China Mobile just open-sourced a bridge between Physical AI models and humanoid robots.
China Mobile has released Open-RAIL, an open-source real-time execution layer for VLA and World Action Models .
It tackles a practical problem in humanoid robots:
The Physical AI model thinks in action chunks, while the robot body needs fast, continuous motion.
Open-RAIL sits in between:
VLA / WAM<->Open-RAIL <-> Humanoid Robot
It handles asynchronous inference, temporal alignment, and trajectory smoothing, turning low-frequency model outputs into smoother, high-frequency motion.
The project says it supports 20+ VLA/WAM models and 4 types of humanoid robots(Unitree G1/AgiBot G1/China Mobile Lingxi/NAVIAI-WA2), with tools for real-robot data collection and human intervention.
In real-robot testing, Open-RAIL achieved up to 2.09× faster task execution while reducing motion jitter.
Think of it as a real-time execution layer connecting robot AI models to humanoid robot bodies, making it easier to move different models across different humanoid robots.
Sep 23, 2026 · 2:37 PM UTC
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Open‑RAIL: The Infrastructure Bridging Diverse VLA/WAM Brains and Heterogeneous Robot Bodies
cmcc-tao.github.io/open-rail…
->tech paper arxiv.org/abs/2512.24673
->code github.com/CMCC-TAO/open-rai…
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