Claims of record-shattering feats by robot “athletes” at this year’s World Humanoid Robot Games in China have circulated widely, even as key facts about the competition, the participants, and the supposed achievements remain undisclosed in the official reporting. Excitement over so-called robot athletes breaking records, some even said to rival human speedsters like Usain Bolt, […] The post Records fall at China’s World Humanoid Robot Games, but event details remain undisclosed appeared first on American Almanac .
Claims of record-shattering feats by robot “athletes” at this year’s World Humanoid Robot Games in China have circulated widely, even as key facts about the competition, the participants, and the supposed achievements remain undisclosed in the official reporting. Excitement over so-called robot athletes breaking records, some even said to rival human speedsters like Usain Bolt, has made headlines, with reports highlighting a futuristic spectacle set in China. Yet, despite the attention, basic details about the event, the names of the robots, their manufacturers, the nature of the records, and the timing and location of the games, have not been made public in the available coverage. The absence of these facts leaves a gap between…Open
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Nvidia unveiled Cosmos 3, an open AI world model designed to help robots, autonomous vehicles and other physical systems better understand and predict real-world environments. Why it matters: Nvidia is continuing its move beyond chips into AI models and software, positioning itself to become a foundational platform for physical AI development. Driving the news: Nvidia says it trained Cosmos 3 on 20 trillion tokens of multimodal data, including nearly a billion images, 400 million real and synthetic videos, ambient audio, text and action data from humans and robots. - That action data is what makes Cosmos different from a regular video generator. It's meant to model how machines move, not just how scenes look, Ming-Yu Liu, VP of Nvidia's…
