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    "headline": "The Humanoid Learned the House Before Entering One",
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    "dek": "HALO trains vision-language-motion control across a thousand generated homes, then transfers to six unmapped physical environments without real-home training.",
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    "body_text": "Generalist humanoid control needs paired images, language and low-level motion, but collecting that supervision through teleoperation consumes human time one hour at a time. HALO replaces that bottleneck with a procedurally generated corpus spanning a thousand simulated homes. The system learns individual skills including sitting, moving to named objects, squeezing through half-open doors, crouching beneath tables and pushing boxes, then composes them into longer tasks. In 360 physical trials across six unmapped real environments, the authors report 91 percent success without training in a real home. That is a result from the paper's robots, scenes and task definitions—not evidence that a household humanoid can handle arbitrary homes—but it makes the simulation-to-reality claim unusually concrete.",
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