This week’s Paper Club is all about robotics. Every year for the last decade, someone has promised that the era of robotics is just around the corner. But we’re still waiting.
So we gathered a bunch of the top researchers working in AI and robotics to present the latest findings on where we are and what comes next.
Thanks to the following presenters:
0:00 – @FrancoisChauba1: Ten years of “next year, robotics is solved”
7:59 – @marceltornev: MEM - Multi-Scale Embodied Memory for Vision Language Action Models (arxiv.org/abs/2603.03596)
20:21 – Milan Ganai: Self-Supervised Bootstrapping of Action-Predictive Embodied Reasoning (arxiv.org/abs/2602.08167)
33:42 – @tylerlum23: SimToolReal - An Object-Centric Policy for Zero-Shot Dexterous Tool Manipulation (arxiv.org/abs/2602.16863)
51:21 – @NikolausWest: Why the next great robotics companies will start with teleoperation
1:08:30 – @BillJiao930 & @Guanming717: World action models and what comes after VLAs
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