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Vitaly Bulatov

@vitl2907

working for @r_turb0

San Francisco, CA Katılım Kasım 2016
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UFB - Ultimate Fighting Bots
New League. New Website. Your favorite world-famous humanoid fights are entering the next phase. We’re launching the next generation of humanoid sports - the UFB Fighting League. Now’s your chance to get involved. Visit UFB.GG and join as a Pilot, Ghost, or Team Manager.
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Open Robotics
Open Robotics@OpenRoboticsOrg·
Here is your #ROS and open source robotics news for the week of March 9th, 2026: ☀️ROSCon Global 2026 Call for Proposals is out! ☀️GIANT ROS By-The-Bay meetup for NVIDIA GTC ☀️GSoC program drops Monday ☀️A full LeRobot SO-101 stack w/ ROS 2 ☀️Tactile sensor for @LeRobotHF ⬇️⬇️
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R.Turbo
R.Turbo@r_turb0·
1/ Join the Physical AI team in the heart of San Francisco to build with @NVIDIARobotics stack and the best minds in the space. We are a community with over 50 top roboticist including @GetSoloTech @UFBots @openDroids, the biggest robotics fleet - 60+ humanoids, arms, wheeled robots, and we push the frontier of Physical AI forward, together. physicalai.team
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Vitaly Bulatov@vitl2907·
Yesterday we held the UFB Ghost Trials at @CalHacks Hack Nights — hands-on trials where students learned to retarget motions from videos, train motion imitation policies (BeyondMimic) in mjlab, then competed in sim + real robot deployments! This is about making advanced humanoid training accessible to students everywhere — not just labs. Top teams impressed, making progress towards permanent placement in the league. Congrats to team Molt, Justin and Alice, for taking the win 🚀🤖 Shoutout to @kevin_zakka (creator of mjlab — the backbone of our sim training) and massive props to @UFBots tech team: @emerson @_patrickrose and @DDobas for powering this and pushing the frontier forward! Video of sim showdowns, real deployments, and winners below 👇
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David Dobáš
David Dobáš@DDobas·
Just deployed @nvidia Sonic on the G1 with @UFBots . Zero-shotted our custom move, no training needed. Everything is just one policy. Impressively stable.
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Pablo Vela
Pablo Vela@pablovelagomez1·
We have SLAM on the Robocap! 🎉 Visualized with @rerundotio Using @NVIDIAAIDev cuVSLAM for GPU-accelerated multicamera tracking. I basically wrote zero code myself and fully used Claude Code for this. It worked because I had so many existing examples to point to that it just wrote everything the way I would have. A few technical wins: 1. Used rattler-build from @prefix_dev to package the compiled cuVSLAM CUDA binaries, which made it SUPER easy to use across repos. This also means it works on the DGX Spark (ARM64) out of the box. 2. Zero-setup experience: git clone && pixi run track-robocap auto-downloads a 100MB dataset from HuggingFace and tracks frames. 3. Real-time 3D visualization with trajectories, landmarks, pose graphs, and video playback in Rerun. Still visual-only (not visual-inertial yet), and loop closure needs some debugging. Next steps are getting this into a Gradio interface, then into daggr, and extending it to work with other datasets from exoego-forge. The last piece I'm excited about: Rerun's RRD files now support layers for incremental data. Planning to build pipelines that go from raw sensor data → slam -> human pose → depth estimation → etc. Repo here: github.com/rerun-io/roboc…
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To start my time with @rerundotio, I want to give an idea as to what I'll be working on over the next few months. I included a small sneak peek of things using the new daggr framework from @Gradio, which is a node-based Gradio space orchestrator. I've been thinking about everything I've worked on so far and how much coding has changed. As the first major project, I'll be consolidating all my disparate repos into a single cohesive repo. The goal is to have a definitive end-to-end pipeline for egocentric and exocentric data collection and to explain how @rerundotio fits in at each stage: from raw sensor collection, prelabeled data ingestion, data quality, annotation, and finally model training and evaluation. BUT with the specific goal of trying to write as little code myself, I'll be heavily leaning on using Claude Code and Codex. I'm honestly not sure how this will go, but I'll be making this a public experiment to show what works and what doesn't. I think a critical part of this will be to use the right abstraction, some seed code, and the tooling I mention below to try to make this successful. The plan is to make small, modular, composable pieces that will ideally work well with agentic development. I'll be leaning on the following @rerundotio - deep visual debuggibility + rrd artifacts that agents can interface with pyserde - used for typesafe serialization and deserialization of Python dataclass with numpy and JSON. beartype + jaxtyping - runtime type checking generally, as well as numpy dtype and shape. Perfect for reducing agent errors @Gradio - API disguised as a UI. Perfect for agent use to validate inputs/outputs and for easy human-in-the-loop visual validation daggr - orchestration layer between Gradio nodes for end-to-end testing on a single timestep playwright cli - for agent visual debugging + automation and lots of testing infrastructure Anyway, I'll be sharing more over time as I continue to build in public!

