MeckaAI announced a $60 million Series B round led by Sequoia. The new capital brings total funding to over $120 million. The company says it will use the money to become the data and deployment layer for physical AI.
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Funding: $60 million Series B from Sequoia.
Total capital: over $120 million accumulated.
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Workhorse framework for humanoid robot locomanipulation announced
Workhorse is a framework that lets humanoid robots learn whole‑body locomanipulation directly from human data. It was introduced by Songbo Hu and researchers from UC Berkeley and Stanford. The framework bypasses the need for robot teleoperation or physical robot demonstrations.
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Workhorse enables learning whole‑body locomanipulation from human data.
It bypasses the need for robot teleoperation, physical robot demonstrations, or.
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Workhorse robot demonstrates 5‑minute continuous box‑sorting run
Workhorse robot tackles long‑horizon task execution without degrading over time. In a single 5‑minute unedited take it completed multistep box sorting. It reported zero cuts, zero pauses, and zero manual resets. It adapts dynamically when objects move or obstacles block.
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Continuous run: 5‑minute unedited take completed multistep box sorting.
No interruptions: zero cuts, zero pauses, zero manual resets.
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Workhorse learns whole-body humanoid loco-manipulation from human demos
Workhorse is a system that learns contact-rich whole-body manipulation for a Unitree G1 robot from robot‑free human demonstrations. A visual planner predicts torso, wrist, and foot poses; a reinforcement‑learning tracker follows these targets on the robot. On the real G1 the robot sorts boxes, catches a thrown box, and climbs a suitcase, achieving 77% success on box sorting and 64% under 40 N·s pushes.
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Visual planner predicts five-link targets: torso, both wrists, and both feet.
Success rate on box sorting without pushes: G1 77%, H2 83%; with 40 N·s pushes G1 64%.
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- Original post
- Workhorse: Learning Robust Whole-Body Humanoid Loco-Manipulation from Human Data - Linked page
- Linked resource - Linked in the post
Claude Opus 5.5 PCB arrives from JLCPCB with INA226 monitoring
Claude Opus 5.5 designed a PCB that has just been received from JLCPCB. The board includes an INA226 i2c power monitor, 10 A fuses and hot‑swappable batteries.
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Design: First PCB fully designed by Claude Opus 5.5.
Features: INA226 power monitoring, 10 A fuses, hot‑swappable batteries.
