AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100
The AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series is a line of embedded x86 system-on-chip processors announced by AMD on 2026-07-23 at the company's Advancing AI 2026 conference in San Francisco, aimed at robotics…
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ASPIRE (robotics)
ASPIRE (paper title "ASPIRE: Agentic /Skills Discovery for Robotics"; the paper expands the acronym as Agentic Skill Programming through Iterative Robot Exploration) is a continual learning system for robot…
AgiBot A3
AgiBot A3, also marketed in China as Zhiyuan Expedition A3, is a full-size bipedal humanoid robot from AgiBot.
AgiBot World 2026
AgiBot World 2026 (styled AGIBOT WORLD 2026 by its publisher) is a real-world robot manipulation dataset released in stages during 2026 by the Chinese robotics company AgiBot.
Behavioral Cloning
Behavioral cloning is the approach to imitation learning that reduces control to a supervised learning problem.
Bionic hand
A bionic hand is a powered artificial hand, usually controlled by the electrical signals of the wearer's own muscles, that restores grasping function to a person who has lost a hand or was born without one.
Cognitive robotics
Cognitive robotics is the subfield of robotics and artificial intelligence concerned with endowing robots with higher-level cognitive capabilities: perception, attention, memory, reasoning, knowledge…
Config (company)
Config (legally Config Intelligence) is a robotics data startup that builds the data layer for robot foundation models, positioning itself as a neutral data supplier rather than a robot maker.
Cost of transport
Cost of transport (COT), also called specific cost of transport, specific resistance, or the dimensionless cost of transport, is the standard measure of how much energy a moving body spends to travel.
Dexterous hand
A dexterous hand (also called a dexterous robotic hand or multi-fingered robot hand) is an anthropomorphic end effector that reproduces the grasping, in-hand manipulation, and tactile perception of the human…
Droidlet
Droidlet is an open-source platform from Facebook AI Research (now Meta AI) for building embodied AI agents.
Dyna Robotics
Dyna Robotics (styled DYNA Robotics in its own materials) is an American embodied-AI and robotics startup, founded in 2024 and based in Redwood City, California, that builds robot foundation models for…
Dyna-2.1
Dyna-2.1 (styled DYNA 2.1 in the company's press release) is a robot system announced by Dyna Robotics on 29 September 2026.
Edward Johns
Edward David Johns is a British robotics researcher who is Professor of Robot Learning in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where he directs the Robot Learning Lab, and co-founder and CEO…
EyeRobot
EyeRobot is a line of robot-learning research from the University of California, Berkeley that gives a manipulator robot an actively controlled "eye" and trains it to look where looking helps the arm act.
FOMO-Dex
FOMO-Dex (short for Force-Modulated Dexterity) is a robot control method for contact-rich dexterous manipulation.
Field AI
Field AI (also written FieldAI) is an American robotics software company based in Irvine, California, that develops foundation models specifically designed for autonomous robots operating in outdoor and…
Galbot
Galbot (Chinese: 银河通用机器人, also known as Galaxy General Robotics or Galaxy General) is a Chinese embodied AI and general-purpose robotics company headquartered in Haidian District, Beijing.
Galbot ET1
Galbot ET1 is a small bipedal humanoid robot made by the Chinese robotics company Galbot.
Gemini Robotics 2
Gemini Robotics 2 is a family of three robotics models announced by Google DeepMind on July 30, 2026: a vision-language-action (VLA) model of the same name, an embodied reasoning model called Gemini Robotics…
Generalist AI
Generalist AI (branded Generalist, legally Generalist AI, Inc.) is an American artificial intelligence company building general-purpose foundation models for robots and other physical systems.
Generalist GEN-1
GEN-1 is an embodied robot foundation model and control system developed by Generalist AI.
Generalist GEN-1.5
Generalist GEN-1.5 is a proprietary robot foundation model announced by Generalist AI on August 19, 2026.
Genesis AI (company)
Genesis AI is a robotics company building a general-purpose robot foundation model, the dexterous hardware the model runs on, and the simulation software used to develop it.
Helix (Figure AI)
Helix is a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for generalist humanoid control, developed in-house by Figure AI, the Sunnyvale, California humanoid-robot company founded by Brett Adcock.
Helix (VLA model)
Helix is a vision-language-action model (VLA) developed by Figure AI that controls humanoid robots by mapping camera images and natural language commands directly to continuous control.
Humanoid Robot
"Humanoid" redirects here. For the London-based robotics company, see Humanoid (company).
I3L (Iterative Interactive Imitation Learning)
I3L (Iterative Interactive Imitation Learning) is a robot learning system from researchers at Stanford University and Lambda Inc. that improves whole-body mobile manipulation policies by letting a human…
Index (Figure AI)
Index is a proprietary data-collection program and mobile application operated by Figure AI.
Jim Fan
Linxi "Jim" Fan is an artificial intelligence researcher at NVIDIA, where he co-leads the Generalist Embodied Agent Research (GEAR) group with Yuke Zhu.
