that distills predictive capabilities from a video diffusion model into a visual encoder. This enables robots to output actions from a single current frame, bypassing the computationally expensive step of generating future video sequences during deployment.
Robotics · INDUSTRYAnt Group’s LingBot Open-Source Robot Brain Surpasses 2.2 Million Downloads at Wuzhen Summit
At the 2026 World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Ant Group’s embodied AI subsidiary LingBot showcased its fully open-source robot foundation models and a smart pharmacy deployment developed with Guoda Pharmacy.
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.
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