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OpenRUA's five-layer harness lets Qwen reach 31.39 without depth on RoboDojo and 53.50 zero-shot on physical tasks, while exposing grounding, geometry, and hardware-support limits.
Dream Machines fine-tunes pi0.5 on a bimanual actuator unboxing task: 76% with 21h of data, 90% after one clean hour, 93% from RTC serving settings alone, while LoRA and training from scratch fall far short.
System One models skip token-by-token answers and return a choice, score, or probability in one forward pass. A guide to 15 studies on dynamic candidates, multimodality, retrieval, and selective reasoning.
AW-0 jointly denoises a generated skill program, future video and action chunk. Code guides control without being executed by default, while a gated hybrid mode can run verified programs.
A hands-on route from empty Unreal project to playable slice with Claude Opus 5.5, including MCP setup, staged prompts, live-editor limits, costs, and recovery.
Dream Labs emerges from stealth with $90M in seed funding and Dream-1, a World Action Model that drives 27 robots it was never trained on over a public API at $3 an hour, about $0.0013 per action.
Google ships Gemini 4 Argon, a general-purpose physical reasoning model scoring 87% on ERQA with pure reasoning, backed by twelve demos across robot control, Real2Sim, physical understanding and self-improvement. We break down each example, quote every published number, and separate declared capability from independently verified reliability.
NVIDIA studies GPT-6 Astra as a native robot policy: Agentic Policy tops RoboLab-120 at 74.8%, but each call averages 18.56 s and a successful episode costs 30.9M tokens ($36.40).
Gemini 4 Argon tops ERQA at 87% with pure reasoning, with prompts across robot control, Real2Sim, physical understanding and self-improvement: MuJoCo twins, zero-shot control, hindsight labeling.
Stanford TML's HomeBody drops the learned VLA middle layer: GPT Astra calls a library of composable skills on a Unitree G1, backed by a digital twin and persistent spatial memory the robot builds by exploring a home it has never seen, then tidies an unseen kitchen and fetches medicine with no task-specific training.
NVIDIA ships 38 Isaac Sim Agent Skills with the distribution: procedures, handoff contracts and acceptance thresholds in SKILL.md teach coding agents to finish and validate robot sims like engineers.
Seeed's open-source six-axis arm in full: 96 STEP files, a screw-level BOM recomputed line by line (motors = 89.9%), the published thermal-test limits, the CERN-OHL-W-2.0 licence switch, and the LeRobot + GR00T N1.7 overnight autonomy loop.
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