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Motus2: Self-Evolving World Model for Dexterous Manipulation Unveiled

Researchers have introduced Motus2, a novel self-evolving general world model designed for dexterous manipulation tasks. This model integrates perception, prediction, action, evaluation, and improvement into a unified system. Motus2 advances world modeling through both model and data scaling, featuring a single model with shared weights that exposes policy, simulator, and evaluator interfaces for a closed decision-and-learning loop. The system leverages expert demonstrations for action learning and suboptimal interactions for dynamics and value learning, incorporating stereo vision, tactile feedback, and biomimetic hardware. AI

IMPACT This research could advance the development of more capable embodied AI agents for complex manipulation tasks.

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Motus2: Self-Evolving World Model for Dexterous Manipulation Unveiled

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Hongzhe Bi, Zihao Zhou, Yihang Tang, Jingrui Pang, Shuhe Huang, Haitian Liu, Runqing Wang, Shuai Huang, Yichen Wang, Yiming Cheng, Ruowen Zhao, Zhenghua Li, Hengkai Tan, Xiaolong Liu, Jinhui Wan, Jiabao Liu, Min Zhao, Fan Bao, Jun Zhu ·

    Motus2: A Self-Evolving General World Model for Dexterous Manipulation

    arXiv:2608.30237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: General embodied agents should perceive, predict, act, evaluate, and improve within a unified system. World models have shown great promise in building such agents, yet existing models typically append an action output head to a w…