physical-ai2026-07-23

Black Forest Labs links FLUX 3 to robot action through mimic

Quick answer

Black Forest Labs says an early version of FLUX 3 is running on robots through FLUX-mimic, a video-action model developed with mimic robotics and tested in Audi production settings. The release connects multimodal video/audio world modeling with action prediction for dexterous manipulation.

Signal summary

Black Forest Labs says an early version of FLUX 3 is running on robots through FLUX-mimic, a video-action model developed with mimic robotics and tested in Audi production settings. The release connects multimodal video/audio world modeling with action prediction for dexterous manipulation.

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Why it matters

This is important for the Research Repository because it strengthens the idea that world models are becoming action backbones, not only content-generation tools.

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Source

Black Forest Labs