Hacker News with Generative AI: Humanoid Robots

Robotics Meets Runway: Unitree G1's Catwalk Debut at SHFW (chinaminutes.com)
Unitree G1, a humanoid robot, made its stunning debut at Shanghai Fashion Week, walking the runway alongside human models.
Boston Dynamics shows off another major leap in humanoid mobility (newatlas.com)
Chinese humanoids are starting to move with extraordinary grace and agility, but Boston Dynamics is the OG in this field, and fresh video of its swivel-jointed Atlas robot running, cartwheeling and breakdancing shows it's still at the bleeding edge.
Robotics China's Electric-Vehicle-to-Humanoid-Robot Pivot (technologyreview.com)
Here’s what the country’s big bet on robots might mean for the rest of the globe.
Meet Bex, Kawasaki's Rideable Robot Goat (2022) (cycleworld.com)
This goat prances or lets you ride, showing Kawi’s focus on humanoid development.
Advanced Expressive Humanoid Whole-Body Control (exbody2.github.io)
This paper enables real-world humanoid robots to maintain stability while performing expressive motions like humans do.
AgiBot X1, a modular humanoid robot with high dof (github.com/AgibotTech)
AgiBot X1 is a modular humanoid robot with high dof developed and open-sourced by AgiBot. It is built upon AgiBot's open-source framework AimRT as middleware and using reinforcement learning for locomotion control.
Unitree G1 Humanoid Agent (unitree.com)
New Boston Dynamics humanoid robot [video] (youtube.com)