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Qwen Ships a Robot Foundation Model Suite, Bringing Its Open LLM Playbook to Embodied AI

Qwen released three robot foundation models at once, one each for navigation, manipulation, and world modeling, tied together by a language interface so general models can call them as tools. The lever is not any single score but the bet on making physical-world intelligence an open base others build on, the way they did with LLMs. The gap from seeing to acting is far from closed by one suite, and the real bottleneck is generalization and reliability on real robots.