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Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 8, 2026Published at 1:44 AM EDT · New York
NVIDIA and Hugging Face Add Models and Frameworks to the Open LeRobot Stack
The two are pushing robot foundation models and tooling into LeRobot to lower the cost of physical-AI development for the open community.
NVIDIA and Hugging Face said they are bringing new models and frameworks to LeRobot, the open robotics project, to make physical-AI development cheaper and less fragmented. The premise resembles what open source did for language models. Rob…
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Robotics Foundation Models for Embodied AI
Over the coming months, labs ship general-purpose robotics model suites that bridge vision-language understanding to physical navigation and manipulation, pushing foundation models into embodied action.
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