World models gain a sense of touch, physical AI enters accelerated development stage

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### World models gain a sense of touch, physical AI enters accelerated development stage Time: 2026-07-29 17:41:24 Content: To make robots truly understand the physical world, vision alone is far from enough. The future development of robots is built on world models. A world model is essentially a robot's 'physical intuition simulator'—before executing an action, it first simulates in its mind 'if I do this, what changes will happen in the world'. An excellent embodied intelligent agent must be able to predict the consequences of its actions. But all previous world models had a fatal flaw: they only looked with their eyes and never touched with their hands. Models can predict the next frame, but cannot predict the force and slip at the moment of contact. A world model without touch is like letting a blind person learn to play ball by only watching from a distance—seeing the position of the ball but never learning the feel. On July 28, 智在无界 released the world's first implicit tactile world action model Being-H0.8, introducing the tactile modality on a large scale into world model pre-training for the first time. ...