This Week in
Robotics
A weekly technical briefing on policy learning, manipulation and embodiment. Mechanism over hype.
Issues
Issue 2026-W35
A 0.68M-parameter predictive-coding policy from Sony CSL beat parameter-matched Transformer and LSTM baselines by 4–7× on LIBERO, which is a direct attack on the premise that language-conditioned control needs VLA-scale parameters — while capital moved the opposite way, with Soft