TARS Robotics AWE

TARS Robotics' general-purpose embodied foundation model, whose main selling point is training on large-scale human manipulation data.

AWE is the general-purpose embodied foundation model from TARS Robotics (它石智航), a Shanghai embodied-AI company reportedly founded in February 2025; the company describes it as built on a proprietary “AI World Engine” architecture. The company released AWE 3.0 on March 14, 2026, with three main selling points: training on its own WIYH human-manipulation dataset (which the company says exceeds 1 million hours); generating actions in “latent space” (a compressed latent representation), which it says cuts jitter by more than 45%; and added high-density tactile sensing. At WAIC in July 2026, AWE won a SAIL Award, with the company's booth showing a robot doing wire-harness assembly driven by AWE 3.5. It represents a domestic line of work centered on human data as the primary training source, but there is currently no public paper, and all the figures above come from the company's own announcements.

ExampleAccording to the company's launch demo, a TARS robot running AWE 3.0 completed more than a hundred sub-millimeter-precision wire-harness assemblies in one hour.

Also called

AWE (AI World Engine), AWE 3.0, AWE 3.5

Related

TARS Robotics · World In Your Hands (WIYH) · Human Video Data · Latent Action · Embodied Foundation Model · Visuo-Tactile Fusion

Sources

丁文超博士发布通用具身大模型 AWE3.0（中国日报网，推广信息） (Chinese)
「能干活」的通用具身大模型 AWE3.0 亮相（新华网客户端） (Chinese)
它石智航@WAIC 2026：具身原生基座模型 AWE 摘得 SAIL 之星（知乎专栏） (Chinese)

As of

2026-07