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Andrea Bajcsy, an Assistant Professor at the Robotics Institute, has been named a recipient of the 2026 AI2050 Early Career Fellowship. This honor places her alongside fellow faculty members Akari Asai and Daniel Fried from the Language Technologies Institute, who also received the Schmidt Sciences...
MagicLab has announced that its VLM agent framework, EchoPolicy-0, achieved an average manipulation success rate of 75.4% across four tasks in the MolmoSpaces environment. This performance has placed it at the top of the leaderboard published by AI2. The significance of this achievement lies in the...
AI² Robotics, a Chinese robotics manufacturer, is reportedly contemplating an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong. This move aims to leverage the increasing interest in the robotics sector, which has been gaining momentum in recent years. The potential IPO is significant as it reflects the g...
AI² Robotics has successfully raised approximately $735 million in a recent funding round, elevating its valuation to around $2.8 billion. The Shenzhen-based company specializes in wheeled humanoid robots, which feature a humanoid torso and five-fingered hands, offering a unique alternative to tradi...
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has unveiled a new open-source robotics model and an extensive training dataset, aimed at enhancing the ability of robots to execute physical tasks in real-world settings. Named MolmoAct 2, this updated system is specifically designed to improve robots' comprehension...
Guo Yandong, the founder of AI² Robotics, recently defended the VLA architecture as essential for advancing embodied intelligence. During a presentation, he introduced the NeuroVLA, a brain-inspired model designed to enhance cognitive processing in robotics. Additionally, Yandong unveiled the AlphaB...
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