#Robotics
Curated coverage on «Robotics»: releases, research, benchmarks, open-source.

HOLI-World Teaches a 4B Model to Understand the World from First-Person Recordings
HOLI-World's authors built an ecosystem of ~100 scenes and ~80K QA pairs so that HOLIWORLD-VL-4B can better understand space and time from egocentric video.

Tsinghua's LoopWAM Tops RoboChallenge Table30 and Goes Open Source
LoopWAM, a world action model from Tsinghua, 原力灵机 and 极寰时代, took first place on the RoboChallenge Table30 benchmark. The code, paper and project page are already…

Wujie Dongli Open-Sources World Model MWA-Phoenix, Claims Top Spot on Six Benchmarks
China's Wujie Dongli has open-sourced MWA-Phoenix, a latent world model. The company claims first place on six benchmarks, from simulation to real robots.

HiSTEVE 1.0 Plays Minecraft With a Mouse and Keyboard: 85.0% on MineStudio Bench

LeWorldModel Tested for Action Sensitivity: Axes Diverge by 36–42°

FocusVLA Teaches a Robot to Pick a Camera Based on Task Stage: +13.3 pp in Real-World Tests

NVIDIA open-sources Flora: robot data labeling 125 times cheaper than GPT-6 Astra

HiP3R assembles 3D scenes from thousands of video frames without retraining models
Researchers at NTU Singapore proposed a hierarchical pose graph: video chunks are first aligned in Sim(3), then each frame gets a single shared SE(3) camera.

Video-Point Model Predicts Multi-Camera Video and 3D Point Trajectories
Video-Point Model predicts future video from any viewpoint, plus 3D trajectories of scene points. Point supervision improves video quality and robot manipulation…

SplatLab writes its own 3D Gaussian Splatting papers and beats baselines by up to +3.78 dB

Survey: Robots Are Learning to Improve Their Own Learning, but Evidence Is Still Missing

SERA teaches a VLM planner to self-evolve: robot scores 51.38% on RoboMME

DONIC teaches one policy to control two hands: 86.79% success without fine-tuning

Huawei openJiuwen connects an LLM to lab equipment for electrocatalysis
Huawei's openJiuwen team and its computing platform team closed the loop: an LLM designs an electrocatalysis experiment, and physical instruments carry it out.

Anhui Bets on Humanoids: A Robotics Park in Hefei and a 15.1 Billion Yuan Project
Hefei has opened a robotics park with 14 companies, and Anhui is now citing 31 humanoid models and a 15.1 billion yuan project. Here is what we know about China's…









