A new Science #Robotics study highlights an open-source, computationally... light policy that can adapt to control unfamiliar quadrotors and stabilize against external perturbations like strong winds. Giuseppe Loianno Jonas Eschmannshow more

A new Science Robotics study highlights a reinforcement learning-based,... zero-shot approach that uses motion capture and animation to train humanoid and four-legged robots to perform acrobatics.show more

A new Science Robotics study highlights exoskeletons that allow... physical therapists and patients recovering from stroke to “feel” each other’s movements as they walk on separate treadmills, enabling nuanced gait correction.show more

What if aircraft were built like open-source software? Project... Caribou is an ambitious open-source effort to build a 200 kg-class heavy-lift hexacopter that anyone can study, improve, and contribute to. The long-term goal is to accelerate the development of larger open-source aircraft and eVTOL platforms. The project targets a ~200 kg maximum takeoff weight with an ~100 kg payload, uses an 18S power architecture, and is built around an ArduPilot-based flight stack. The repository includes CAD models, PCB designs, documentation, and engineering workflows that are evolving in the open. If you are interested in drones, aerospace, robotics, or embedded systems, this is one of the most exciting open-source engineering projects to follow.show more

experimenting with a new kind of display that actually... needs a strong, sharp light source to cast some shadows 4x4 grid prototypeshow more

A recent Science Robotics study demonstrates that haptic feedback... from wearable upper body exoskeletons can improve coordination between violin duos more effectively than visual cues. Learn more:show more

A recent Science Robotics study demonstrates that haptic feedback... from wearable upper body exoskeletons can improve coordination between violin duos more effectively than visual cues. Learn more:show more

Our New Open-Source Quadruped Robot "MEVIUS2" has been accepted... to IEEE Robotics and Automation Practice (RA-P)! "MEVIUS2: Practical Open-Source Quadruped Robot with Sheet Metal Welding and Multimodal Perception" Threads👇show more

The tiny predator Lacrymaria olor owes its shape-shifting ability... to an “origami-like” cellular architecture, a new Science study finds. The results offer a glimpse into geometrical control of behavior in single cells. Learn more in this week's issue:show more

BaBot: The Ball-Balancing Robot - Real-time PID control on... a 2-axis platform, powered by a microcontroller using the same chip as an Arduino. - Precision servos and IR sensors track the ball with speed and accuracy. - Perfect for learning control systems, teaching robotics, or showing off your engineering skills. - Fully open-source & ready to build at Video Credit: Johan Link #engineering #technology #robots #roboticsshow more

Building robots that can effectively operate alongside human workers... is difficult. 🛠️ Advances in open-source physics, open foundation models, and frameworks are helping accelerate physical #AI deployment. ✔️ Newton Physics Engine, an open-source GPU-powered simulation built on OpenUSD, speeds up robot learning for advanced manipulation and mobility. ✔️ NVIDIA Cosmos Reason, an open reasoning vision language model, gives robots the ability to think like humans using prior knowledge, common sense and physics ✔️NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.6, an open robot foundation model, enables humanoids to understand ambiguous instructions Leading robotics developers including Agility Robotics, Lightwheel, Mentee Robotics, UniversalRobots, and Wandelbots are adopting simulation technologies and libraries to accelerate physical AI development and deployment. Omniverse Ambassador Dylan Tobin built an AI chatbot trained on Isaac Sim workflows, helping devs navigate Omniverse faster. Read the full blog 👉show more

AI agents can now control robots! For ClawCon, we... integrated OpenClaw🦞 and Robot Operating System (ROS) - the largest open-source robotics stack powering millions of robots worldwide. If you had an autonomous agent IRL, what would you make it do?show more

Scientists have developed a springtail-inspired, centimeter-scale robot that can... jump up to 1.4 meters. Learn more in Science Robotics:show more

A Mars rover recorded an unusual movement on the... Martian surface, drawing interest from scientists and space enthusiasts. Mars is an active world with dust devils, strong winds, and seasonal dust storms that can move sand and reshape the landscape. In many cases, unexpected motion can be linked to natural weather and environmental processes on the Red Planet. On Mars, even the wind can leave a lasting mark on the landscape. #mars #marsrover #space #nasa #scienceshow more

I’ve been eyeing this robotics platform by Vicarius Surgical... for a long time and I am vi-curious to see what it can do. I like that the engineers/designers solved the surgical robotics problem in a different way. I wonder how strong it is and does it scaleshow more

Most companies that shut down give up their impact.... This startup did something much better: they open-sourced 1,274 hours of egocentric robotics data. 13,451 recordings of humans doing everyday tasks, as a gift to the robotics community. Thank you EIDON AI! Open source has a superpower: work can outlive the organization that created it. More startups should do this!show more