🛫 I’m heading to Pittsburgh for IROS 2026 🤖 9/27–10/2. Introducing 🥂 @saturdayrobotic × #IROS2026#: Saturday Robotics Research Night 📍 Pittsburgh | Sept 28, 5:30–9:30 PM 🎟️ RSVP: Lightning talks from researchers at @Caltech, @RhodaAI , @XSquareRobot, @CAS__Science, @UCBerkeley, and @HarryXu12 (@PokeBot_Global), covering: • humanoid safety + RL • in-context learning for robot data • scalable sim evaluation • 3D VLA + memory + inference-time learning • hindsight reward editing • GPT-6 Astra & the future of robotics The interesting part isn’t just the demos. It’s figuring out what actually scales—and what doesn’t. A few questions to discuss at Saturday Robotics IROS research night: → Is robot scaling really about more data—or better experience per sample? → Can in-context learning turn robot data from static demonstrations into reusable experience? → Will world models become the data engine for robotics? → What should robots remember over long horizons? → And what does scaling not fix—representation, architecture, reward, evaluation? If you’re working on robot foundation models, world models, in-context learning, robot data, sim2real / Real2Sim2Real—or just trying to answer “how do we actually scale robot learning?”—let’s grab coffee ☕️. See you in Pittsburgh. 👋 @aurorafeng_01 @michellelsun

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Inside RoboStrategy $BOT's robotics research with Scott Walter, PhD @GoingBallistic5 Tesla, Figure and the robot hand fight. “If they exist, where are they?” Scott breaks down Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus), Figure (@Figure_robot), 1X (@1X_tech), Wuji (@Wuji_global) and Sharpa Wave (@SharpaRobotics), then goes to the design extremes: a braided hand, up to 120 tendons, and a hydraulic manipulation system built outside the humanoid. “They both have their pros and cons. They both have the big engineering challenges in what they're trying to do.” We cover: › Tesla and Figure's opposing paths through tendons › Why a wrist makes cable routing much harder › @AllonicRobotics, @DaxoRobotics and @TactaSystems at the design extremes › A decathlon for humanoids › Why robot runners may stop looking human › General-purpose bodies and specialized workers TIMESTAMPS 00:00 The labor prize and the 5-year forecast 00:24 The Fermi paradox of robotic hands 01:18 Tesla, Figure and the tendon debate 05:10 Bowden tubes and wrist routing 11:15 Joints, actuators and real control 14:38 Why the pinky matters 17:23 Humanoid Games as engineering experiments 21:57 The humanoid decathlon challenge 26:28 Tesla's abandoned hand iterations 27:55 Wuji and Sharpa Wave 38:29 Three extreme hand designs 38:53 Allonic's braided structure 51:15 Daxo and up to 120 tendons 01:02:36 Tacta's worker data 01:05:18 A hand system outside the humanoid 01:13:12 Data-center cable insertion 01:16:22 General bodies, specialized work 01:19:18 Why this 5-year forecast may be different

Today we’re unveiling Odyssey-3, a big step forward for foundation world models. It can control robots, power humanoids, drive cars (on the roads of India!), train AIs, pilot drones, and even play video games. We can’t wait to see what intelligent systems it enables.