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  <updated>2026-07-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Robot Policies Need the Right Memory, Not an 8K Context Window</title>
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    <updated>2026-07-29T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>RoboTTT, WAM-TTT, and RoboSSM show that long context matters only when history becomes usable state—through task-relevant information, aligned meta-training, and memory matched to its timescale.</summary>
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    <title>How We Won IEEE ICRA Robotics Challenges Two Years in a Row</title>
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    <updated>2026-07-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>Lessons from winning ICRA navigation and manipulation challenges: start from the problem, decompose it from first principles, and test the assumptions that matter.</summary>
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    <title>OpenGEN-1: Reconstructing GEN-1 from First Principles</title>
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    <updated>2026-07-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>A first-principles reconstruction of GEN-1 as a physical foundation model trained on streams of interaction, with a proposed architecture, objective, data scale, and real-time inference system.</summary>
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    <title>VLA Is Not Dead—At Least Not Yet</title>
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    <updated>2026-07-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>DreamZero and WAM split robot policy learning into future-video prediction and inverse dynamics—opening a powerful path beyond VLA, but at a steep deployment cost.</summary>
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    <title>Pi 0.6: Supervised Learning in RL's Clothing</title>
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    <updated>2026-03-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>How RECAP reveals that modern RL post-training is fundamentally supervised learning guided by value-based preference signals and environment interaction.</summary>
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    <title>CFGRL: The Theory Behind pi0.6*</title>
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    <updated>2026-03-14T00:00:00Z</updated>
    <summary>How CFGRL reframes RL policy improvement as optimality-conditioned inference, then implements it via classifier-free guidance at sampling time.</summary>
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