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title: "AlphaSignal Robotics: Manipulation News"
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description: "Latest AI and machine learning news about Manipulation (Robotics) on AlphaSignal."
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# AlphaSignal Robotics: Manipulation News

Latest AI and machine learning news about Manipulation (Robotics) on AlphaSignal.

## Articles

- [Boston Dynamics Gives Atlas a 13-Motion Hand Built for AI Training](https://alphasignal.ai/news/boston-dynamics-gives-atlas-a-13-motion-hand-built-for-ai-training.md) (2026-10-01)
- [Robotic World Models Break Down After Just 10 Planning Steps](https://alphasignal.ai/news/robotic-world-models-break-down-after-just-10-planning-steps.md) (2026-09-30)
- [Microsoft's Rho Cuts Robot Training Data With a 5B Open-Weights Model](https://alphasignal.ai/news/microsoft-s-rho-cuts-robot-training-data-with-a-5b-open-weights-model.md) (2026-09-29)
- [General Intuition Raises $220M to Train Robots on Billions of Gaming Videos](https://alphasignal.ai/news/general-intuition-raises-220m-to-train-robots-on-billions-of-gaming-videos.md) (2026-09-29)
- [Sakana AI's SAIL Triples Robot Success Rates by Searching Before Moving](https://alphasignal.ai/news/sakana-ai-s-sail-triples-robot-success-rates-by-searching-before-moving.md) (2026-09-27)
- [USC and NVIDIA's BCG Trains Humanoid Robots to Run and Fight Without Falls](https://alphasignal.ai/news/usc-and-nvidia-s-bcg-trains-humanoid-robots-to-run-and-fight-without-falls.md) (2026-09-25)
- [Boston Dynamics Opens Atlas Training Facility Inside Hyundai's Georgia Factory](https://alphasignal.ai/news/boston-dynamics-opens-atlas-training-facility-inside-hyundai-s-georgia-factory.md) (2026-09-21)
- [Unitree's Dex5-S Brings a 22-DoF Robotic Hand to Developers for $6,500](https://alphasignal.ai/news/unitree-s-dex5-s-brings-a-22-dof-robotic-hand-to-developers-for-6-500.md) (2026-09-21)
- [Figure's Helix 2.5 Cleans 30 Strangers' Homes It Has Never Seen](https://alphasignal.ai/news/figure-s-helix-2-5-cleans-30-strangers-homes-it-has-never-seen.md) (2026-09-17)
- [Engineer Rebuilds Pollen Robotics' Microduck From Simulator Files Alone](https://alphasignal.ai/news/engineer-rebuilds-pollen-robotics-microduck-from-simulator-files-alone.md) (2026-09-15)
- [ETH Zurich Teaches a Robot Hand to Walk on Its Own Fingertips](https://alphasignal.ai/news/eth-zurich-teaches-a-robot-hand-to-walk-on-its-own-fingertips.md) (2026-09-15)
- [CMU's ModAR Beats a 6B Robot Model Using 200 Times Fewer Parameters](https://alphasignal.ai/news/cmu-s-modar-beats-a-6b-robot-model-using-200-times-fewer-parameters.md) (2026-09-15)
- [Kevin Zakka's mjbatch Runs 4,096 MuJoCo Worlds on CPU Threads at Once](https://alphasignal.ai/news/kevin-zakka-s-mjbatch-runs-4-096-mujoco-worlds-on-cpu-threads-at-once.md) (2026-09-14)
- [Cambridge Researchers' LiteReality-Agent Turns iPhone LiDAR Scans Into Editable 3D Code](https://alphasignal.ai/news/cambridge-researchers-litereality-agent-turns-iphone-lidar-scans-into-editable.md) (2026-09-11)
- [Unitree's UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 Runs 64 Robot Tasks From One Set of Weights](https://alphasignal.ai/news/unitree-s-unifolm-wla-1-0-runs-64-robot-tasks-from-one-set-of-weights.md) (2026-09-10)
