WR1 announces integrated humanoid whole-body manipulation
The October 8 announcement describes WM/VLA-generated locomotion, posture and hand-action sequences executed by GAE, with humanoid household and two-robot clothing demonstrations. It adds a whole-body application scope; the published evidence remains manufacturer demonstrations.
Previously reported
The publisher describes earlier WR1 garment-folding demonstrations on a robotic-arm platform. Its existing GAE execution component and teleoperation research do not alone establish autonomous whole-body household planning.
This announcement
The October 8 announcement describes WM/VLA-generated locomotion, posture and hand-action sequences executed by GAE, with humanoid household and two-robot clothing demonstrations. It adds a whole-body application scope; the published evidence remains manufacturer demonstrations.
Featured: the announced humanoid whole-body model materially changes the capability scope users can assess beyond earlier arm demonstrations. This is not a verified benchmark breakthrough, open weights/API or a world-first finding. The fastest36s/100% figures are earlier fixed-arm claims with unknown trials, not humanoid results. October8 is the model date explicitly stated in the publisher article; later website posting and today’s backfill are not launch dates.