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PODNO PRIORSJUN 18, 2026
Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan
ELAD GIL, LIP BU TAN, SARAH GUO
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSJUN 18, 2026
SpaceX's AI rocket fuel
PITCHBOOK NEWS
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 17, 2026
Do as I Do: Dexterous Manipulation Data from Everyday Human Videos
BHAWNA PALIWAL, JITENDRA MALIK, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 17, 2026
TactSpace: Learning a Physics-enriched Shared Latent Space for Tactile Sim-to-Real Transfer
ARUNIM JOARDER, MARCO HUTTER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
NEWSPOSTROUNDJUN 15, 2026
Series A activity: Week of June 7, 2026
POSTROUND
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 15, 2026
Kairos: A Native World Model Stack for Physical AI
KAIROS TEAM, XIAOGANG WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 15, 2026
T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation
DANTONG NIU, TREVOR DARRELL, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 15, 2026
What Matters in Orchestrating Robot Policies: A Systematic Study of Hierarchical VLA Agents
JIAHENG HU, ANNIE XIE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 12, 2026
Hy-Embodied-0.5-VLA: From Vision-Language-Action Models to a Real-World Robot Learning Stack
HE ZHANG, ZHENGYOU ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
NEWSAXIOS PRO RATAJUN 11, 2026
Axios Pro Rata: Bezos billions
DAN PRIMACK
PODTHE A16Z SHOWJUN 11, 2026
Designing the Physical World with AI
ALEX MODON, DAVIDE ASNAGI, ERIN PRICE-WRIGHT
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 11, 2026
Improving Robotic Generalist Policies via Flow Reversal Steering
ANDY TANG, SERGEY LEVINE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 11, 2026
Mana: Dexterous Manipulation of Articulated Tools
ZHAO-HENG YIN, C. KAREN LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 11, 2026
WEAVER, Better, Faster, Longer: An Effective World Model for Robotic Manipulation
ARNAV KUMAR JAIN, ANDREA BAJCSY, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 11, 2026
WT-UMI: Tactile-based Whole-Body Manipulation via Force-Supervised Contact-Aware Planning
JAEHWI JANG, YE ZHAO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 10, 2026
CHORUS: Decentralized Multi-Embodiment Collaboration with One VLA Policy
RIA DOSHI, JEANNETTE BOHG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 10, 2026
FACTR 2: Learning External Force Sensing for Commodity Robot Arms Improves Policy Learning
STEVEN OH, DEEPAK PATHAK, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
POD晚点聊 LATETALKJUN 10, 2026
168: 对话王新宇:美团龙珠怎么投科技?
MANCHI, 晚点团队
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 9, 2026
IMPACT: Learning Internal-Model Predictive Control for Forceful Robotic Manipulation
JIAWEI GAO, YILUN DU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 9, 2026
TacForeSight: Force-Guided Tactile World Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation
YUJIE ZANG, WENCHAO DING, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
NEWSPOSTROUNDJUN 8, 2026
Series A activity: Week of May 31, 2026
POSTROUND
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 8, 2026
MotionWAM: Towards Foundation World Action Models for Real-Time Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
JIA ZHENG, JUNWEI LIANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 7, 2026
OASIS: From Simulation Data Collection to Real-World Humanoid Loco-Manipulation
ZEHAO YU, XUELONG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
NEWSSTRICTLYVCJUN 5, 2026
Anthropic Urges Its Competitors to Hit the Pause Button
CONNIE LOIZOS
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 5, 2026
LARA: Latent Action Representation Alignment for Vision-Language-Action Models
MENGYA LIU, SIYUAN HUANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 5, 2026
Shield-Loco: Shielding Locomotion Policies with Predictive Safety Filtering
ADITYA SHIRWATKAR, MAJID KHADIV, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 4, 2026
OneVLA: A Unified Framework for Embodied Tasks
