2025 Robot research explodes

Architectural and training challenges are overcome
Data collection, data quality, recipe validation
With RL support, Figure/Dyna/PI success rate >99% in the field
Self-improvement and self-recovery frameworks mature
VLA fine-tuning approaches, retaining generalists → integrating expertise into generalists
Action segmentation, FAST tagging
Robot actions no longer lag, approaching human speed

Multimodal fusion: vision/speech/touch
Tactile feedback compensates for visual deficits, significant improvement in contact-based tasks
System1/2 reinforcement, long-horizon planning implemented
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 introduces CoT and semantic safety for physical bodies
Memory breakthroughs
NVIDIA ReMEmber for navigational memory
Titans+MIRAS demonstrate stable memory performance during testing

Stronger VLM → more accurate spatial understanding and annotation pipeline
World Model begins used for augmentation and strategy evaluation
In simple terms: scale leads to “physical emergence”
Zero-shot capability, visual and tactile perception, universal physical reasoning

2026: Data scale ×100
True entity intelligence on the table

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