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Alibaba's Qwen launches embodied AI suite for robotics

Alibaba's Qwen has launched the Qwen-Robot Suite, a collection of three foundation models designed for embodied intelligence. The suite includes Qwen-RobotNav for navigation, Qwen-RobotManip for physical interaction and manipulation, and Qwen-RobotWorld for simulating physical environments. This integrated toolkit aims to bridge the gap between AI's perception and reasoning capabilities and its ability to perform physical actions in the real world. AI

IMPACT This suite aims to enable AI agents to perform physical actions, bridging the gap between perception and real-world interaction.

RANK_REASON The cluster announces a new suite of foundation models for embodied intelligence from a major AI lab (Alibaba's Qwen).

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Alibaba's Qwen launches embodied AI suite for robotics

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COVERAGE [9]

  1. X — Qwen (Alibaba) TIER_1 English(EN) · Alibaba_Qwen ·

    Qwen-Robot Suite,enable AI from chatbot to physical action in the real world.

    Qwen-Robot Suite,enable AI from chatbot to physical action in the real world. More demos, please visit our blog:https://t.co/irgnrUYvrd https://t.co/hWeXIAC0Wt

  2. X — Qwen (Alibaba) TIER_1 English(EN) · Alibaba_Qwen ·

    Qwen-RobotManip is a generalizable Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model built upon Qwen-VL. It introduces a unified alignment framework across the repr

    Qwen-RobotManip is a generalizable Vision-Language-Action (VLA) foundation model built upon Qwen-VL. It introduces a unified alignment framework across the representation, motion, and behavioral dimensions of manipulation, making large-scale multi-source training coherent rather …

  3. X — Qwen (Alibaba) TIER_1 English(EN) · Alibaba_Qwen ·

    📣 Introducing the Qwen-Robot Suite — Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, Qwen-RobotWorld, three foundation models, a full stack for embodied intelligence.

    📣 Introducing the Qwen-Robot Suite — Qwen-RobotNav, Qwen-RobotManip, Qwen-RobotWorld, three foundation models, a full stack for embodied intelligence. 🧭 Qwen-RobotNav — the gateway to mobility. • Unifies 5 navigation tasks in one model: instruction following, point-goal, https:/…

  4. Qwen tech blog TIER_1 English(EN) · QwenTeam ·

    Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

    TL;DR The Qwen family of foundation models already gives strong perception and reasoning about the physical world. But seeing is not acting: the gap between vision and language understanding and physical control remains the central bottleneck for embodied intelligence. The Qwen-R…

  5. Hacker News — AI stories ≥50 points TIER_1 English(EN) · ilreb ·

    Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

  6. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 한국어(KO) · [email protected] ·

    Qwen (@Alibaba_Qwen) introduces the ability to extend chatbot-level AI to physical actions in the real world through the Qwen-Robot Suite. It guides users to check specific demos on the blog, and strongly promotes the product/model group that integrates robotics, agents, and multimodal control. https

    Qwen (@Alibaba_Qwen) Qwen-Robot Suite를 통해 챗봇 수준의 AI를 현실 세계의 물리적 행동으로 확장할 수 있다고 소개합니다. 구체적 데모는 블로그에서 확인하라고 안내하며, 로보틱스·에이전트·멀티모달 제어를 통합한 제품/모델군 홍보 성격이 강합니다. https:// x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2066 870215070322786 # qwen # robotics # agents # multimodal # ai

  7. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Qwen has released RobotSuite, three embodied AI models for robotics. RobotManip handles manipulation, RobotWorld predicts video from language, and RobotNav gene

    Qwen has released RobotSuite, three embodied AI models for robotics. RobotManip handles manipulation, RobotWorld predicts video from language, and RobotNav generates navigation waypoints. The suite tackles fragmented robotics data across different hardware. https://www. marktechp…

  8. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence https:// qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-robotsuite # ai

    Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence https:// qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-robotsuite # ai

  9. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 (AF) · /u/Snoo_27681 ·

    Qwen Robot Suite

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Looks pretty cool...</p> <p><a href="https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-robotsuite">https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-robotsuite</a></p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> &#32; submitted by &#32; <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Snoo_27681"> /u/Snoo_27681 </a> <br /…