LINGFENG ZHANG, WENBO DING, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 4, 2026
ProGAL-VLA: Grounded Alignment through Prospective Reasoning in Vision-Language-Action Models
NASTARAN DARABI, A. TRIVEDI
PODINVEST LIKE THE BESTJUN 3, 2026
Dara Khosrowshahi - Uber's Bet on AVs, AI, and Building a Super-App - [Invest Like the Best, EP.476]
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI, PATRICK O'SHAUGHNESSY
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 3, 2026
FlowPRO: Reward-Free Reinforced Fine-Tuning of Flow-Matching VLAs via Proximalized Preference Optimization
YIHAO WU, ZHENGYOU ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 2, 2026
ElegantVLA: Learning When to Think for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models
YE LI, ZHI WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 2, 2026
Humanoid-GPT: Scaling Data and Structure for Zero-Shot Motion Tracking
ZEKUN QI, LI YI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 2, 2026
NVIDIA OmniDreams: Real-Time Generative World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
NVIDIA, ZIAN WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 2, 2026
RDGen: Demonstration Generation for High-Quality Robot Learning via Reinforcement Learning
ZIJIA ZHU, XINHAI SUN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
NEWSAXIOS AI+JUN 1, 2026
🌎 Nvidia's world move
AXIOS AI+
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 1, 2026
Colosseum V2: Benchmarking Generalization for Vision Language Action Models
JEREMY MORGAN, ISHIKA SINGH, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIJUN 1, 2026
VLA-Pro: Cross-Task Procedural Memory Transfer for Vision-Language-Action Models
SHENGYUN SI, YU-GANG JIANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 29, 2026
How to Instruct Your Robot: Dense Language Annotations Power Robot Policy Learning
BOSUNG KIM, PRITHVIRAJ AMMANABROLU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSMAY 28, 2026
Defense tech VC's graduation
PITCHBOOK NEWS
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 28, 2026
BORA: Bridging Offline Reinforcement Learning and Online Residual Adaptation for Real-World Dexterous VLA Models
ZHONGXI CHEN, WENZHAO LIAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 28, 2026
EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models
PERRY DONG, CHELSEA FINN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 28, 2026
FineVLA: Fine-Grained Instruction Alignment for Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies
XINTONG HU, TAO YU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 28, 2026
Qwen-VLA: Unifying Vision-Language-Action Modeling across Tasks, Environments, and Robot Embodiments
QIUYUE WANG, XIONGHUI CHEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 28, 2026
VisualThink-VLA: Visual Intermediate Reasoning for Effective and Low-Latency Vision-Language-Action Policies
MINGJIAN GAO, YUETING ZHUANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
POD张小珺JÙN|商业访谈录MAY 28, 2026
143. 对何小鹏的第二次访谈:更大赌注、人形机器人Iron诞生、那场意外、技术剧变下CEO、GX和缝合怪
何小鹏, 小俊
NEWSTHE AI CORNERMAY 27, 2026
Sam Altman watched 900 million people talk to one personality every week
THE AI CORNER
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 27, 2026
Beyond Binary: Sim-to-Real Dexterous Manipulation with Physics-Grounded Contact Representation
JIAHE PAN, TORU LIN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 27, 2026
Cybo-Waiter: A Physical Agentic Framework for Humanoid Whole-Body Locomotion-Manipulation
PENGHUA REN, KAIYANG CHEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 27, 2026
Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation
ZHENYU ZHAO, YUE WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
NEWSAXIOS AI+MAY 26, 2026
🚨 Hassabis sounds alarm
AXIOS AI+
PAPRUNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NABLAS RESEARCHMAY 26, 2026
When Absolute State Fails: Evaluating Proprioceptive Encodings for Robust Manipulation
MAXIME ALVAREZ, GENKI SANO, ET AL. (UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, NABLAS)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 26, 2026
RIO: Flexible Real-Time Robot I/O for Cross-Embodiment Robot Learning
