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All humanoid foundation-model news curated by the humanoid.guide desk — world models, VLAs, training data and compute, with sources linked on every story.
← Back to the reportTeleop datasets are over 100,000 times smaller than what trains today's language models, Nikita Rudin argues — and reinforcement learning, not an endless stream of human demonstrations, is the way out.
Image © Agility Robotics — The Digit maker's new Fremont center will focus on training, testing and advancing the AI that teaches its humanoid new skills, according to Agility — with nearly 200 AI and field-operations hires planned and more than $300 million in multi-year Digit orders behind the expansion.
Image © LimX Dynamics — The freshly funded Shenzhen maker's three-layer 'agentic OS' pairs a world model and closed-loop reasoning with VLA skills — enough, according to LimX, for China's first fully autonomous long-horizon home run by a full-size humanoid.
Image © Humanoid Guide — NVIDIA's AI director told RAISE Week in Paris that humanoid prices have fallen 98% in two decades and open GR00T downloads have passed 10 million, according to Fan — with 'world action models' that predict future frames as the next paradigm.
Image © 1X Technologies — The NEO maker's new research organization, headed by ex-Luma researcher Samarth Sinha, will pretrain on web media, human video, simulation and robot data — world models, says CEO Bernt Børnich, will free humanoids from narrow tasks in static environments.