Latest News

1. Phybot(动易科技) releases the PhyArc series of cycloidal joint modules with quasi-direct drive (Demo video(bilibili) ).
2. Galaxea AI unveils the R1 Lite dual-arm mobile platform，replicating $\pi_0$-related demonstrations (Documentation link: https://docs.galaxea-ai.com/zh/Guide/R1Lite/R1Lite_Hardware_Introduction/).
3. UniX AI debuts its mass-production full-size humanoid Wanda 2.0, now shipping with an 8 DoF bionic arm and 6 kg payload capacity (Demo video(bilibili) ).
4. Fei-Fei Li’s group and Google publish CoM, a multimodal robot-control method that generates control parameters from vision, force, audio, and other signals (Project link: https://chain-of-modality.github.io/).
5. The 2025 World Robot Congress & 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games will take place August 8–12 in Beijing’s Yizhuang district.
6. AgiBot and Open Drive Lab launch the AgiBot World Challenge, featuring two tracks—Manipulation and World Model.
7. Sequoia Capital hosts AI Ascent 2025 on May 2, with keynotes by Sam Altman, Jeff Dean, Jim Fan, and others (News link: https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ai-ascent-2025/ ;YouTube playlist).
8. Amazon Robotics unveils the Vulcan system, achieving near-human speeds in pick-and-place sorting (News link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/amazon-robotics-vulcan-warehouse-picking).

Featured Projects

1. Orca Hand open-sources its MuJoCo model, enabling hobbyists and researchers to simulate the five-finger robotic gripper (Project link: https://www.orcahand.com/).
2. PyRoki: a modular kinematics-optimization toolkit, using a Levenberg–Marquardt optimizer for IK, trajectory optimization, and motion retargeting, with a web-based real-time visualization (Project link: https://pyroki-toolkit.github.io/).
3. Awesome-Humanoid-Robot-Learning, a curated repository of papers on humanoid-robot learning across various directions (Project link: https://github.com/YanjieZe/awesome-humanoid-robot-learning).
4. Functional Manipulation Benchmark (FMB), UC Berkeley’s open benchmark platform for evaluating generalizable robot manipulation methods (Project link: https://functional-manipulation-benchmark.github.io/).