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HKU Team's PhysicalRSI 1.0 Tops RoboDojo Benchmark at 1% of GPT-6 Astra's Cost - RobotHOT

HKU Team's PhysicalRSI 1.0 Tops RoboDojo Benchmark at 1% of GPT-6 Astra's Cost

A research team at the University of Hong Kong’s MMLab has proposed a simple and efficient self-evolving embodied AI baseline, PhysicalRSI 1.0, which ranked first on the RoboDojo benchmark with a 31.38% average task success rate at roughly 1% of the token cost of GPT-6 Astra, the team said. PhysicalRSI 1.0, short for Physical Recursive Self-Improvement, achieved a 36.27 score and 31.38% success rate under a unified five-category evaluation, compared with GPT-6 Astra’s 28.86 score and 22.21% success rate. The result represents a 39.6% relative improvement in success rate over Astra at a fraction of the cost. Astra reportedly consumes about 200,000 yuan in tokens for a full RoboDojo test run. The system uses a “System 1–2 Co-Evolution” framework in...

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  • Shanghai Logistics Robotics Startup Yincheng Intelligent Raises Nearly 100 Million Yuan in Series A

    Shanghai-based Yincheng Intelligent, which develops and applies embodied intelligence for the logistics sector, said it has completed a Series A funding round of nearly 100 million yuan. The round was co-led by Huamin Investment and Shanghai Semiconductor Industry Investment, with existing shareholder Detong Capital increasing its investment, the company said. Separately, Yincheng Intelligent said it has secured a hundred-million-yuan-scale order from SF Express. Its robots will first be deployed in the parcel feeding process at express transfer centers, with plans to deploy thousands of units over the next two years.

  • China's Paxini AI Completes IPO Coaching Filing, CSRC Website Shows

    Paxini AI Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. has completed IPO coaching filing registration with the Beijing branch of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the CSRC website showed. Founded in 2021, Paxini focuses on embodied perception. Its main products include full-body force sensing kits, tactile dexterous hands, tactile humanoid robots, a full-modal embodied intelligence data ecosystem and the Feelix tactile simulation platform.

  • China's ForgeAI Raises Tens of Millions of Yuan in Angel Round to Build General-Purpose Robot Brain

    Chinese robotics startup ForgeAI said it has completed an angel funding round in the tens of millions of yuan, with investors including TusStar Venture Capital. The company said the proceeds will mainly fund core technology research and development and the expansion of its R&D team. It will also accelerate validation and commercialization of key technologies in typical scenarios.

  • Enact Intelligence Raises $30M Pre-Seed for Force-and-Touch Robot Dexterity

    Physical AI startup Enact Intelligence emerged from stealth on October 22, 2026, announcing $30 million in pre-seed funding to advance its force-and-touch approach to robotic dexterity. The Zurich-based company is building robots that can sense force and touch in addition to seeing their surroundings.

  • Beijing embodied-AI data startup Astralive raises tens of millions of yuan in seed funding

    Beijing-based embodied intelligence data infrastructure company Astralive said it has completed a seed round and a seed-plus round, raising tens of millions of yuan in total. The seed round was led by Shunxi Fund, while the seed-plus round was led by industrial investor Luster LightTech, with Zhongguancun Capital and Yichuang Investment participating, the company said. Proceeds will mainly fund core algorithm and product research and development, the construction of real-world multimodal data infrastructure, and improvements in customer delivery and commercialization capabilities.

  • ByteDance's Seed Model team posts robotics jobs from hardware design to data evaluation

    ByteDance's Seed Model team has posted a batch of robotics-related positions on the company's website and recruitment platform BOSS Zhipin, covering robot body design, core components, low-level control, application software and data evaluation, according to the listings. One listing for a mass-production hardware product manager explicitly calls for pushing prototypes from "running a demo" to "stable delivery," the postings showed. Engineers recruited by the Seed team were generally offered 15 months' pay at more than 20,000 yuan ($2,800) a month on BOSS Zhipin.

  • Hangzhou Embodied AI Startup Sivy Perception Completes Angel Round

    Sivy Perception, a Hangzhou-based embodied intelligence technology company, said it has completed an angel funding round in the tens of millions of yuan, backed by MiraclePlus, Lingyi Ventures and Pengchen Investment. Founded in 2025, the company develops technologies related to robotic nervous systems. On the hardware side, it has launched the ASC-01 pulse-encoding chip and is using it as a foundation to develop intelligent sensing modules across modalities, including electronic skin and electronic nose, enabling robots to capture different types of external information.

  • Anthropic to File Publicly for IPO as Early as Friday in Key Test of AI Market Appetite

    AI company Anthropic will publicly file its S-1 registration statement as early as Friday, a key step in its listing process that could create the largest IPO on record. Wall Street expects the company could raise up to $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation. The IPO is widely viewed as a key test of investor appetite for the AI boom amid growing concerns over massive spending in the sector.
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