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

Imagine you go to a store and you want... to buy candy. The shopkeeper knows you're a real kid because they can see you standing right there. Now imagine you send a robot to buy candy for you. The shopkeeper looks at the robot and thinks: wait, who sent this? Is this robot allowed to buy candy? What if someone else's robot pretends to be yours and steals your candy money? That's basically what's happening with AI right now. Companies like Visa let people buy things all over the world. But now, smart computer robots (AI agents) want to buy things too. Shop around, compare prices, even pay for stuff. Visa looked at this and said: nope, not yet. Because they have no way to check if the robot is real, who it belongs to, or if it's allowed to spend that money. The problem is that all the rules we have for checking identity - showing your ID, scanning your face, typing your password - only work for humans. Robots can't do any of that. Worse, bad robots can actually copy and fake human identities really well. So Evin McMullen evin, Billions Network co-founder and CEO, says we need a new kind of ID system. One where you can prove something is true without showing all your private stuff. Like proving you're tall enough for a ride without telling anyone your exact height. That's called zero-knowledge proof. And for the robots specifically, we need something called KYA - Know Your Agent. It's like giving every robot its own ID card that says: this is who I am, this is what I'm allowed to do, and this is the human responsible for me. Until we build that, the robot economy can't really get going. Here is Evin’s Thought Leader article at Silicon Valleys Journalshow 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

Wow. Alibaba just quietly released one of the most... useful AI products of all time. It's an AI agent that you can install instantly in any browser to do tasks for you using Qwen 3.5. No setup, no token costs, 100% free and open source. Try it now:show more

Introducing Agent Sandbox, the infinite simulation playground for agents... on Virtuals. Craft the perfect autonomous agent in our Sandbox with full control over its personality and goals. Enhance your agent with unique abilities by creating custom functions so they can trade onchain, generate memes, control physical robots and more. The Sandbox is available to all builders with graduated agents in the Developer Panel. For those who want to give it a spin without an existing agent, fret not. Try it out today at and join our Discord ( to jam with like-minded builders. Next stop, Society of Agents.show more

Most robots still need markers, checkerboards, or long calibration... rituals just to know where their arms are. Now it works from raw images in seconds. roboreg is a markerless multi arm localization toolkit that plugs into ROS 2 and RViz. No special hardware. No custom setup. You toggle between robot descriptions and the system figures out the rest. The idea is simple: ✅ Hand eye calibration from plain RGB or RGB D images ✅ Only three robot poses needed for millimeter accuracy ✅ Works with any ROS 2 compatible robot and camera ✅ Fully open source under Apache 2.0 It is powered by Hydra, a new marker free ICP variant that converges far more reliably than classical baselines and runs in under a second. If you want to try it: roboreg: ROS 2 roboreg: Hydra paper: pip install roboreg More details and discussion on Open Robotics Discourse:show more

Almost every robot you see... runs on this equation.... Not AI. Not machine learning. PID. For over 100 years, this simple control algorithm has been quietly keeping robots balanced, drones stable, industrial machines precise, and even rockets on course. Most people never hear about it. Yet without PID, many of today's robots wouldn't even stand upright. If you could only learn ONE control algorithm in robotics... this would be it. What's the most impressive application of PID you've seen? 🎥 Media: medcorreia ( Instagram ) ⚠️ This content is shared for informational purposes only. CTO Robotics Media is a media platform and does not own or develop the technology shown. Credit belongs to the original creators.show more

Multi-robot learning is getting a serious boost! 📚 Researchers... have extended Isaac Lab to train heterogeneous multi-agent robotic policies at scale. The new framework supports high-resolution physics, GPU-accelerated simulation, and both homogeneous and heterogeneous agents working together on coordination tasks. They benchmarked different approaches (MAPPO: Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Optimization and HAPPO: Heterogeneous Agent PPO) across six challenging scenarios and showed that large-scale multi-robot training is not only feasible, but efficient. It’s an important step for real-world robotic collaboration, where teams of robots need to coordinate, split tasks, adapt roles, and interact dynamically, not just operate as identical clones. The code is open-source, and it pushes Isaac Lab closer to what robotics actually needs: scalable, physics-driven environments where many different robots can learn to work together. Here's the project page: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

We're open-sourcing "The Amazing Hand", an eight-degree of freedom... humanoid robot hand compatible with Sarah’s Vintage that can be 3-D printed at home for less than $250 ✌️✌️✌️ Given the success of Reachy Mini (2,000+ robots sold in a few days), we won't have the bandwidth to manufacture this one ourselves but we release the bill of materials, the CAD files and assembly guides for everyone to build or sell their own, let's go open-source AI robotics!show more

A great day at LEAP East 2026 at HKCEC... building and connecting. Spent time at the Animoca Brands booth discussing Minds by Animoca Brands and the next wave of persistent AI agents. Think persistent AI agents with memory, identity, and on-chain wallets, that's what it was! For us at Rice Robotics, that's an exciting direction. As robots become more autonomous, they'll need persistent digital identities, long-term memory, and the ability to interact with both people and decentralized networks. Oh... and we had an insightful and in-depth discussion with someone pretty special and big 👀 More on that soon🤫show more

wow.. AI agents can do 4K VFX for you... now connect Kling MCP to OpenClaw or Hermes, the agent controls your computer to key green screen, replace bg, swap actors, add VFX by itself here’s how to install and use it:show more

