Humanoids Latest coverage

Welcome to Robot Park: Where Apptronik’s Apollo Goes to Work Training the Next Generation of Humanoid Robot Intelligence

Apptronik announced the opening of its expanded Robot Park in Austin, Texas, and the launch of Apollo 2, a modular humanoid robot platform. The facility and robot are part of a global network, enabling real-world data collection and training for embodied AI models. Apollo 2 supports both bipedal and wheeled configurations, with data used to refine Gemini Robotics models for commercial deployment.

Unitree@UnitreeRobotics· 13:10SignalEditorial score7272

Unitree says it supports BitRobot in open-sourcing HIW-500, a humanoid teleoperation dataset collected across 12 real homes in Southeast Asia. The quoted announcement reports 500+ hours, 23K+ episodes, 10+ TB and more than 10 household tasks. The post does not specify the time basis or license, or link to a downloadable artifact.

Can football teach a robot to move?

Boston Dynamics explores how football can inform robot movement by using human demonstrations and reinforcement learning to train Atlas to perform a complex 'Ghost Rabona' kick, highlighting the intersection of sports and robotics in developing dynamic, whole-body control.