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Curating the Future of Robotics
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Cheerleader robot went crazy during the performance. Engineers could barely stop it.
clankr283,129 views • 1 month ago
Robot running races were impressive. Obstacle races exposed their limits.
clankr177,182 views • 1 month ago
NVIDIA just dropped a crazy new research idea. Get ready. The same next-token trick behind ChatGPT got pointed at a ragdoll. Honestly the result is unsettling. No exotic new architecture. Chop human motion into a vocabulary of tiny movement tokens. Train a plain GPT to guess the next one, decode it into muscle commands, let physics run. Then the strange part shows up. Shove the character and it catches its own step. Knock it flat and it plants a hand and gets back up. NOBODY wrote a reward for standing up. Here is why this rattles robotics people. Every humanoid team right now is buried under hand-tuned controllers, one for each little skill. 🔵 the old way: script every skill and its reward by hand 🔵 this way: pretrain ONE body on a mountain of motion and the instincts come free Falling and getting up was never programmed. It emerged. Movement is just a language you can autocomplete.
clankr126,066 views • 3 months ago
This Unitree G1 performed surgery with teleoperation. First successful surgery with a humanoid. A surgeon steered it from a console the whole time. It used real surgical tools, not custom robotic ones. The G1 completed two live gallbladder removals on pigs. The work just published in Nature.
clankr64,822 views • 3 months ago
Check out this crazy quadruped at WRC 2026. Forget grasshopper. It’s Clankhopper now. 🤖
clankr30,139 views • 1 month ago
Tesla Optimus Gen 3 is entering production soon. What we know so far: 🔵 Nearly 1.8 m tall with a human-like design. 🔵 Redesigned hands with custom motors and sensors. 🔵 Vision-based AI adapted from Tesla’s driving stack. 🔵 First units will train inside the Optimus Academy.
clankr49,194 views • 2 months ago
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