Large Behavior Model
A Large Behavior Model (LBM) is a single neural network for robotics that is pretrained on large, diverse datasets of robot demonstrations and outputs robot actions
LeRobot
LeRobot is an open-source, PyTorch-native library for end-to-end real-world robot learning developed by Hugging Face and a global community of contributors, often described as the "Transformers for robotics"…
Light-O1
Light-O1 is a whole-body foundation model for humanoid robots developed by Light Origins (Chinese: 亮源新创), an embodied AI company with teams in Beijing, Shenzhen and Singapore.
Lumo-2
Lumo-2 is a 4B-scale robot-learning model developed by Astribot. Astribot describes it as a latent world-action model: instead of rendering a future video before acting, it predicts an action-relevant…
Matic
Matic is a camera-based robot vacuum and mop made by Matic Robots, Inc., a robotics company in Mountain View, California.
Mimic Robotics
Mimic Robotics is a Swiss robotics company that develops dexterous robot hands, human demonstration equipment, control software, and learned manipulation policies for industrial work.
MimicGen
MimicGen is a data generation system developed by researchers at NVIDIA's Seattle Robotics Lab and Learning and Perception Research group that automatically produces large-scale robot manipulation datasets…
Mobile ALOHA
Mobile ALOHA is an open-source, low-cost system for collecting bimanual mobile manipulation data and learning household tasks from it, developed at Stanford University by Zipeng Fu, Tony Z. Zhao
MonoRace
MonoRace is an onboard perception and control system for autonomous racing drones, developed at the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab) of Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands.
Mundane Systems
Mundane Systems Inc. (styled mundane) is an American robotics startup based in Palo Alto, California, that builds teleoperated robots for hazardous skilled-trades work, starting with energized electrical work.
NVIDIA COMPASS
NVIDIA COMPASS is a framework and trained model for cross-embodiment robot navigation. Its name expands to Cross-Embodiment Mobility Policy via Residual RL and Skill Synthesis.
NVIDIA Cosmos
NVIDIA Cosmos is a world foundation model platform developed by NVIDIA for physical AI applications, including autonomous vehicles and robotics.
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7
NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.7 is a 3-billion-parameter, cross-embodiment vision-language-action model developed by NVIDIA for humanoid and manipulation robots.
NVIDIA Newton
Newton is an open-source, GPU-accelerated physics engine built for robotics simulation and robot learning, co-developed by NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Disney Research and stewarded by the Linux Foundation.
NexArm
NexArm is a desktop robotic arm sold by Hiwonder, a Shenzhen-based maker of educational robotics kits, for imitation-learning, teleoperation and embodied-AI coursework.
OM-1 (Omnibody Model 1)
OM-1, short for Omnibody Model 1, is a general-purpose robot manipulation policy announced by Reward AI on 14 September 2026.
Octo (Robot Policy)
Octo is an open-source generalist robot policy for manipulation. It uses a transformer and a diffusion action decoder to turn camera observations and a task description into robot actions.
Odyssey-3
Odyssey-3 is a foundation world model announced on September 15, 2026 by Odyssey, an AI lab founded in 2023 by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke.
OpenAI Robotics
OpenAI Robotics is the robotics research and hardware group at OpenAI. OpenAI has worked on robots in two separate periods.
OpenArm
OpenArm is an open-source, seven-degree-of-freedom humanoid robot arm developed by Enactic, Inc., a Tokyo robotics company.
Physical AI
Physical AI is a contested umbrella term for artificial intelligence systems whose decisions are coupled to sensing and action in the physical world.
Physical Intelligence
Physical Intelligence (also known as Pi or π) is an American artificial intelligence robotics company that builds general-purpose foundation models and learning algorithms designed to control any robot for any…
RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model)
RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1) is an 8 billion parameter multimodal transformer for robotic manipulation announced by Covariant on March 11, 2024 at the MODEX 2024 trade show in Atlanta.
Reward AI
Reward AI is a robotics company that builds general-purpose manipulation policies meant to run on many different robot bodies. The company gives its location as the Bay Area, California, on its X account.
Rhoda AI
Rhoda AI (also called Rhoda) is an American robotics company that builds robot foundation models pre-trained mainly on internet video, along with its own robot hardware for factory and warehouse work.
RoboArena
RoboArena is a distributed, real-world benchmark for generalist robot policies in which volunteer evaluators at different laboratories run double-blind, pairwise (A/B) comparisons of policies on tasks and…
RoboCasa
RoboCasa is a large-scale simulation framework for training generalist robots to perform everyday household tasks.
RoboCat
RoboCat is a self-improving foundation agent for robotic manipulation developed by Google DeepMind.
RoboChallenge
RoboChallenge is an online benchmarking platform that evaluates robot control policies, mainly vision-language-action models (VLAs), on physical robots instead of in simulation.
RoboDojo
RoboDojo is a benchmark for generalist robot manipulation policies that combines a simulation suite of 42 tasks with a real-robot suite of 18 tasks, a standardized physical test platform called…