CMU robotics research roundup — April 2026 papers worth reading
Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute dropped four notable papers at ICRA prep in April 2026, with two on long-horizon LLM-driven manipulation policies that beat RT-2 baselines.
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Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute dropped four notable papers at ICRA prep in April 2026, with two on long-horizon LLM-driven manipulation policies that beat RT-2 baselines.
Google DeepMind refreshed Gemini Robotics-ER on April 25, 2026 with stronger spatial reasoning evals and a public Robotics-ER endpoint via Vertex AI.
NVIDIA released GR00T N2 in late April 2026 with a new vision-language-action backbone trained on Cosmos-generated synthetic data and tighter Isaac Sim integration.
Skild AI closed a $200M round led by Lightspeed and SoftBank in April 2026 at a reported $4B valuation, doubling down on a single learned policy that runs across humanoids and.
NYC brokerages tested CallSphere realestate (10 specialist agents) against Lula's after-hours stack across 1,200 leads in April 2026. Conversion math, latency, and pricing inside.
Augmedix is now Commure's clinical scribe layer post-acquisition. Here's the integrated product, the per-encounter pricing. The 30-day picture for buyers and operators.
Boston mid-market B2B teams adopted sales AI agents at 70%+ in 2026 driven by tight labor market. Here's the deployments, the vendor selections, the per-seat pricing.
Rasa Pro's self-hosted CX agents are winning again in 2026 — driven by EU AI Act compliance and tight data residency demands. The 30-day picture for buyers and operators.
UK government AI agent rollouts (GOV.UK Chat, NHS, HMRC) accelerated in 2026 across central government. We profile the deployments, the procurement model.
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