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Zongqing Lu’s Team at BeingBeyond Introduces Being-M0.7 for Humanoid Whole-Body Mobile Manipulation
Being-M0.7 learns joint visual and motion priors from over 10,000 hours of human egocentric video and motion data, then adapts them to robot control. It achieved a 71.1% success rate on the SIMPLE simulation benchmark and matched the strongest baseline in real-world Unitree G1 tests.
ULTRA: Toward Autonomous Whole-Body Movement and Manipulation
At IROS 2026, Xialin He and Sirui Xu from UIUC presented ULTRA, a unified multimodal control framework that enables humanoid robots to learn whole-body loco-manipulation through physical simulation and reinforcement learning.
Tsinghua's Li Yi Team Releases PASSAGE for Humanoid Robots to Navigate Cluttered Environments
A joint team led by Tsinghua University released the PASSAGE paper on September 16, enabling humanoid robots to autonomously plan and execute traversal actions in cluttered spaces using 100 hours of scene-aligned motion data. Real-robot tests showed a 90% zero-contact success rate across 50 trials, with simulation results confirming that navigation performance scales with training data volume.
Sharpa Reveals RMB 4.5 Billion in Funding as North Robot Debuts in Real DQ Store
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.
Newcomer Lingxi Zhiyong Ranks Top Three in World Humanoid Robot Games with ROSS Harness
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.
Unitree's New Brain Debuts, Moving Whole-Body Intelligence from Concept to Real Robots
On July 20, Unitree Technology officially released UnifoLM-OminiA-0.3, an embodied large model for home care tasks, natively integrated into the G1 robot. This marks a substantive step toward real-world deployment in civilian service.
LimX Dynamics, Which Raised USD 400 Million in Six Months, Accelerates Plans for Public Listing
Embodied AI unicorn LimX Dynamics announces a nearly $200 million Pre-IPO round, bringing its half-year total to $400 million and pushing its IPO process forward.
The First Embodied AI IPOs in China and America: Unitree and Agility's Divergent Paths
Agility Robotics and Unitree Technology represent two diverging paths for embodied AI commercialization. Agility focuses on specialized, vertical integration in logistics and manufacturing, while Unitree pursues a broad, horizontal hardware platform strategy to lower costs and expand ecosystems.
Galbot Unveils AstraBrain-WBC 0.5, a Breakthrough in Humanoid Robot 'Cerebellum' Control
Galbot launches AstraBrain-WBC 0.5, the world's first general-purpose cerebellum foundation model for humanoid robots. With 80.4 million parameters, it becomes the first in its field to reach the GPT-1 scale, addressing the trade-off between agility and generalization in motion control.
AgiBot's 6-Day Factory Deployment Signals Inflection Point for Embodied AI
AgiBot's Genie G2 robots completed over 11,000 tablet quality inspections with a 99.985% success rate in a transparent 6-day factory trial, marking the industry's shift from experimental 'development phase' to scalable 'deployment phase'.
Nvidia's Robot Play: Using Unitree to Build a Physical AI 'CUDA'
While Unitree faces regulatory scrutiny, NVIDIA is leveraging its Isaac GR00T reference design to build a 'CUDA-like' ecosystem for embodied AI, turning robot training into a sustainable compute business.
Embodied AI’s New Bottleneck: The Rise of a Global Data Production Chain
As Embodied AI companies face a critical data shortage, a new supply chain is emerging. This article explores how human demonstration data, particularly Ego Data from low-cost labor hubs like India, is becoming the key asset in training general-purpose humanoid robots.