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ByteDance Unveils GR-3: A General-Purpose Robot “Brain” That Learns New Tasks with Minimal Data and Masters Flexible Objects

On July 22, ByteDance’s Seed team introduced GR-3, a next-generation Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model. Unlike previous systems that require massive robot trajectory datasets, GR-3 can be efficiently fine-tuned on new tasks or unseen objects with just a handful of human demonstrations. It understands abstract language commands and performs dexterous manipulation of soft objects.

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A Decade-Long Quest for the “Magic Mirror”: Chinese Innovation Behind Tianwen-1’s First HD Mars Portrait

In 2021, China’s Tianwen-1 probe captured its first high-definition “portrait” of Mars from about 2.2 million kilometers away, revealing surface channels and ridges in unprecedented clarity. Few know that this breakthrough relied on an off-axis three-mirror optical system once embargoed by Western countries—now independently mastered by Chinese scientists and set to become standard on future deep-space missions.

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