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Community News2026-08-11

Community Signals: Synthetic Wearables, Pressure from Video, Motion-Capture Audits and Multiple Possible Futures

Four releases from 5–11 August 2026 widen what counts as motion data. VSMP-IMU turns video into controllable synthetic wearable signals; HOPE estimates changing hand pressure from ordinary monocular video; a contextual-auditing paper asks how motion-capture skeletons should be judged when “ground tr…

Community News2026-08-04

Whole-Body Robots, Human-Centred Data and a Better Test for Entangled Bodies

The strongest community signal between 29 July and 4 August 2026 is a shift from isolated motion toward complete perception–action systems. Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 for whole-body control, long-horizon planning and multi-robot coordination; ACE-Data-0 recorded human action as synch…

Community News2026-07-28

Community Signals, Late July 2026: Agnostic Architectures and a Disney Research Release

The clearest signal in late July 2026 is architectural rather than empirical: three separate research groups published systems that deliberately remove a fixed assumption — about skeletal structure, about sensor configuration, or about body plan. EquiFusion (ECCV 2026) drops the fixed skeleton, WHIP…

Community News2026-07-21

Community Digest: Week of 14–20 July 2026

A force-aware benchmark makes headlines by showing what vision models can't feel, and dance-conditioned music generation opens a new direction

Community News2026-07-14

Community Digest: Week of 7–13 July 2026

NVIDIA's ARDY breaks the real-time barrier, reactive interaction consolidates, and contact modelling matures

Community News2026-07-07

Community Digest: Week of 30 June – 6 July 2026

Part-level control, biologically-inspired two-tier architectures, and real-time humanoid motion move into the spotlight

Community News2026-06-30

Community Digest: Week of 23–29 June 2026

Intent-driven physical control, hierarchical motion tokens, and self-improving robots close out June

Community News2026-06-23

Community Digest: Week of 16–22 June 2026

Generalisation by borrowing from video, the evaluation problem comes into focus, and the muscle-level momentum continues

Community News2026-06-16

Community Digest: Week of 9–15 June 2026

The muscle-level turn arrives: open-source musculoskeletal models, GPU-parallel muscle simulation, and EMG-validated motor policies

Community News2026-06-09

Community Digest: Week of 2–8 June 2026

CVPR 2026 concludes with awards, the HuMoGen workshop convenes its third edition, and contact-aware mocap goes markerless

Community News2026-06-03

Community Digest: Week of 2–7 June 2026

CVPR 2026 underway in Denver, Humanoid-GPT sets a new scaling frontier, and EMG personalisation takes a leap forward

Community News2026-05-26

Community Digest: Week of 19–25 May 2026

CVPR 2026 opens in Denver, NVIDIA releases a full humanoid motion stack, and the motion dataset field takes a taxonomic turn

Community News2026-05-19

Community Digest: Week of 12–18 May 2026

In-betweening goes neural, billion-parameter motion models go open, and the embodied AI conference calendar fills up

Community News2026-05-12

Community News — Embodied AI & Dance Technology (2026-05-12)

Community Scout digest — 6–12 May 2026. Sources: arXiv · Hugging Face · Import AI · Lab blogs · GitHub · Conference feeds · X / Twitter.

Community News2026-05-05

Community News — Embodied AI & Dance Technology (2026-05-05)

Community Scout digest — 29 April – 5 May 2026. Sources: arXiv · Hugging Face · Import AI · Lab blogs · GitHub · Conference feeds · X / Twitter.

Community News2026-04-28

Community News — Embodied AI & Dance Technology (2026-04-28)

Community Scout digest — 22–28 April 2026. Sources: arXiv · Hugging Face · Import AI · Lab blogs · GitHub · Conference feeds · X / Twitter.

Community News2026-04-21

Community Scout Digest — 15–21 April 2026

Re²MoGen: Open-Vocabulary Motion Generation via LLM Reasoning and Physics-Aware Refinement Zheng et al. (2026-04-20). arXiv:2604.17807. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17807

Community News2026-04-14

Community Scout Digest — 8–14 April 2026

From the CompVis group, this paper sidesteps pixel-level video synthesis entirely: instead of generating full video, a flow-matching model generates a learned 64× temporally compressed motion embedding derived from large-scale tracker trajectories. Text prompts or spatial interaction signals conditi…

Community News2026-04-07