MolmoAct 2: An Open Foundation for Robots That Work in the Real World

Jul 11, 2026

The Allen Institute for AI has released MolmoAct 2, a fully open robotics foundation model designed to improve 3D action reasoning for real-world robot tasks. The release also includes a new bimanual manipulation dataset to support research and reproducibility.

Why it matters: This open-source model and dataset could accelerate robotics research by enabling reproducible study of bimanual manipulation.

Full story at: Allen Institute for AI ↗