PABLO ORTEGA-KRAL, JEAN OH, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
POD晚点聊 LATETALKMAY 25, 2026
166: 许华哲再次具身创业:不想错过最大的西瓜
MANCHI, 晚点团队
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 22, 2026
GuidedVLA: Specifying Task-Relevant Factors via Plug-and-Play Action Attention Specialization
XIAOSONG JIA, YU-GANG JIANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 22, 2026
Towards Long-horizon Embodied Agents with Tool-Aligned Vision-Language-Action Models
ZIXING LEI, SIHENG CHEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 21, 2026
Factored Diffusion Policies:Compositionally Generalized Robot Control with a Single Score Network
SAYAN MITRA, ABHISHEK PAI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 21, 2026
Imagine2Real: Towards Zero-shot Humanoid-Object Interaction via Video Generative Priors
JIAHE CHEN, JINGBO WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 21, 2026
Judge, Then Drive: A Critic-Centric Vision Language Action Framework for Autonomous Driving
LIJIN YANG, HAO YANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 21, 2026
PokeVLA: Empowering Pocket-Sized Vision-Language-Action Model with Comprehensive World Knowledge Guidance
YUPENG ZHENG, WENCHAO DING, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 21, 2026
Superhuman Safe and Agile Racing through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
ISMAIL GELES, DAVIDE SCARAMUZZA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PODTHE A16Z SHOWMAY 20, 2026
Marc Andreessen on AI, California, and the Future of America | Joe Rogan
JOE ROGAN, MARC ANDREESSEN
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 20, 2026
PointACT: Vision-Language-Action Models with Multi-Scale Point-Action Interaction
SHIZHE CHEN, PAUL PACAUD, CORDELIA SCHMID
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 18, 2026
MolmoAct2: Action Reasoning Models for Real-world Deployment
HAOQUAN FANG, RANJAY KRISHNA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 18, 2026
StableVLA: Towards Robust Vision-Language-Action Models without Extra Data
YIYANG FU, DAQUAN ZHOU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 18, 2026
TacSE3: Equivariant SE(3) Motion Estimation from Low-Texture Visuotactile Images for In-Gripper Tracking and Compensation
ZHONGYUAN LIAO, MICHAEL YU WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
POD晚点聊 LATETALKMAY 18, 2026
165: 英伟达 GEAR 高深远:世界模型、自进化循环、DreamDojo
MANCHI, 晚点团队
PODLENNY'SMAY 17, 2026
Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)
CAITLIN KALINOWSKI, LENNY RACHITSKY, MARIANA SENKO
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 17, 2026
Do World Action Models Generalize Better than VLAs? A Robustness Study
ZHANGUANG ZHANG, YINGXUE ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 17, 2026
VLA-ATTC: Adaptive Test-Time Compute for VLA Models with Relative Action Critic Model
WENHAO LI, CHANG XU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 15, 2026
Offline Semantic Guidance for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Distillation
JIN SHI, BRADY ZHANG, YISHUN LU
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 15, 2026
RLDX-1 Technical Report
DONGYOUNG KIM, JINWOO SHIN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 13, 2026
Realtime-VLA FLASH: Speculative Inference Framework for Diffusion-based VLAs
JIAHUI NIU, HUAWEI LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 13, 2026
What to Ignore, What to React: Visually Robust RL Fine-Tuning of VLA Models
YUANFANG PENG, RUI WANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 5, 2026
TiPToP: A Modular Open-Vocabulary Planning System for Robotic Manipulation
WILLIAM SHEN, TOM'AS LOZANO-P'EREZ, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 4, 2026
$\Delta$VLA: Prior-Guided Vision-Language-Action Models via World Knowledge Variation
YIJIE ZHU, ZITONG YU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PODSOURCERYMAY 1, 2026
Figure’s Humanoid Factory Tour – CEO Brett Adcock
BRETT ADCOCK, MOLLY O'SHEA, MORITZ
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIMAY 1, 2026
Learning while Deploying: Fleet-Scale Reinforcement Learning for Generalist Robot Policies
