AI Daily Digest: May 20, 2026 — Agentic Workflows, Coding Agents & Embodied AI (opens in new tab)

5-min read · Curated daily by an AI Systems Architect Focus: Agentic Workflows · AI Coding Tools · Embodied Intelligence 1. Pelican-Unified 1.0 — The First Truly Unified Embodied AI Model 【Technical Core】 Pelican-Unified 1.0 (arXiv:2605.15153, May 14, 2026) is the first embodied foundation model trained under a strict unification principle. A single VLM serves as the unified understanding module, autoregressively generating task-oriented, action-oriented, and future-oriented chains of thought...