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Feb 21, 2025
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1X unveils NEO Gamma, a quieter home humanoid in a knitted suit, and begins internal home testing

1X Technologies on Feb. 21, 2025 unveiled NEO Gamma, a redesigned version of its NEO home humanoid that the company says is 10 decibels quieter and ten times more reliable than before, wears a seamless knitted nylon suit and walks with a controller learned from human motion capture. The Palo Alto company said the design lets it start internal home testing, but disclosed no price, delivery date or physical specifications.

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Feb 21, 2025
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Figure unveils Helix, its own vision-language-action model that drives a humanoid's entire upper body from two onboard GPUs

Figure AI on 20 February 2025 introduced Helix, a vision-language-action model that pairs a 7-billion-parameter vision-language model running at 7 to 9 Hz with an 80-million-parameter control policy running at 200 Hz across 35 degrees of freedom. Figure says the model was trained on about 500 hours of teleoperation data and runs entirely on two low-power embedded GPUs inside the robot.

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Jan 7, 2025
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NVIDIA opens its Cosmos world models to robot and car makers at CES 2025, with Figure, Agility, XPENG and Uber among the first users

NVIDIA on 6 January 2025 launched Cosmos, a platform of world foundation models, video tokenizers and data-curation tools that generate physics-aware video for training robots and autonomous vehicles, releasing the first models under a licence that permits commercial use. It named 14 robotics and self-driving developers plus Uber as early adopters, and the same day unveiled an Isaac GR00T Blueprint that turns a few human demonstrations into large synthetic motion datasets for humanoids.

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