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KEMO: Equipping VLA with a 'Memory Plugin' Boosts Long-Horizon Task Performance by 23.6%
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Interview with Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Yang Lixin: Why Robots Need a '3D Timeline'
Exclusive Visit to a Halted Robot Data Collection Site: Is Embodied AI Recalculating the Data Equation?
4.5 Billion RMB in Funding, One Hand, and an Ice Cream Shop
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Exclusive Interview with Zhou Shunbo: We Can Build a Robot People Love, Even Without AGI
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Lu Cuwu, Zhejiang University teams propose Track4Action: Distilling the '3D World After Action' into VLA
Three Major Embodied AI Works from China, US, and Korea: Connecting the Present and Future of Robot Agents
Yann LeCun Praises INTACT: ZJU’s Sun Junhan and Tsinghua’s Zhao Hao Eliminate the 'Search Tax' from JEPA World Models
First! 30 Researchers from Peking University, NTU, and Others Collaborate to Clarify the Embodied Data Pyramid
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Open-Sourcing Three Major Models: Tencent Robotics Is 'Overtaking'
Chatting with Wang Xiaofeng on Gigaworld-1: When World Models Become the Physical Referees for Embodied AI
Beyond Prediction: Xiaomi Turns World Models into Data Engines
LimX Dynamics, Having Raised $400 Million in Half a Year, Accelerates IPO Timeline
Moving Codex and CC into Robot Training? Zhu Yuke and Jim Fan’s Latest Work on Embodied Continuous Learning Systems
The First Embodied AI Stocks in the US and China: What Routes Have Unitree and Agility Taken?
Behind the Unitree Controversy, NVIDIA's New Computing Power Business
Nvidia Uses SimFoundry to Bridge the Last Mile of Robot Real2Sim
KEMO: Equipping VLA with a 'Memory Plugin' Boosts Long-Horizon Task Performance by 23.6%
Xiaoyu ZhiZao's Qiao Zhongliang First Proposes 'Embodied Dividend', Three Technologies Launched Alongside First Welding Robot
Interview with Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Yang Lixin: Why Robots Need a '3D Timeline'
Exclusive Visit to a Halted Robot Data Collection Site: Is Embodied AI Recalculating the Data Equation?
4.5 Billion RMB in Funding, One Hand, and an Ice Cream Shop
Why Did Zhiyuan Suddenly Become the 'Medal Harvesting Machine' of the Robot Games?
Exclusive Interview with Zhou Shunbo: We Can Build a Robot People Love, Even Without AGI
Beyond the Model: Ego2Robot Brings Data Processing Pipelines Back to the Spotlight
Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Lu Cuwu, Zhejiang University teams propose Track4Action: Distilling the '3D World After Action' into VLA
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Focus on Smart Vehicles, Embodied AI, and Low-Altitude Economy | 2026 Aggregated Intelligence Industry Development Conference to be Held in Optics Valley
Exclusive Visit to a Halted Robot Data Collection Site: Is Embodied AI Recalculating the Data Equation?
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Interview with Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Yang Lixin: Why Robots Need a '3D Timeline'
Shanghai Jiao Tong University assistant researcher Yang Lixin discusses how LaMP, ChronoFlow-Policy, and Track4Action integrate 3D point flow to give robots spatial awareness, temporal memory, and understanding of environmental changes.
Focus on Smart Vehicles, Embodied AI, and Low-Altitude Economy | 2026 Aggregated Intelligence Industry Development Conference to be Held in Optics Valley
The 2026 Aggregated Intelligence Industry Development Conference will take place in Optics Valley on September 8-9, focusing on the synergy of smart vehicles, embodied AI, and low-altitude economy.
Exclusive Visit to a Halted Robot Data Collection Site: Is Embodied AI Recalculating the Data Equation?
A Beijing humanoid robot data training center has ceased operations, highlighting that while embodied AI still lacks data, the industry needs high-quality, large-scale, diverse data infrastructure rather than just more robots.
4.5 Billion RMB in Funding, One Hand, and an Ice Cream Shop
Sharpa, backed by 4.5 billion RMB in funding, deploys its North robot at a DQ store. Founder Li Yifan argues that true embodied AI requires completing full workflows, not just performing isolated dexterous tasks.
Becoming a Top-Three National Player in Months, Lingxi Zhiyong Brings ROSS Harness to the Industrial Arena
Lingxi Zhiyong's robot achieved 160 points and ranked among the top three at the World Humanoid Robot Games. The company attributes this success to its self-developed ROSS Harness Agent, which bridges AI models and hardware execution.
Xinghai Tu's Zhao Xing: The Next Scaling of Robots Will Not Only Occur in Pre-training
At the 2026 WRC Forum, Xinghai Tu Chief Scientist Zhao Xing argues that Embodied AI's next scaling depends not just on pre-training data and models, but on continuous learning from real-world operations through post-training and true-machine reinforcement learning.
Why Did Zhiyuan Suddenly Become the 'Medal Harvesting Machine' of the Robot Games?
At the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, Zhiyuan Robotics won 18 gold, 16 silver, and 12 bronze medals, ranking first in both gold and total medal counts. This success highlights its dual strengths in embodied AI motion control and commercial deployment capabilities.
Exclusive Interview with Zhou Shunbo: We Can Build a Robot People Love, Even Without AGI
Zhou Shunbo, founder of Euler Universe, discusses his journey from Huawei to creating a wheeled home robot. He argues that data is the first principle of embodied AI and believes that high-value, non-AGI-dependent robots can succeed in family scenarios.
Behind ACE-Data-0: A Conversation with Daxiao Robotics on the Next Step for Embodied Data
Daxiao Robotics and NUS S-Lab released ACE-Data-0, an L5 multimodal embodied dataset. We discuss how high-density, physically grounded data is shifting the industry bottleneck from model architecture to physical supervision.
Beyond the Model: Ego2Robot Brings Data Processing Pipelines Back to the Spotlight
Ego2Robot demonstrates that scalable robot data synthesis from egocentric human video relies less on model architecture and more on rigorous data governance, including action alignment, visual alignment, and multi-level quality filtering.