YI WANG, JIANLAN LUO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PODSOURCERYAPR 30, 2026
Brett Adcock, CEO of Figure
BRETT ADCOCK, MOLLY O'SHEA
NEWSSOURCERY NEWSLETTERAPR 30, 2026
BREAKING: Brett Adcock, CEO of Figure
MOLLY O'SHEA
PODTRAINING DATAAPR 30, 2026
Demis Hassabis on Building DeepMind, AlphaFold, and the Final Stretch to AGI
DEMIS HASSABIS, KONSTANTINE BUHLER
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
DOT-Sim: Differentiable Optical Tactile Simulation with Precise Real-to-Sim Physical Calibration
YANG YOU, LEONIDAS GUIBAS, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
FlexiTac: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Scalable Tactile Sensing Solution for Robotic Systems
BINGHAO HUANG, YUNZHU LI
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models
HAO CHEN, PHENG-ANN HENG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
MotuBrain: An Advanced World Action Model for Robot Control
MOTUBRAIN TEAM, JUN ZHU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 30, 2026
RopeDreamer: A Kinematic Recurrent State Space Model for Dynamics of Flexible Deformable Linear Objects
TIM MISSAL, PAULA DORNHOFER PARO COSTA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 29, 2026
Unified 4D World Action Modeling from Video Priors with Asynchronous Denoising
JUN GUO, HUAPING LIU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 24, 2026
RedVLA: Physical Red Teaming for Vision-Language-Action Models
YUHAO ZHANG, JIAMING JI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 24, 2026
dWorldEval: Scalable Robotic Policy Evaluation via Discrete Diffusion World Model
YAXUAN LI, YICHEN ZHU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
POD晚点聊 LATETALKAPR 23, 2026
162: 中国最早AI创业者的故事,与唐文斌聊天才策略、旷视、十年前的机器人和具身新创业
MANCHI, 晚点团队
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 22, 2026
Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment
ADRIANA AIDA, PAVAN UPPUTURI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
NEWSLUCINDA SHENAPR 21, 2026
👀 Axios Pro Rata: Warsh Watch
LUCINDA SHEN
NEWSSTRICTLYVCAPR 21, 2026
Apple CEO Tim Cook Passes the Torch to Hardware Exec John Ternus
CONNIE LOIZOS
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 21, 2026
EmbodiedMidtrain: Bridging the Gap between Vision-Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models via Mid-training
YIYANG DU, CHENYAN XIONG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 21, 2026
UniT: Toward a Unified Physical Language for Human-to-Humanoid Policy Learning and World Modeling
BOYU CHEN, YIXIAO GE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 20, 2026
AnoleVLA: Lightweight Vision-Language-Action Model with Deep State Space Models for Mobile Manipulation
YUSUKE TAKAGI, KOMEI SUGIURA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 19, 2026
FLASH: Fast Learning via GPU-Accelerated Simulation for High-Fidelity Deformable Manipulation in Minutes
SIYUAN LUO, FAN SHI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 19, 2026
Novel Algorithms for Smoothly Differentiable and Efficiently Vectorizable Contact Manifold Construction
ONUR BEKER, GEORG MARTIUS, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
NEWSSTRICTLYVCAPR 17, 2026
Sequoia Pulls in $7B to Invest in Late-Stage AI Deals
CONNIE LOIZOS
PODTHE A16Z SHOWAPR 17, 2026
From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov
A16Z PRODUCER / ANNOUNCER, DMITRI DOLGOV, JOHN COLLISON, UNLABELED SPEAKER / INTERJECTION
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 17, 2026
Observing and Controlling Features in Vision-Language-Action Models
HUGO BUURMEIJER, MARCO PAVONE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 17, 2026
VADF: Vision-Adaptive Diffusion Policy Framework for Efficient Robotic Manipulation
XINGLEI YU, YANWEI FU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 17, 2026
VP-VLA: Visual Prompting as an Interface for Vision-Language-Action Models
ZIXUAN WANG, JIAYA JIA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PODLIGHTCONEAPR 16, 2026
The GPT Moment for Robotics Is Here
DIANA HU, GARRY TAN, HARJ TAGGAR, JARED FRIEDMAN, QUAN VUONG, UNIDENTIFIED PARTICIPANT
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSAPR 16, 2026
