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UBTECH Details Thinker-WM, a World Model That Unifies Video, Depth and Robot Actions

10.17

UBTECH has published details of Thinker-WM, a world model developed by its Thinker team that encodes RGB video, metric depth and robot actions in a single shared representation.

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