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X Square Robot Launches X2Real, an Evolving Simulation Benchmark It Says Tracks Real-Robot Results

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Embodied AI startup X Square Robot has released X2Real, a simulation benchmark designed to measure how robot foundation models will perform in the physical world, and to keep growing its test set as…

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