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How StageCraft Fixes VLA Failures by Adjusting the Environment, Not the Model
42HOW Robotics speaks with Prabin Rath, co-author of the IROS 2026 paper StageCraft, about how their method improves robot task success by adjusting environmental distractors rather than retraining models.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Assistant Researcher Yang Lixin on Why Robots Need a '3D Time Axis'
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.
KEMO Plugin Boosts VLA Long-Horizon Task Success by 23.6%
XDOF releases KEMO, an event-driven keyframe memory plugin for VLA models that improves long-horizon manipulation success rates by 23.6%.
X Square Robot’s WALL-OSS-0.5 Enables Zero-Shot VLA Deployment on Its Native Robot Embodiment
X Square Robot has open-sourced WALL-OSS-0.5, an Embodied AI foundation model that achieves strong zero-shot generalization on real robots directly after pre-training, challenging the industry norm that VLA models require post-training for deployment.
AgiBot Unveils GO-2 Model to Bridge the Semantic-Motor Gap in Robotics
AgiBot released its next-generation VLA foundation model, Genie Operator-2 (GO-2), introducing 'Action Chain of Thought' and an 'Asynchronous Dual-System' architecture to address the long-standing gap between perception and execution in robotics.
Qianxun Intelligence Raises RMB 3 Billion in 30 Days, Valuing Embodied AI Firm at Over RMB 10 Billion
In just 30 days, Embodied AI company Qianxun Intelligence secured another 1 billion RMB, bringing its total financing to 3 billion RMB. With a valuation exceeding 10 billion RMB less than two and a half years after its founding, the company is accelerating its growth through a unique data-driven VLA model approach.
π*0.6 Model Breaks Imitation Learning Bottleneck; EraStellar Raises Nearly RMB 1 Billion
RobotEra secures nearly 1 billion RMB in Series A+ funding for its VLA embodied AI model. Meanwhile, the Stanford-founded startup Sunday launches home robot Memo, and PI's π*0.6 model achieves a breakthrough in Visual-Language-Action (VLA) capabilities.
π*0.6 VLA Model May Enable Fully Autonomous Coffee Shops
Physical Intelligence (PI) released the π*0.6 model, using a novel 'Recap' training method to help Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models break through imitation learning bottlenecks.
ByteDance Unveils New VLA Model, Equipping Robots for Household Tasks
ByteDance Seed team releases GR-3 VLA model and ByteMini robot, featuring high generalization, long-horizon task handling, and flexible object manipulation.
Embodied AI Funding Surge: One Deal Daily in July Signals Key Industry Shifts
In the first half of July, domestic embodied AI sector saw 16 financing deals totaling over 3 billion yuan. Capital is shifting from large language models to embodied AI, driven by the rise of VLA models and the strategic push into physical world interaction.