I am planting acorns one at a time with policy gradient.

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You got to take a look at the cut where the arm flew off together with the ball :P A perfect example of how massive closed-loop training can do to physical systems.
Replying to @nolan_fey
2/9 To train it, we reset the simulator to a recorded hardware state, apply the same recorded commands, and learn command corrections so the simulated rollout matches the recorded hardware trajectory. We previously used UAN on a quadruped's arm (uan.csail.mit.edu). But motion with contact was tricky.
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such insight, delivered in earnest.
Hi, I'm Felix. I'm an eng lead working on Claude. I love watching people take flight and do things they never thought possible. We often describe that as "being more ambitious" when using AI, which is tricky advice to follow. I wrote a tutorial: felixrieseberg.com/how-to-be…
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Introducing LPM 1.0 — a video-based character performance model that speaks, sings, listens, reacts, and emotes in real time. - Generating full-duplex conversation, identity-consistent infinite-length generation, and nuanced human-like performance. - Building across a co-designed data pipeline, Base model, Online model, and streaming inference optimization. - Key advantages over other video generation models: performance quality, emotional conversation, precise lip-sync, identity preservation, and lifelike naturalness. Turning an image into a performance video, LPM 1.0 serves as a visual engine for conversational agents, live streaming characters, and game NPCs. Page: large-performance-model.gith… Arxiv: huggingface.co/papers/2604.0…
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This is one of those iconic designs that will go down in history, that is destined to be remembered.
Today, we present a step-change in robotic AI @sundayrobotics. Introducing ACT-1: A frontier robot foundation model trained on zero robot data. - Ultra long-horizon tasks - Zero-shot generalization - Advanced dexterity 🧵->
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for the love of robots ❤️
Today, we present a step-change in robotic AI @sundayrobotics. Introducing ACT-1: A frontier robot foundation model trained on zero robot data. - Ultra long-horizon tasks - Zero-shot generalization - Advanced dexterity 🧵->
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Do you know who this is person was? You can see the Green Building and MIT in the background.
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Ge Yang retweeted
Spent just over an hour collecting UMI data in Stanford, sent it to @hgupt3 in CMU to run drone I've never seen before, and it just works 🤯 I was expecting to iterate on the data a few more times but embodiment guidance is so robust! umi-on-air.github.io/ to learn more!
Replying to @hgupt3
💾 Data from across the country. 🚁 No access to the drone. 🤖 Still works, zero-shot. UMI-on-Air makes large-scale data collection → real-world deployment possible.
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I'm super excited to announce mjlab today! mjlab = Isaac Lab's APIs + best-in-class MuJoCo physics + massively parallel GPU acceleration Built directly on MuJoCo Warp with the abstractions you love.
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Excited to share our latest work MaskedManipulator (proc. @SIGGRAPHAsia 2025)! With: Yifeng Jiang, @erwincoumans, @zhengyiluo, @GalChechik, and @xbpeng4
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Really cool to see the g1 do this! Was expecting some punching involved 😆
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Glad to play a role in driving VisionPro sells ☺️
Learning about active perception with @Haoyu_Xiong_ -- your robot needs a head, and to be able to control where it's looking, in order to perform complex tasks!
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Our crew at 4:30 AM – at Cambridge, MA
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It is so cool to see vuer.ai in action
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Many of today's data collection systems do not capture human perceptual behaviors. The observation mismatch—between what the human sees and what the robot learns from—hinders the learning of effective manipulation policies. To see what the robot sees, we developed a VR interface—Async Teleop, which introduces decoupled view rendering to reduce motion sickness 😵‍💫🥴🤢 — an issue that is insufficiently addressed in prior VR teleop systems. 3/7
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Check out this awesome demo!
We have been focusing on policy learning for robotics for a while. But can hardware be learned as well? Check out @yswhynot ‘s recent co-design work that learns what a soft gripper should be if we want to do better manipulation.
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Meet 𝐀𝐌𝐎 — our universal whole‑body controller that unleashes the 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥  kinematic workspace of humanoid robots to the physical world. AMO is a single policy trained with RL + Hybrid Mocap & Trajectory‑Opt. Accepted to #RSS2025. Try our open models & more 👉 amo-humanoid.github.io
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Take a look at these amazing humanoid results. Our dreams are coming true!
A behind-the-scenes video on how teleoperation is done. Whole-body manipulation with only a VisionPro.
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Congratulations! Incredible team and incredible traction. – at Somerville, MA
Excited to launch @DynaRobotics with a team of incredible researchers, engineers and company builders! At Dyna, our mission is to bring affordable general-purpose AI robots to real production environments.
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Look at how fast the training is 🔥 – at Cambridge, MA
Feature Splatting can now turn Objaverse assets into GS. With optimized kernel, 30K iters can be done in <1min on a single 4090 GPU.
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So many friends in this video! Gemini robotics looks incredible. Congratulations to the team 🥳
Meet Gemini Robotics: our latest AI models designed for a new generation of helpful robots. 🤖 Based on Gemini 2.0, they bring capabilities such as better reasoning, interactivity, dexterity and generalization into the physical world. 🧵 goo.gle/gemini2-robotics
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