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1/ Better robot models come from better data.
That takes two things: hardware that captures it fully, and tooling that turns it into training signal.
We built the first. Today, @GroundedSI launches the second: Grounded API. Access both hardware + API ↓
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1/ Nobody has benchmarked a humanoid on autonomous IKEA furniture assembly before.
Today at @ieeeiros 2026, the first attempts begin.
It’s a test of autonomous loco-manipulation: long-horizon sequencing, precise coordination, contact, force, recovery, and movement ↓
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6/ @LightwheelAI also built the challenge environment in NVIDIA Isaac Sim, recreating the G1, UTTER part physics, and venue scene with matched lighting.
Policies are evaluated against the same five checkpoints in sim before they touch the physical robot.
Teams also had remote access to G1 hardware in Singapore and Shenzhen before Pittsburgh, creating a path from dataset → simulation → real hardware.
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7/ Co-organized by @BitRobotNetwork, @LightwheelAI and
@singaporetech.
Challenge details: humanoid-ikea-assembly-chall…
First runs at IROS 2026 has been completed. Stay tuned for leaderboard updates from the competitions at @ieeeiros.
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BitRobot 🦾 retweeted
Bro is praying the kids wont mess with the robot while he's running his policy.
This is why Earth Rover Challenge is still my favorite competition (at a robotic conference)
You never know what u gonna get cos the bots are truly in the wild (in this case the bots in Costa Rica)
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Starting next week, the Earth Rover Grand Challenges will be at @ieeeiros IROS 2026
11 teams will test their navigation policies in 4 tracks ranging from city to indoor / off-terrain to marathon (50 miles of sidewalks, overpasses and bike paths)
Let the competitions begin 🦾
Nobody has driven a mini rover from UC Berkeley to Stanford on its own.
Humans have done it by remote control, navigating 50 miles in 29 hours and 38 minutes.
That's the benchmark to beat at the Earth Rover Challenge co-organized by @BitRobotNetwork at @ieeeiros IROS 2026 ↓
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BitRobot 🦾 retweeted
Packed room at our office launch last Friday!
Builders from Physical Intelligence, Google DeepMind, Tesla, Anthropic, Dyna + beyond explored the full human data stack we’re building, from capture hardware to enrichment to training-ready outputs.
GSI was built to plug easily into the training flows teams already use.
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Excited to co-organize the Origami Grand Challenge with @SharpaRobotics at @ieeeras IROS next week.
Sharpa builds advanced dexterous robotic hands and embodied AI models.
Over a dozen teams will put their policies to the test by autonomously folding a paper airplane.
Sharpa will be co-hosting two competitions at IROS 2026.
Powered by Sharpa's robot platforms and software, the 2nd ROCO and Origami challenges (cohosted by @BitRobotNetwork) brought together 48 teams from leading institutions around the world—including Carnegie Mellon University, UC Berkeley, KAIST and NUS.
Across both competitions, teams will put robotic manipulation and dexterity to the test on Sharpa hardware through challenging real-world tasks.
Follow the challenges for more:
ROCO: @NtuLab38456
Origami: robotic-origami-challenge.gi…
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Next week, we’re heading to @ieee_ras_icra IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh with 50+ research teams pushing the frontier in 3 Grand Challenges:
> Autonomous navigation w/ Earth Rover
> Dexterity thru origami folding
> Loco-manipulation thru Ikea assembly
Excited to organize this w/ partners like @SharpaRobotics @LightwheelAI @UnitreeRobotics and more.
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Claim expires 11:59PM ET, Sept 21 (3:59 AM UTC on September 22).
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Sign into the Lab, click Profile and connect. Share your IDs below!
Reminder: if you signed up w/ email during our App launch countdown, final day to claim the Day 1 badge is Mon Sept 21, 11:59PM ET
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BitRobot 🦾 retweeted
Looks like our @frodobots Earth Rover Mini got an intelligence upgrade from Muse!
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BitRobot 🦾 retweeted
We’re building human-centric robotics from the data layer up, the missing piece for generalist robots.
RoboCap + Grounded API turn raw human action into metric 3D labels ready for training.
The hardware and the tooling have always been fragmented. We built them as one stack ↓
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Earth Rover Mini+ spotted in-the-wild with @Meta Muse on board, building its own perception-to-action stack 🤯
Muse was told to find a black ball. So it installed PyTorch + Depth Anything itself, estimated the distance, then drove the rover.
Agentic robotics is getting real.
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Awesome experimenting from @hrhraj, check out the original video here:
Meta's @Muse just drove my robot. I asked, that's it. 🤯
Distance was tricky with only a 2D camera so Muse installed PyTorch + Depth Anything V2 in its own VM, estimated the distance, sanity-checked its own number, then drove there.
An AI agent installing its own tools to act in the physical world. Nice work @AIatMeta 👏
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BitRobot 🦾 retweeted
Great way to scale real world data for humanoid robotics
The only way that LLM scaling laws apply is if there is enough data, and this is how you solve the data bottleneck
Congratulations @micoolcho and team!!
1/ Better robot models come from better data.
That takes two things: hardware that captures it fully, and tooling that turns it into training signal.
We built the first. Today, @GroundedSI launches the second: Grounded API. Access both hardware + API ↓
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