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ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA
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So, humanoid robots are nearing peak human efficiency. I may per chance per chance per chance display, even supposing, that right here’s likely very far from peak robot efficiency, which has yet to be successfully exploited, since it requires extra than correct copying humans.
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“The Avenue Dance of China” Turning lightness into gravity, and rhythm into impact.That is a head-on collision between metal and beats. This Chinese language New Year, peek PNDbotics Adam elevate the warmth with a inequity.
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You had me at robot pandas.
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NASA’s Perseverance rover can now precisely prefer its earn situation on Mars without looking ahead to human motivate from Earth. That is feasible consequently of a fresh expertise known as Mars Global Localization. This expertise without warning compares panoramic pictures from the rover’s navigation cameras with onboard orbital terrain maps. It’s done with an algorithm that runs on the rover’s Helicopter Tainted Dwelling processor, which was first and foremost broken-correct down to talk with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. In a pair of minutes, the algorithm can pinpoint Perseverance’s characteristic to inner about 10 inches (25 centimeters). The expertise will motivate the rover force farther autonomously and support exploring.
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Legs? Where we’re going, we don’t need legs!
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That is a limited a tangent to robotics, but it absolutely will get a pass consequently of the adorable jumping spider pictures.
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Corvus One for Frigid Chain is engineered to live and operate in freezer environments permanently, correct down to -20°F, while asserting fat flight and barcode scanning efficiency.
I’m certain there is an magnificent trigger of striking a cold storage facility in the Mojave desolate tract.
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The video paperwork the latest progress made in the selecting price of the Shiva robot when selecting strawberries. It first presentations the outdated keep, then the extra pattern, and eventually the sphere check.
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Knowledge powers an organization’s digital transformation, and ST Engineering MRAS is leveraging Set to salvage a fat inquire of of noteworthy equipment and facility. Working autonomously, Set collects knowledge about machine health – and now, consequently of an integration of the Leica BLK ARC for fact capture, detailed and comely point cloud recordsdata for their digital twin.
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The title of this video is “Safe out and non-public an even time!” Is that largely what humanoid robots are good for correct away, moderately necessary…?
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ASTORINO is a contemporary 6-axis robot in accordance with 3D printing expertise. Programmable in AS-language, it facilitates the preparation of classes with ready-made teaching materials, is unassuming each to exhaust and to repair, and affords the opportunity to be taught and form errors without scare of breaking it.
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Can I salvage this in my lounge?
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What does it mean to form a humanoid robot in seven months, and the subsequent one in correct five? This documentary takes you gradual the scenes at Humanoid, a UK-essentially based AI and robotics company constructing legitimate, stable, and reasonable humanoid robots. You’ll hear straight from our engineering, hardware, product, and loads of groups as they allotment their views on the budge of turning bodily AI into fact.
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This IROS 2025 keynote is from Tim Chung who’s now at Microsoft, on “Catalyzing the Future of Human, Robotic, and AI Agent Groups in the Bodily World.”
The convergence of technologies—from foundation AI fashions to various sensors and actuators to ubiquitous connectivity—is reworking the personality of interactions in the bodily and digital world. Of us non-public accelerated their collaborative connections and productivity through digital and immersive technologies, no longer restricted by geography or language or salvage correct of entry to. Humans non-public also leveraged and interacted with AI in many totally different forms, with the introduction of hyperscale AI fashions (i.e., huge language fashions) with out a slay in sight altering (and at an ever-wonderful meander) the personality of human-AI groups, realized on this expertise of the AI “copilot.” Equally, robotics and automation technologies now come up with the money for bigger opportunities to work with and/or shut to humans, taking into consideration extra and additional collaborative bodily robots to dramatically impact staunch-world activities. It is miles the compounding enact of enabling all three capabilities, each complementary to each other in precious ways, and we envision the triad fashioned by human-robot-AI groups as revolutionizing the contrivance ahead for society, the financial system, and of craftsmanship.
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This GRASP SFI enlighten is by Chris Paxton at Agility Robotics, on “How Shut Are We To Generalist Humanoid Robots?”
With billions of greenbacks of funding pouring into robotics, overall-motive humanoid robots seem nearer than ever. And surely it feels love the meander of robotics is sooner than ever, » …
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