- [Pollen Robotics Open-Sources Microduck, a Palm-Sized Robot That Walks and Self-Recovers](https://alphasignal.ai/news/pollen-robotics-open-sources-microduck-a-palm-sized-robot-that-walks-and-self.md) (2026-09-01)
- [AIST Survey Exposes the Hidden Work Behind Robot Foundation Models](https://alphasignal.ai/news/aist-survey-exposes-the-hidden-work-behind-robot-foundation-models.md) (2026-08-19)
- [NVIDIA's Hydra-0 Teaches Any Robot by Watching Human Hands Move](https://alphasignal.ai/news/nvidia-s-hydra-0-teaches-any-robot-by-watching-human-hands-move.md) (2026-08-18)
- [Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 Gives Humanoids Full-Body AI Control](https://alphasignal.ai/news/google-deepmind-s-gemini-robotics-2-gives-humanoids-full-body-ai-control.md) (2026-07-30)
- [Cyberbotics Ships Webots R2025a With Marine Robots and Drops ROS 1](https://alphasignal.ai/news/cyberbotics-ships-webots-r2025a-with-marine-robots-and-drops-ros-1.md) (2026-07-27)
- [Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 Beats Runway Gen-4.5 and Now Runs Factory Robots](https://alphasignal.ai/news/black-forest-labs-flux-3-beats-runway-gen-4-5-and-now-runs-factory-robots.md) (2026-07-23)
- [microagi Raises Germany's Biggest Seed Round to Teach Factory Robots Real Jobs](https://alphasignal.ai/news/microagi-raises-germany-s-biggest-seed-round-to-teach-factory-robots-real-jobs.md) (2026-07-16)
- [Sakana AI's Smart Bricks Recognize Their Own Shape Without Any Central Brain](https://alphasignal.ai/news/sakana-ai-s-smart-bricks-recognize-their-own-shape-without-any-central-brain.md) (2026-07-13)
- [Ant Group's LingBot-VA Teaches Robots to Imagine Before Acting](https://alphasignal.ai/news/ant-group-s-lingbot-va-teaches-robots-to-imagine-before-acting.md) (2026-07-09)
- [Figure AI's Figure 03 Robot Starts Real BMW Factory Work With 99% Accuracy](https://alphasignal.ai/news/figure-ai-s-figure-03-robot-starts-real-bmw-factory-work-with-99-accuracy.md) (2026-06-30)
- [Disney, Google DeepMind, and NVIDIA's Newton Brings GPU-Powered Robot Simulation to Open Source](https://alphasignal.ai/news/disney-google-deepmind-and-nvidia-s-newton-brings-gpu-powered-robot-simulation.md) (2026-06-26)
- [Boston Dynamics Bets $100M on a 323,000-Square-Foot Atlas Factory](https://alphasignal.ai/news/boston-dynamics-bets-100m-on-a-323-000-square-foot-atlas-factory.md) (2026-06-24)
- [Seeed Studio's reBot-DevArm Opens Every Screw and CAD File for Under $1,500](https://alphasignal.ai/news/seeed-studio-s-rebot-devarm-opens-every-screw-and-cad-file-for-under-1-500.md) (2026-06-24)
- [Physical Intelligence and NVIDIA's SC3-Eval Replaces Real Robot Testing With AI](https://alphasignal.ai/news/physical-intelligence-and-nvidia-s-sc3-eval-replaces-real-robot-testing-with-ai.md) (2026-06-18)
- [Anthropic's Opus 4.7 Programs a Robodog 20x Faster Than Humans](https://alphasignal.ai/news/anthropic-s-opus-4-7-programs-a-robodog-20x-faster-than-humans.md) (2026-06-18)
- [Ai2's MolmoMotion Predicts 3D Object Motion Before It Happens, Beating Video AI](https://alphasignal.ai/news/ai2-s-molmomotion-predicts-3d-object-motion-before-it-happens-beating-video-ai.md) (2026-06-17)
- [Alibaba's Qwen Robot Suite Beats π0.5 by 3x on Cross-Embodiment Tasks](https://alphasignal.ai/news/alibaba-s-qwen-robot-suite-beats-0-5-by-3x-on-cross-embodiment-tasks.md) (2026-06-16)
- [Claude Designed a Full Humanoid Robot Using This Open-Source CAD Harness](https://alphasignal.ai/news/claude-designed-a-full-humanoid-robot-using-this-open-source-cad-harness.md) (2026-06-13)
