Apple Unveils HALO Humanoid Robot Research Using Unitree G1 Body and Mac mini M4 Pro

Apple's research team has published details on the HALO project, a humanoid robot system that uses a Unitree G1 body powered by a Mac mini M4 Pro running Alibaba's Qwen models. The system demonstrates autonomous capabilities in six unseen real-world environments, achieving an average success rate of 91% across 360 tests for tasks such as sitting and pushing boxes. The project relies on synthetic data generation using motion diffusion models and procedural scene creation to overcome the traditional data bottleneck of teleoperation, rather than collecting human-teleoperated datasets.