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Xenia Bulatov
Xenia Bulatov@XeniaBulatov·
February at UFB was packed. Tech + culture + shows all accelerating at once. ⚡️ Here’s the breakdown 👇
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David Dobáš
David Dobáš@DDobas·
Last week, we ran 8 humanoid robots live at DJ Wukong’s Chinese New Year show. 5 on stage. 3 with VIPs. I ran the full pipeline, from mocap to sim to real deployment. Here’s what worked (and what didn’t).
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Xenia Bulatov
Xenia Bulatov@XeniaBulatov·
Another proud moment: UFB team is the first team outside of China to program and present the synchronized dance of 5 humanoids on stage, live in front of 8,000 people. The performance happened in Kuala Lumpur on Feb 16, during the Lunar New Year celebration performance of DJ Wukong at Genting.
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Xenia Bulatov
Xenia Bulatov@XeniaBulatov·
UFB robot fights just hit 10K concurrent viewers and 164K VOD on Twitch in our collab stream with @sushitrash and @virginmusic. That’s television-level reach. We are creating the cultural playbook for humanoids - and it will move the entire robotics industry forward. DM me if you want to work with the best team defining Physical AI sports entertainment.
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Xenia Bulatov
Xenia Bulatov@XeniaBulatov·
Unbeatable energy yesterday at @sushitrash new album release party, brought by @virginmusic and @UFBots. The music, fans and special guest appearances made the night truly magical - everyone left with a happy smile in their face and unforgettable memories. It was honestly one of the best entertainment experiences I have been to. Kudos to Virgin Music Group team for smooth execution - wonderful group of professionals, talent network and fan community!
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Vitaly Bulatov@vitl2907·
🤖 This weekend we brought our robots to @agihouse_org Autonomous Robot Build Day - and wow, the builders delivered. 3 tracks covering all aspects of training robots. Humanoid tele-op and data collection, data prep, world models, RL sim, VLAs. Real tasks (serving drinks, kitchen cleanup) plus wild dances and genuinely funny robots. This is what “teaching AI to use the real world” looks like. Huge thanks to JW Horizon, @nebiusai, @livekit, and @NomadicML for making this happen. Check out the projects here: app.agihouse.org/events/Autonom…
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Vitaly Bulatov@vitl2907·
@AhmadShiddiqN @openclaw @rosorg That’s why low-level control of the robot is on the ROS side - but your robot can talk to the rest of your agents, exchange information and tasks with them using @openclaw and then perform them IRL
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mad@AhmadShiddiqN·
@vitl2907 @openclaw @rosorg I was thinking about it too, until I remembered that most (if not all) of LLMs are not real-time.
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AI agents can now control robots! For ClawCon, we integrated @openclaw and @rosorg - the largest open-source robotics stack powering millions of robots worldwide. If you had an autonomous agent IRL, what would you make it do?
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Vitaly Bulatov@vitl2907·
I’ve been at plenty of robotics hackathons, but this one felt different. True grassroots effort, strong teams, real robots that actually worked. What stood out most was how accessible robotics has become — from @LeRobotHF to @UnitreeRobotics humanoids - this is no longer just for big labs. A 13-year-old won one of the tracks. I don’t think it’s cute, it’s the future. There’s a huge wave of real-world automation coming and the way we teach robots is surprisingly human and natural now.  I’m happy that we can share our fleet to support efforts like this. In robotics, the only thing that matters is how many working robots you’ve shipped. Big congrats to all teams that shipped at least one this weekend 🎉 @DhruvDiddi@GZinMetaverse@stsqit big success on organizing!
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Natalie
Natalie@livinoffwater·
We’re giving @openclaw agents a humanoid body to see, hear and operate. The countdown starts now.
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Xenia Bulatov
Xenia Bulatov@XeniaBulatov·
Just wrapped up mentoring at @realityhackmit 2026 @UFBots were the first to bring @UnitreeRobotics and @boosterobotics humanoids there and had a fun time building with so many talented teams. A pleasant surprise to me, so many teams were building socially aware bots, equipped with Gemini and sensors to “read the room”, solving some interesting social human challenges, like overcoming fears and making better decisions. One of the teams we worked with - Love, Hate and Robot - took 1st place in the @GeminiApp track! Their project blended Android XR, Gemini Live, and Unitree G1 to turn everyday dilemmas into real-time embodied interactions - a beautiful mix of AI, XR & robotics. Check out the winning project here: devpost.com/software/love-… Got a chance to try on the robot teleoperation via the new Android XR Galaxy headset. The wide hand-tracking range and the ability to see the real world below the headset are meaningful improvements in usability. Still, the weight guarantees a headache if you wear it over 15 minutes. The new discovery is the AR glasses from @rayneo_global - lightweight, fast, with a wide field of view. Definitely much more usable form factor for having digital overlays - lots of potential for gamified experiences.
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