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AI & Motion March 24, 2026

Make Tracking Easy: How NMR Solves the Human-to-Robot Motion Retargeting Problem

A new Neural Motion Retargeting (NMR) framework solves one of humanoid robotics' most stubborn bottlenecks — transferring human motion data to robots without joint jumps and self-collisions. Validated on the Unitree G1.

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Bipedal March 23, 2026

Meet Roadrunner: RAI Institute's Bipedal Wheeled Robot That Thinks in Two Modes

RAI Institute unveils Roadrunner, a 15kg bipedal wheeled robot that switches between side-by-side and in-line wheel configurations, with symmetric legs that flip knees forward or backward — all controlled by a single RL policy, zero-shot.

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AI & Motion March 23, 2026

CRISP: How Humanoid Robots Are Learning to Criticize and Refine Their Own Social Behavior

Researchers from KwangWoon University and ETRI unveil CRISP — a framework where a VLM acts as a "social critic" inside humanoid robots, autonomously generating and refining natural social behaviors. Accepted to ICRA 2026.

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Companies March 21, 2026

RoboForce Raises $2M to Deploy TITAN — a 210cm Industrial Humanoid Robot

RoboForce secures $2M in an oversubscribed round backed by YZi Labs, Jerry Yang, and Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes to scale TITAN — a 210cm humanoid built for solar farms, data centers, and mining.

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AI & Motion March 20, 2026

Humanoid Robot Learns to Play Tennis Using Imperfect Human Motion Data

Chinese researchers developed LATENT, teaching a Unitree G1 humanoid to play tennis from just 5 hours of amateur motion capture data using reinforcement learning — no perfect demos required.

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Industry News March 19, 2026

NVIDIA Bets Big on Humanoids: Physical AI Takes Center Stage at GTC 2026

At GTC 2026, NVIDIA unveiled sweeping partnerships with 110+ robotics companies and new Isaac simulation frameworks, positioning itself as the backbone of the humanoid robot revolution.

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Humanoids March 18, 2026

Atlas Evolved: Boston Dynamics' Humanoid Robot in 2026

Boston Dynamics' Atlas has undergone a radical transformation — fully electric, hydraulic-free, and capable of manipulation tasks that once seemed decades away.

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