Last Week in Robotics (06.09-06.15)
π€ Traditional Robotics
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@tether led a $1.4B Series C in
@NEURARobotics, one of the largest private rounds in humanoid robotics history
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@MIT_CSAIL published Masked IRL, cutting robot training data needs by 5x using LLMs to clarify vague instructions and filter irrelevant environment details
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@UBTECHRobotics unveiled the U1 Pro home companion humanoid with 1,943 pre-orders ahead of its June 30 launch
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@XPENG_Global CEO He Xiaopeng took direct command of its robotics unit as IRON humanoid mass production targets end of 2026
πΎ Web3 Robotics
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@openmind_agi open-sourced BrainPack for Unitree G1/Go2 and LimX Tron 1, and added mid-conversation multi-language support to OM
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@SwarmSubnet released SOTApilot, hitting 95.34% on its 1,000-seed UAV autonomy benchmark across 6 environments
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@UnitreeRobotics partnered with
@BitRobotNetwork,
@LightwheelAI, and
@singaporetech on a Humanoid IKEA Assembly Challenge
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@exylos_ai launched on Virtuals with three robot manipulation training datasets live on Hugging Face
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@virtuals_io's Eastworlds deployed a teleoperated humanoid as a pair-housekeeper at a hotel in Malaysia to collect real-world data at scale
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@GEODNET went live on
@peaq peaqOS via robotic./sh, giving any peaqOS robot on-demand centimeter-precise positioning