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  1. 6 JAN

    Episode 73: Titan of the Factory Floor: Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Steps into Production

    # Titan of the Factory Floor: Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Steps into Production *Boston Dynamics Unveils New Atlas Robot to Revolutionize Industry • Boston Dynamics (Hyundai/DeepMind partnership) • Jan. 5, 2026* Boston Dynamics shook up the robotics world at CES 2026 by revealing a **production-read...

    36 min

  2. 6 JAN

    Episode 72: InternVLA-A1: Unifying Understanding, Generation and Action for Robot Manipulation

    # InternVLA-A1: Unifying Understanding, Generation and Action for Robot Manipulation InternVLA-A1: Unifying Understanding, Generation and Action for Robotic Manipulation • InternRobotics (Shanghai AI Lab) • 2026 Shanghai AI Lab’s InternRobotics group has open‐sourced **InternVLA-A1**, a 2B/3...

    25 min

  3. 6 JAN

    Episode 71: Large Video Planner: Instruction-Guided Video Plans for General Robot Control

    In “Large Video Planner Enables Generalizable Robot Control” (Chen *et al.*, 2025) the authors propose a new paradigm for robot planning: train a **massive video generative model** on diverse human and robot task videos, and use its output as a visual “plan” that can be retargeted to real rob...

    52 min

  4. 5 JAN

    Episode 70: Humanoid Moves or Just Movie Magic? Unitree’s H2 Demo Sparks Debate

    *“Unitree Humanoid Robot Training” • Reddit/r/robotics discussion • Jan 4, 2026* In late December 2025, Chinese firm Unitree Robotics posted a video of its new full-size H2 humanoid performing pirouettes, karate kicks, and even sparring with a smaller G1 robot. The footage went viral and drew ...

    22 min

  5. 5 JAN

    Episode 69: Unitree’s “Embodied Avatar”: A Full-Body Teleoperation Data Engine

    # Unitree’s “Embodied Avatar”: A Full-Body Teleoperation Data Engine *Original source: “Embodied Avatar: Full-body Teleoperation Platform” • Unitree Robotics • Nov 06, 2025* In a new demo called “Embodied Avatar,” Chinese robotics maker Unitree showed a human wearing a motion-capture suit and V...

    27 min

  6. 5 JAN

    Episode 68: Galaxea Open-Sources G0-Plus VLA Model, Demos “Pick Up Anything”

    *Open-sourced G0 Plus VLA & “Pick Up Anything” demo • Galaxea Dynamics • Jan 2026* Galaxea Dynamics has just thrown open its doors: they’ve released the code and pretrained weights of their G0 Vision–Language–Action (VLA) model (dubbed **G0-Plus**) and showcased a “Pick Up Anything” demo of la...

    32 min

  7. 5 JAN

    Episode 67: Backpack Lab: AgiBot’s 0.8m Q1 Mini-Humanoid

    *Q1: Agibot unveils mini humanoid robot that can fit in a backpack • Interesting Engineering (IE Media) • Jan 1, 2026* Chinese startup AgiBot (also known as Zhiyuan Robotics) has introduced a strikingly small AI humanoid, the **Q1**, only 0.8 m tall and light enough to carry in a backpack. ...

    34 min

  8. 4 JAN

    Episode 66: DiffThinker: Diffusion-based Generative Multimodal Reasoning

    # DiffThinker: Diffusion-based Generative Multimodal Reasoning The legend of AI reasoning has long revolved around humans picturing solutions in their heads – an inherently visual process. Modern AI has made huge strides with models that fuse text and images (so-called **Multimodal LLMs**), suc...

    46 min
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  • Creator
    Shaoqing Tan
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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    72
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