Global First! Hangzhou's Embodied Robot Rivals Figure, Demonstrates Full-Body Autonomous Clothing Folding

The article describes how the WR1 robot, developed by West Lake Robotics, successfully performs complex household tasks such as folding clothes and managing multi-scene operations. It highlights the use of a dual pre-training system, world models, and a general-purpose action execution model to achieve seamless coordination between perception, planning, and execution. The robot's ability to handle flexible objects and maintain task continuity across different environments is emphasized as a significant breakthrough in embodied AI.