Robots That Wiggle Instead of Retraining, and Dreams That Obey Physics

June 30
24 mins

Episode Description

Bump the camera and a robot that worked perfectly starts grabbing at empty air. Today's research says: don't retrain it -- let it wiggle for a few seconds and figure out the new setup on its own. We dig into In-Context World Modeling, where a robot probes its own world to adapt with no retraining, and NVIDIA's PhysisForcing, which teaches a robot's imagined future to stop breaking the laws of physics. Plus the headlines: DeepSeek hands everyone a million-token memory by default, Tidal stops paying royalties on fully-AI songs, and Microsoft's Memora remembers more by storing less.

Chapters

0:00 The Robot That Wiggles Instead of Retraining
1:06 The Headlines
6:34 Intro
7:55 System Identification by Wiggling
13:45 Teaching a Dream to Obey Physics
19:32 Wrap-Up
20:54 Outro — “Wiggle the Map”

Links

The Robot That Wiggles Instead of Retraining -- https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26025
Teaching a Dream to Obey Physics -- https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28128
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