Xingxin on Bug A weekly record of worthwhile shares in robotics and AI.
About this series: I’m a robotics PhD student at HKUST researching robot learning and embodied AI. I share learning notes, tool discoveries, and industry observations here.
Before returned to academia, I had 4 years in the software industry. Email me to talk robotics, startups, or joint research opportunities.
💬 Quote of the Week
“Calling a robot ‘position controlled’ is a polite way of saying that it does not offer torque control.”
🤖 Robotics Roundup
📌RoboCasa365 Release
A large-scale simulation benchmark for training and systematically evaluating generalist robot models. It has “365” tasks.
Today, we publicly released RoboCasa365, a large-scale simulation benchmark for training and systematically evaluating generalist robot models. Built upon our original RoboCasa framework, it offers:
— Yuke Zhu (@yukez) March 2, 2026
• 2,500 realistic kitchen environments;
• 365 everyday tasks (basic skills +… pic.twitter.com/bVuUPr6pon
📌CS336 :Language Modeling from Scratch
A deep dive into the basics, systems, scaling laws, data, and alignment from scratch! Link
🛠️ Tool Discovery
📌Pixi for ROS2
A package manager that significantly streamlines setting up ROS 2 environments in 2026 without destroying your system Python or relying entirely on heavy Docker containers.
See more at How to Install ROS2 Without Docker or sudo apt in 2026?
📚 Resources
- WezTerm: A powerful Rust-based terminal emulator that handles multiplexing natively.
- Diederik P. (Durk) Kingma: The researcher behind AdamW.