Brief

A Tsinghua-affiliated robotics company, Stellar Motion Era, has achieved the top position in the RoboChallenge, a global benchmark for embodied AI. Their self-developed embodied model, Era0, demonstrated superior performance across 30 real-world tasks, showcasing advanced capabilities in perception, planning, and control. Era0's success is attributed to a novel approach that deeply integrates Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models with world models, enabling more robust and adaptable physical task execution. AI

Physical Intelligence (Pi) is developing a general-purpose robotic intelligence system using a Visual-Language-Action (VLA) model for real-time control. To enable rapid experimentation and the use of larger models, Pi utilizes Modal's cloud infrastructure for remote inference. They collaborated with Modal to create a specialized QUIC-based transport over UDP, minimizing network latency to approximately 10-15ms and avoiding the potential for TCP-related stalls in the robot's control loop. AI