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news Scmp World 2026-06-05

Chinese Researchers Achieve AI Breakthrough in Training Home Robots

Chinese researchers claim a significant advancement in training household robots by developing Kairos-HomeWorld, the first framework to generate realistic home environments using text prompts, potentially accelerating robot adoption.


A team of Chinese researchers has claimed a breakthrough in training robots in real-world home environments, tackling a long-standing data bottleneck in the field and potentially accelerating the adoption of robots at home. Kairos-HomeWorld was the world’s first unified framework capable of generating coherent, accurate and simulation-ready home environments using simple text prompts, according to researchers from Ace Robotics, a start-up backed by Hong Kong-listed artificial intelligence...

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