# EAI.1 Blog

> Posts about Embodied AI | A path to AGI

This is the official blog for Embodied AI concepts, tutorials, and deep-dives.

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## Recent Posts


- [The Sim-to-Real Gap Isn't a Physics Problem — It's a Contact Problem](https://eai.one/embodied-ai/sim-to-real/manipulation/contact-dynamics/2026/04/19/the-sim-to-real-gap-isnt-a-physics-problem-its-a-contact-problem.html) - April 19, 2026
  When sim-to-real transfer finally cracked locomotion — ANYmal bounding over rubble, Cassie walking off treadmills, Unitree’s G1 handling stairs wit...

- [Event Cameras Are the Right Sensor for Fast Robots. The Field Is Finally Catching Up.](https://eai.one/embodied-ai/perception/neuromorphic-computing/2026/03/09/event-cameras-are-the-right-sensor-for-fast-robots-the-field-is-finally-catching-up.html) - March 09, 2026
  Every frame-based camera attached to a robot is a small lie about time. The sensor pretends the world updates at 30, 60, maybe 120 frames per secon...

- [The Chinchilla Question for Robots: Why Scaling Laws Don't Transfer Cleanly from Language to Physical AI](https://eai.one/embodied-ai/foundation-models/scaling-laws/learning/2026/03/06/the-chinchilla-question-for-robots-why-scaling-laws-dont-transfer-cleanly-from-language-to-physical-ai.html) - March 06, 2026
  The scaling hypothesis — more parameters, more data, more compute equals better models — rewrote the trajectory of language AI. Chinchilla showed t...

- [Touch Is the Missing Modality: Why Tactile Sensing Will Define the Next Phase of Dexterous Manipulation](https://eai.one/embodied-ai/tactile-sensing/dexterous-manipulation/perception/2026/03/03/touch-is-the-missing-modality-why-tactile-sensing-will-define-the-next-phase-of-dexterous-manipulation.html) - March 03, 2026
  Every major VLA model released in the last two years shares a quiet limitation: they are, fundamentally, eye-hand coordination systems. Vision-Lang...

- [3D Gaussian Splatting Is Quietly Becoming Infrastructure for Robot Perception](https://eai.one/embodied-ai/perception/3d-representations/2026/03/02/3d-gaussian-splatting-is-quietly-becoming-infrastructure-for-robot-perception.html) - March 02, 2026
  The field of robot scene understanding has been quietly colonized by a representation nobody originally designed for it. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DG...

- [Whole-Body Control Is the Unsolved Core of Humanoid Robotics](https://eai.one/embodied-ai/whole-body-control/humanoid-robots/2026/02/28/whole-body-control-is-the-unsolved-core-of-humanoid-robotics.html) - February 28, 2026
  The humanoid moment is real — Figure 02 is assembling BMW door panels, Unitree’s G1 is doing backflips, Tesla Optimus is folding shirts. But beneat...

- [Flow Matching Is Replacing Diffusion Policy — Here's the Mechanism](https://eai.one/embodied-ai/flow-matching/learning-from-demonstration/2026/02/28/eai-weekly.html) - February 28, 2026
  The action generation layer of robot learning has quietly undergone a revolution in the past eighteen months. Diffusion Policy — Chi et al.’s 2023 ...

- [World Models for Robots: Learning to Predict Before Acting](https://eai.one/embodied-ai/world-models/robot-learning/2026/02/28/eai-weekly.html) - February 28, 2026
  One of the most significant shifts in embodied AI research over the past year has been the rise of world models — learned internal representations ...

- [Embodied AI in 2025: A Year of Breakthroughs](https://eai.one/embodied-ai/vla/humanoid-robots/foundation-models/2026/02/27/embodied-ai-2025-highlights.html) - February 27, 2026
  It has been almost a year since our last post. A lot has happened in the world of embodied AI. This post is a catch-up covering the most significan...

- [Universal Manipulation Interface (UMI)](https://eai.one/embodied-ai/umi/2025/03/05/umi.html) - March 05, 2025
  Universal Manipulation Interface: UMI is an innovative framework designed to bridge the gap between human demonstration and robotic execution, enab...