Reinforcement Learning

Re-engineering the Semiconductor Supply Chain with Intel CEO Lip Bu Tan

Object-Centric Residual RL for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real VLA Enhancement

Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park

Kairos: A Native World Model Stack for Physical AI

T-Rex: Tactile-Reactive Dexterous Manipulation

Hy-Embodied-0.5-VLA: From Vision-Language-Action Models to a Real-World Robot Learning Stack

Improving Robotic Generalist Policies via Flow Reversal Steering

Mana: Dexterous Manipulation of Articulated Tools

CHORUS: Decentralized Multi-Embodiment Collaboration with One VLA Policy

FACTR 2: Learning External Force Sensing for Commodity Robot Arms Improves Policy Learning

IMPACT: Learning Internal-Model Predictive Control for Forceful Robotic Manipulation

TacForeSight: Force-Guided Tactile World Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation

Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing

Shield-Loco: Shielding Locomotion Policies with Predictive Safety Filtering

FlowPRO: Reward-Free Reinforced Fine-Tuning of Flow-Matching VLAs via Proximalized Preference Optimization

GRAIL: Generating Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from 3D Assets and Video Priors

Humanoid-GPT: Scaling Data and Structure for Zero-Shot Motion Tracking

RDGen: Demonstration Generation for High-Quality Robot Learning via Reinforcement Learning

VLA-Pro: Cross-Task Procedural Memory Transfer for Vision-Language-Action Models

How to Instruct Your Robot: Dense Language Annotations Power Robot Policy Learning

BORA: Bridging Offline Reinforcement Learning and Online Residual Adaptation for Real-World Dexterous VLA Models

EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models

Humanoid Everyday: A Comprehensive Robotic Dataset for Open-World Humanoid Manipulation

How Cursor Trained Composer on Fireworks: Distributed Infrastructure for High-Performance RL

When Absolute State Fails: Evaluating Proprioceptive Encodings for Robust Manipulation

166: 许华哲再次具身创业：不想错过最大的西瓜

Towards Long-horizon Embodied Agents with Tool-Aligned Vision-Language-Action Models

How to 10x any AI skill using Karpathy's Autoresearch method

Factored Diffusion Policies:Compositionally Generalized Robot Control with a Single Score Network

Judge, Then Drive: A Critic-Centric Vision Language Action Framework for Autonomous Driving

Superhuman Safe and Agile Racing through Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment

165: 英伟达 GEAR 高深远：世界模型、自进化循环、DreamDojo

Eric Jang – Building AlphaGo from scratch

RLDX-1 Technical Report

Energy, Minerals, and the Physical Stack Behind AI

What to Ignore, What to React: Visually Robust RL Fine-Tuning of VLA Models

Import AI 455: AI systems are about to start building themselves.

$\Delta$VLA: Prior-Guided Vision-Language-Action Models via World Knowledge Variation

Beyond Bigger Models: Recursion As The Next Scaling Law In AI

Learning while Deploying: Fleet-Scale Reinforcement Learning for Generalist Robot Policies

Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering

LaST-R1: Reinforcing Action via Adaptive Physical Latent Reasoning for VLA Models

163: 详解DeepSeekV4：Infra巨鲸、百万上下文走进现实、极致效率优化

Why We Need Continual Learning

OpenAI and Microsoft Make Nice

dWorldEval: Scalable Robotic Policy Evaluation via Discrete Diffusion World Model

138. 对罗福莉3.5小时访谈：AI范式已然巨变！OpenClaw、Agent范式很吃后训练、卡的分配、组织平权

Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment

137. 对洪乐潼的4小时访谈：AI for Math、把数学变成Lean、数学天书中的证明、直觉、被创造与被发现的

FLASH: Fast Learning via GPU-Accelerated Simulation for High-Fidelity Deformable Manipulation in Minutes

Novel Algorithms for Smoothly Differentiable and Efficiently Vectorizable Contact Manifold Construction

From Models to Mobility: Building Waymo with Dmitri Dolgov

DEX-Mouse: A Low-cost Portable and Universal Interface with Force Feedback for Data Collection of Dexterous Robotic Hands

Switch: Learning Agile Skills Switching for Humanoid Robots

How a 20-Person Startup Won Gold at the Math Olympiad—Tying With OpenAI & DeepMind (Tudor Achim, CEO of Harmonic)

