The latest in robotics, explained clearly — for builders and the curious.
After launching S1 — a robotics foundation model that copies a single video demo without fine-tuning — Skild showed Physical Self-Play: the same base policy trained against itself in Isaac Sim, then transferred to a humanoid.
Figure says its humanoid tidied rooms, folded towels and made beds in 30 unseen Bay Area homes with zero local data, backed by a $3.5B compute deal with Nscale.
PSYONIC and Universal Robots integrated the six-motor, 30-sensor Ability Hand with UR's new g-Series arms and PolyScope X, programmable from the teach pendant.
The Austin humanoid firm expanded its ~90,000 sq ft training hub and wheeled/bipedal Apollo 2 platforms with Google DeepMind, Mercedes-Benz and GXO sites feeding the commercial Apollo 3.