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Scalabot
2026-09-08 11:20:32

Scalabot unveils HERON-World Model for action-conditioned prediction across multiple agents

Scalabot has introduced HERON-World Model, which the team describes as its first world model designed to predict what happens next after a robot takes an action. Given a current frame and an action input, the model generates a forecast of how the scene may evolve. The company said the system goes beyond single-agent prediction and can also model coordination, interference, and shared physical outcomes when multiple agents act at the same time. According to Scalabot, HERON-World Model was evaluated offline under the open-source WorldArena 1.0 Track 1 benchmark and posted an EWMScore_P of 75.80. In category scores cited in the release, it recorded 95.60 in physical interaction, 99.20 in spatial perspective, 92.61 in motion dynamics, and 56.66 in trajectory accuracy. The demos highlighted three main capabilities: modeling physical laws, maintaining state memory and temporal consistency, and forecasting multi-agent interaction. The team said the training pipeline combines Ego first-person human operation video, simulation data reconstructed from real scenes, and real-robot data. It also uses a MoT+MoE architecture. In the setup described by Scalabot, MoT is used to preserve the Vision-Language Model’s prior world knowledge while training the generative branch, while MoE splits generation into high-noise and low-noise experts to handle coarse scene structure and fine interaction details separately.

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Scalabot unveils HERON-World Model for action-conditioned prediction across multiple agents
Pokemon TCG
2026-09-06 04:47:17

Pokemon TCG turns into an AI contest as 6,835 teams compete for more than $300,000

Pokemon Trading Card Game has become the setting for a large-scale AI competition, with more than 6,835 teams spending over two months training agents for the Pokemon Trading Card Game AI Battle Challenge. The event was announced on June 16 by the official Pokemon competition site and is hosted by Kaggle, with The Pokemon Company, Matsuo Institute and HEROZ listed as co-organizers. Google, Google Cloud and NVIDIA are providing technical support. The contest is split into a simulation division and a strategy division, with the latter awarding $30,000 each to the top eight teams and Google Cloud credits worth $3,000 per member for finalists. The championship round is scheduled for sometime after the end of 2026 and will be streamed on YouTube. The article argues that Pokemon TCG presents a different problem from chess, shogi and Go because it is an imperfect-information game involving hidden hands, random draws and deck inference, making it closer to poker-style decision systems than the path taken by AlphaGo.

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Pokemon TCG turns into an AI contest as 6,835 teams compete for more than $300,000
Pudgy Penguin
2026-07-15 02:16:17

Pudgy Penguins to debut original Pax Pengu & Polly comic series at SDCC 2026

Pudgy Penguins said it will officially launch its first original comic series, The Adventures of Pax Pengu & Polly, at San Diego Comic-Con 2026. The project is structured as a three-volume run — To The Berg, Betrayal on The Berg, and A New Dawn on The Berg — and is described as a foundation for the broader Pudgy Penguins entertainment universe. The story follows Pax Pengu after he receives a mysterious letter tied to missing family members, setting off a journey across Antarctica where he meets Polly and confronts a survival crisis facing their home, The Berg. The series is written by Vivian Lin, illustrated by Afiq Salam, and developed with creative direction from Pudgy Penguins co-founder and chief creative officer Peter Lobanov. Salam said the artwork was fully hand-drawn with no AI-generated imagery used. Pudgy Penguins plans an in-person launch at booth 2846 during SDCC from July 23 to July 26, where single issues will sell for $9.99. A hardcover compilation, The Berg Collection, will also be offered in a global limited run of 1,000 copies at $49.99, with signed items and related collectibles available on site before broader retail and website sales begin afterward.

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Pudgy Penguins to debut original Pax Pengu & Polly comic series at SDCC 2026