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Excited to share that our work NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception has been accepted to #RSS2026! Your robot — even a low-cost one — can feel external forces without torque or tactile sensors. TL;DR: NeuralActuator is a neural actuator model that jointly predicts 1️⃣torque to capture the nonlinear and time-varying current–to–torque relationship of low-cost servos, 2️⃣external contact forces (and force detection gates) for sensorless force perception, 3️⃣and motor conditions that indicate each motor’s operating regime. Here is a fast-forward video clip ⬇️ We are also covering more robots like LeRobot-S101 and Franka Panda. More details coming soon.

Meta Platforms Inc. has acquired Assured Robot Intelligence, a startup developing artificial intelligence models for robots, as part of a major initiative to build humanoid technology. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

vision🍌 is here vision-banana.github.io if you got into computer vision the way I did, starting with pixel-level labeling tasks like segmentation, edges, depth, or surface normals, you’ll probably feel the same seeing these results -- something big has quietly shifted, and it’s going to change how we approach these problems for good 🧵

We're thrilled to announce the recipients of the Dexmate Build with Vega U Research Grant Program. Out of an incredible pool of proposals, six research teams have been selected to receive a Vega U dual-arm manipulation platform to advance their work in dexterous manipulation, Physical AI, and human-robot interaction. We built this program because we believe the future of Physical AI and robot intelligence will be shaped by leading research. These teams are pushing the boundaries of what's possible, and we're honored to put our full-stack Physical AI platform in their hands. Units ship in the coming weeks. We can't wait to see what they build. 🤖✨ #PhysicalAI #FullStackRobotics #DeveloperPlatform #Dexmate #Robotics #GeneralPurposeRobot #Vega #RoboticsResearch #Grant

💌 A message from our CEO, Tao Chen. In this video, he shares why we’re launching the Dexmate's Build with Vega U Research Grant Program and the future we’re building toward. Our mission is simple: make intelligent robotics accessible to the people pushing research forward. 💡 We’re inviting institutions and labs working on the next wave of Physical AI to apply: dexmate.ai/research-grant We believe the future of robotics will be built through close collaboration with the research community and this is just the beginning. If this resonates, share with a lab or researcher who should be part of this. #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #AIResearch #PhysicalAI #HumanRobotInteraction #ResearchGrant #Dexmate #Vega

🤖 Robotics faculty and labs, we’re launching our first Dexmate Research Grant Program. The future of AI will not live only in software. It will move, interact, and operate in the physical world. At Dexmate, we’re building toward that future by supporting the researchers shaping it. This program is designed to accelerate breakthroughs in physical AI, embodied intelligence, and real world robotics applications. Selected applicants will receive access to Vega U, our dual arm manipulation platform, to explore, build, and push the boundaries of what robots can do. 🧪 Applications are now open. Apply here: dexmate.ai/research-grant ✨ Eligibility: 
Full time faculty at accredited universities and degree granting research institutions with a US mailing address. 📅 Deadline
: April 5, 11:59 PM PST Not a faculty PI? Share this with your PI or lab lead. Tag someone who should apply. Let’s see what your lab builds next 🚀 #Dexmate #VegaU #robotics #PhysicalAI #EmbodiedAI #ResearchGrant #Innovation

Today, we present a step-change in robotic AI @sundayrobotics. Introducing ACT-1: A frontier robot foundation model trained on zero robot data. - Ultra long-horizon tasks - Zero-shot generalization - Advanced dexterity 🧵->

How do you give a humanoid the general motion capability? Not just single motions, but all motion? Introducing SONIC, our new work on supersizing motion tracking for natural humanoid control. We argue that motion tracking is the scalable foundation task for humanoids. So we "supersized" it: 9k+ GPU hours and 100M+ motion frames. But tracking alone is not enough; we show how to make a useful control system out of it: - Universal Kinematic Planner: Enables game-like gamepad control and high-level teleoperation, just like controlling a character in a game. - VR Full-Body Teleop: Direct, real-time whole-body control by a human wearing a VR headset. - VR Keypoint Teleop: Control the upper body (hands/head) while our planner handles robust locomotion automatically. - VLA Integration: We connect this motion tracker to autonomous Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous task execution! We use a Universal Token Space to UNIFY this command space, turning our robust tracker into a general-purpose, programmable humanoid brain. This is the generalist "System 1" for humanoids. 🚀 Project: nvlabs.github.io/SONIC/ #Humanoids #Robotics #AI #FoundationModels #NVIDIAResearch 🧠🔥