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- NVIDIA GR00T 2: open robot model claims 95% task success with five demos
NVIDIA unveiled GR00T 2 at CoRL, claiming 95% average success on 50 tasks with five demos each. Foxconn is applying it to server manufacturing.
- XPeng GroundingPI: open-source 4B robot perception model it says beats GPT-6 Astra on benchmarks
XPeng's open-source GroundingPI, a 4B-parameter perception model for robots, averaged 73.68 vs GPT-6 Astra's 71.54 on 34 benchmarks.