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HY-Embodied-0.5

Tencent's embodied foundation-model family: spatial reasoning, planning, robot perception, 0.5-X.

Open-source model family with enhanced 0.5-X releaseLocal open source
HY-Embodied-0.5 world model demo View demo
OrganizationTencent Robotics X / HY Vision Team
CategoryEmbodied foundation model
AvailabilityGitHub, arXiv paper, Hugging Face weights, April 2026 HY-Embodied-0.5-X release.
Last reviewed2026-04-24

01 / Overview

Embodied reasoning, spatial understanding, task planning, multimodal perception, VLA-adjacent robot-control.

Tencent's embodied foundation-model family: spatial reasoning, planning, robot perception, 0.5-X.

HY-Embodied-0.5 is valuable because it gives Tencent coverage a second lane beyond generated 3D worlds: spatial reasoning and embodied planning.

The page should help readers decide whether they are looking at a world generator, a robot-facing foundation model, or a benchmarked planning system.

The 0.5-X update is treated as a release signal, not as blanket proof that every downstream robot workflow is production-ready.

02 / Strengths

Where it stands out

  • Primary-source Tencent anchor in physical AI without overclaiming world-simulator status.
  • Strong reproducible surfaces: GitHub code, arXiv paper, Hugging Face checkpoints.
  • Compares robot cognition with Tencent's separate HY-World 2.0 generated-3D stack.

03 / Boundaries

What not to overclaim

  • Embodied planning family, not consumer world product like Marble, HappyOyster.
  • Claims center on embodied benchmarks, robot reasoning, not world simulators.

04 / Practical path

How to evaluate it

  1. 01

    Identify supported model variants and evaluation setup in GitHub.

  2. 02

    Verify the 0.5-X checkpoint surface on Hugging Face.

  3. 03

    Use the HY-World 2.0 comparison for reasoning-versus-generated-worlds questions.

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