Learning Versatile Humanoid Manipulation with Touch Dreaming

Simulator Adaptation for Sim-to-Real Learning of Legged Locomotion via Proprioceptive Distribution Matching

Towards Practical World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models

Jensen Huang: 10 Lessons From the CEO Building the Most Important Company in History

Learning Humanoid Standing-up Control across Diverse Postures

RPL: Learning Robust Humanoid Perceptive Locomotion on Challenging Terrains

Sumo: Dynamic and Generalizable Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation

CMP: Robust Whole-Body Tracking for Loco-Manipulation via Competence Manifold Projection

Large Reward Models: Generalizable Online Robot Reward Generation with Vision-Language Models

Adaptive Action Chunking at Inference-time for Vision-Language-Action Models

Not All Features Are Created Equal: A Mechanistic Study of Vision-Language-Action Models

ABot-M0: VLA Foundation Model for Robotic Manipulation with Action Manifold Learning

Marc Andreessen on AI Winters and Agent Breakthroughs

An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison

ForeAct: Steering Your VLA with Efficient Visual Foresight Planning

157: 具身季报26Q1：人形再思考、英伟达世界模型、高自由度灵巧手

Functional Force-Aware Retargeting from Virtual Human Demos to Soft Robot Policies

SMASH: Mastering Scalable Whole-Body Skills for Humanoid Ping-Pong with Egocentric Vision

Sergey Levine - Building LLMs for the Physical World - [Invest Like the Best, EP.465]

Coordinated Humanoid Manipulation with Choice Policies

DIAL: Decoupling Intent and Action via Latent World Modeling for End-to-End VLA

Import AI 451: Political superintelligence; Google's society of minds, and a robot drummer

SOLE-R1: Video-Language Reasoning as the Sole Reward for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning

Scaling World Model for Hierarchical Manipulation Policies

134. 和谢晨聊“数据的综述”：AI和机器人数据的历史、版图、金字塔与Recipe

VLAW: Iterative Co-Improvement of Vision-Language-Action Policy and World Model

How François Chollet Is Building A New Path To AGI

A Unified and General Humanoid Whole-Body Controller for Versatile Locomotion

OmniRetarget: Interaction-Preserving Data Generation for Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation and Scene Interaction

Open-World Task and Motion Planning via Vision-Language Model Generated Constraints

Steerable Vision-Language-Action Policies for Embodied Reasoning and Hierarchical Control

Why One Superintelligence Is More Dangerous Than a Thousand (Vincent Weisser, CEO & Co-Founder of Prime Intellect)

How Autonomous Labs Will Transform Scientific Research: Ginkgo Bioworks’ Jason Kelly

DualCoT-VLA: Visual-Linguistic Chain of Thought via Parallel Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models

Andrej Karpathy on Code Agents, AutoResearch, and the Loopy Era of AI

Scaling Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Robot VLAs with Generative 3D Worlds

OmniVTA: Visuo-Tactile World Modeling for Contact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

Why Robots Still Struggle With Simple Tasks (And What Might Finally Change That) | Karol Hausman, Co-Founder & CEO…

From "Large and Strong" to "Small and Strong": Density Laws, RL Scaling Laws, and the Distributed Future of Intelligence

No Priors Ep. 142 | With Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra

Turing CEO, Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why SaaS Will Die?

Michael Levin: Reality is an Illusion - Alien Intelligence, Biology, Life | Lex Fridman Podcast #486

Interview with DeepMind's Jie Tan: Robotics, Cross-Embodiment, World Models, Gemini Robotics 1.5, and Google

Ilya Sutskever – We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research

142: How a Self-Teaching AI Product Emerges | Dialogue with Zebra CPO Xiu Jiaming

No Priors Ep. 141 | With Sunday Robotics Co-Founders Tony Zhao and Cheng Chi

140: AI for Science, From the Beginning to Now | Dialogue with Zhang Linfeng and Sun Weijie from DeepWisdom

Amjad Masad & Adam D’Angelo: How Far Are We From AGI?

Interview with Li Xiang (Part 2): CEO Large Model, MoE, Liang Wenfeng, VLA, Energy, Memory, Confronting Human Nature, Intimate Relationships, Human Wisdom

Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”

Fully autonomous robots are much closer than you think – Sergey Levine

AI Robots for Your Laundry w/Lindon Gao LIVE FROM CLEAN - S6E103 The Laundromat Millionaire Show✈️