- [Google DeepMind Launches Equity-Free Robotics Accelerator Backed by Gemini Robotics](https://alphasignal.ai/news/google-deepmind-launches-equity-free-robotics-accelerator-backed-by-gemini.md) (2026-06-12)
- [Ant Group's LingBot-VLA Opens 20,000 Hours of Real Robot Training Data](https://alphasignal.ai/news/ant-group-s-lingbot-vla-opens-20-000-hours-of-real-robot-training-data.md) (2026-06-11)
- [Toronto Researchers' TAM Fixes Robot Sim-to-Real Failures Without Retraining Policies](https://alphasignal.ai/news/toronto-researchers-tam-fixes-robot-sim-to-real-failures-without-retraining.md) (2026-06-04)
- [MPCoT Lets Robots Think in Parallel Without Slowing Down](https://alphasignal.ai/news/mpcot-lets-robots-think-in-parallel-without-slowing-down.md) (2026-06-04)
- [iCEM+TL Lets Robots Stack and Slide Objects Without Retraining From Scratch](https://alphasignal.ai/news/icem-tl-lets-robots-stack-and-slide-objects-without-retraining-from-scratch.md) (2026-06-04)
- [One Noise Trick Cuts Robot AI Inference 10x Without Extra Training](https://alphasignal.ai/news/one-noise-trick-cuts-robot-ai-inference-10x-without-extra-training.md) (2026-06-04)
- [KCL's HapTile Teaches Robots to Feel, Boosting Peg Insertion from 0% to 90%](https://alphasignal.ai/news/kcl-s-haptile-teaches-robots-to-feel-boosting-peg-insertion-from-0-to-90.md) (2026-06-03)
- [UIUC's Brick-Composer Teaches AI to Build LEGO Structures, Tripling Assembly Accuracy](https://alphasignal.ai/news/uiuc-s-brick-composer-teaches-ai-to-build-lego-structures-tripling-assembly.md) (2026-06-03)
- [KIT's AI Framework Predicts When Refurbished Power Tools Will Fail](https://alphasignal.ai/news/kit-s-ai-framework-predicts-when-refurbished-power-tools-will-fail.md) (2026-06-03)
- [VISTA Fixes the Two Failures Killing Cheap Robot Training Data](https://alphasignal.ai/news/vista-fixes-the-two-failures-killing-cheap-robot-training-data.md) (2026-06-03)
- [UPenn's PointAction Teaches Robots 3D Geometry, Doubling Zero-Shot Success](https://alphasignal.ai/news/upenn-s-pointaction-teaches-robots-3d-geometry-doubling-zero-shot-success.md) (2026-06-02)
- [University of Antwerp's Robust MPC Shields RL Robots Without Retraining](https://alphasignal.ai/news/university-of-antwerp-s-robust-mpc-shields-rl-robots-without-retraining.md) (2026-06-02)
- [Meta's AI4AnimationPy Cuts Motion Capture Processing from Hours to Minutes](https://alphasignal.ai/news/meta-s-ai4animationpy-cuts-motion-capture-processing-from-hours-to-minutes.md) (2026-06-01)
- [Alibaba's Qwen-VLA Controls Ten Robot Bodies by Swapping a Text Prompt](https://alphasignal.ai/news/alibaba-s-qwen-vla-controls-ten-robot-bodies-by-swapping-a-text-prompt.md) (2026-05-29)
- [Figure AI's Figure 03 Robots Sort 250,000 Packages for JCPenney's Parent](https://alphasignal.ai/news/figure-ai-s-figure-03-robots-sort-250-000-packages-for-jcpenney-s-parent.md) (2026-05-26)
- [Google DeepMind's MuJoCo Menagerie Gives Robotics Researchers 40+ Ready-to-Simulate Robots](https://alphasignal.ai/news/google-deepmind-s-mujoco-menagerie-gives-robotics-researchers-40-ready-to.md) (2026-05-07)
- [RoboVerse Unifies 9 Robot Simulators and 10M Transitions in One Open-Source Framework](https://alphasignal.ai/news/roboverse-unifies-9-robot-simulators-and-10m-transitions-in-one-open-source.md) (2026-05-07)