Play: 10 Robotics Research Breakthroughs of 2026: AI & Humanoid Robots

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#1Psi_0: An Open Foundation Model Towards Universal Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

#2HumDex: Humanoid Dexterous Manipulation Made Easy

#3HandelBot: Real-World Piano Playing via Fast Adaptation of Dexterous Robot Policies

#4SaPaVe: Towards Active Perception and Manipulation in Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotics

#5ComFree-Sim: A GPU-Parallelized Analytical Contact Physics Engine for Scalable Contact-Rich Robotics Simulation and Control

#6O3N: Omnidirectional Open-Vocabulary Occupancy Prediction

#7CRAFT: A Tendon-Driven Hand with Hybrid Hard-Soft Compliance

#8Spatial-TTT: Streaming Visual-based Spatial Intelligence with Test-Time Training

#9Portfolio of Solving Strategies in CEGAR-based Object Packing and Scheduling for Sequential 3D Printing

#10WORKSWORLD: A Domain for Integrated Numeric Planning and Scheduling of Distributed Pipelined Workflows

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