A race for the wealthy
PITCHBOOK NEWS
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 16, 2026
DEX-Mouse: A Low-cost Portable and Universal Interface with Force Feedback for Data Collection of Dexterous Robotic Hands
JOONHO KOH, CHANGJOO NAM, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 16, 2026
R3D: Revisiting 3D Policy Learning
ZHENGDONG HONG, JIAYUAN GU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 16, 2026
Vision-Based Safe Human-Robot Collaboration with Uncertainty Guarantees
JAKOB THUMM, MARCO PAVONE, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 15, 2026
A Mechanistic Analysis of Sim-and-Real Co-Training in Generative Robot Policies
YU LEI, YUKE ZHU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
NEWSPITCHBOOK NEWSAPR 14, 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic's ARR row
PITCHBOOK NEWS
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 14, 2026
Learning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming
YARU NIU, DING ZHAO, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 13, 2026
Simulator Adaptation for Sim-to-Real Learning of Legged Locomotion via Proprioceptive Distribution Matching
JEREMY DAO, ALAN FERN
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 13, 2026
Towards Practical World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
ZHILONG ZHANG, YANG YU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 13, 2026
ViserDex: Visual Sim-to-Real for Robust Dexterous In-hand Reorientation
ARJUN BHARDWAJ, MARCO HUTTER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 10, 2026
Sim-to-Real Transfer for Muscle-Actuated Robots via Generalized Actuator Networks
JAN SCHNEIDER, DIETER BÜCHLER, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
NEWSSOURCERY NEWSLETTERAPR 9, 2026
BREAKING: 1st Look Inside Applied Intuition's $15B Physical AI Garage
MOLLY O'SHEA
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
A-SLIP: Acoustic Sensing for Continuous In-hand Slip Estimation
UKSANG YOO, JEFFREY ICHNOWSKI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
HEX: Humanoid-Aligned Experts for Cross-Embodiment Whole-Body Manipulation
SHUANGHAO BAI, BADONG CHEN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
LAMP: Lift Image-Editing as General 3D Priors for Open-world Manipulation
JINGJING WANG, GUOFENG ZHANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
Learning Humanoid Standing-up Control across Diverse Postures
TAO HUANG, JIANGMIAO PANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
RPL: Learning Robust Humanoid Perceptive Locomotion on Challenging Terrains
YUANHANG ZHANG, GUANYA SHI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds
YUNSONG ZHOU, JIANGMIAO PANG, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 9, 2026
Sumo: Dynamic and Generalizable Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation
JOHN Z. ZHANG, SIMON LE CLÉAC'H, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 8, 2026
CMP: Robust Whole-Body Tracking for Loco-Manipulation via Competence Manifold Projection
ZIYANG CHENG, JIWEN LU, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PODSOURCERYAPR 7, 2026
Inside the AI Garage Powering the Real World
MOLLY O'SHEA, PETER LUDWIG, QASAR YOUNIS
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 7, 2026
Action Images: End-to-End Policy Learning via Multiview Video Generation
HAOYU ZHEN, CHUANG GAN, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 7, 2026
SnapFlow: One-Step Action Generation for Flow-Matching VLAs via Progressive Self-Distillation
WUYANG LUAN, RUI MA, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PODSOURCERYAPR 6, 2026
Applied Intuition: The $15B Physical AI Company Out of Stealth
MOLLY O'SHEA, PETER LUDWIG, QASAR YOUNIS
NEWSSOURCERY NEWSLETTERAPR 6, 2026
BREAKING: Applied Intuition - $15B Physical AI Co. Out Of Stealth
MOLLY O'SHEA
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 6, 2026
DySL-VLA: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference via Dynamic-Static Layer-Skipping for Robot Manipulation
ZEBIN YANG, MENG LI, ET AL. (ARXIV PHYSICAL AI)
PAPRARXIV PHYSICAL AIAPR 6, 2026
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