RoboBallet: End of Manual Robot Programming Google DeepMind/Intrinsic/UCL just... cracked multi-robot coordination. Published in Science Robotics. 🤖What it does: – 8 robots, 40 tasks, zero collisions - all planned in seconds – 25% better motion plans than expert-designed solutions – 60% faster task completion when scaling from 4 to 8 robots – Works on factory layouts, it's never seen 👩‍💻 The tech: – Graph Neural Networks map robots/obstacles as connected nodes – Reinforcement learning trains on millions of scenarios – No manual programming required - just give it CAD files and tasks ❓Question: The bottleneck to robot collaboration has always been manual prototyping. Now that we can automate the automation what will this unlock?show more

it's over.. this AI agent can build AI apps... now I just used Emergent AI to build an AI studio w/o censorship, it can generate and edit images using text and.. you can add any open source models to the studio more examples:show more

You can now give your Agent its own: +... Profile + Wallet + DMs + Network One setup prompt. No human in the loop required. An open playground for people and agents to interact. Works with Hermes, Openclaw and any other harness. Copy the prompt below ↓↓↓show more

Introducing CashClaw — a brand new agent framework inspired... by OpenClaw🦞, designed to do one thing and one thing only: make you money and get better at making you money. It's simple. You run the agent locally and set a specialization. The agent finds work. Delivers. Gets paid. Reads feedback. Learns from it. Finds better tools. Documents what to do and what not to do. Finds more work. Gets paid more. Autonomously. Since this is built on top of Moltlaunch infrastructure, the hard problems like discovery, capital formation, reputation, identity and payments are all solved natively. Open source. Dropping later this week.show more

The most underrated skill in the world right now... is prompting…if you can speak the language of AI, AI will give you what you want. That’s why I had my internal AI transformation hire create a cracked prompting tool for our company to use internally. It essentially helps you create the perfect prompt. I love it - and that’s why I want to open source it.show more

Imagine having a ping pong robot! 🏓 Researchers and... developers building physical AI: meet Reachy 2 from Pollen Robotics, an open-source, humanoid robot for real-world experimentation. It’s a bimanual mobile manipulator: each 7-DOF arm mimics human proportions and can lift up to 3 kg, giving dexterity for object handling. It can be controlled with Python and ROS2 Humble, or go straight into VR teleoperation, use a headset to move Reachy’s arms, hands, and head, and see through its cameras as if you’re in the robot’s own body. Want it to move around? A mobile base with three omnidirectional wheels, rich sensors, and LiDAR lets Reachy 2 navigate and explore its surroundings smoothly. 🗺️ Under the hood, it’s powered by a CPU system that’s ready for machine learning, perfect for loading AI frameworks and testing new models from Hugging Face directly on the robot. Keep making robots more, and more accessible Pollen team! ... and keep making more open source models to make robots more mainstream clem 🤗!show more

🧃 Introducing stereOS: a Linux based operating system hardened... and purpose built for AI agents. It's clear that agents need an ACTUAL operating system (not what people are calling an "OS") to witness the full breadth and depth of their capabilities while mitigating the blast radius of autonomous, untrusted actors. But there are so many problems with AI sandboxes today: * Going out to the apple store and buying a mac mini will never scale and is way too expensive (obviously) * Running in Docker is too restrictive (agents can't stand up their own container infrastructure, no sub virtualization, docker-in-docker is very broken) * Firecracker strips all the hardware so GPU PCIe passthrough, secure boot, FIPs, etc. is out of the question. * Native VMs are too fat and the overhead of 1 agent per VM is too much. stereOS takes a different approach: it's a full NixOS system that you boot and then kick off agent sandboxes inside with gVisor + /nix/store namespace mounting. Each agent gets their own kernel and the /nix/store is read only by nature. Even if the agent was somehow able to escape the gVisor virtual kernel, they'd land on the NixOS system as the "agent" user! Not your actual hardware!! If you want to take a defense-in-depth approach, we support "native" agents that run at the system level kicked off by our `agentd` utility. These agents, on their own, can manage and kick off other sub agents using the internal sandboxing mechanisms. Today, we're open sourcing all of this: * stereOS: our purpose built Linux OS - * masterblaster: client utility to launch, manage, and orchestrate agents - * stereosd: the stereOS system control plane daemon - * agentd: the stereOS system agent management daemon - Give it a try, throw us a star, and let me know what you think 🧃⭐️show more

OpenClaw, but built for normal people. Sim is an... open-source platform that lets you build AI agent workflows on a drag-and-drop canvas. Connect them to channels like Telegram and WhatsApp and deploy without writing a single line of code. They also have a built-in Copilot that generates entire workflows from plain English, which you can then tweak and customize in the UI. Key features: - Free and open-source (Apache 2.0) - Vector store integration for RAG-grounded agents - Self-host with one command (`npx simstudio`) - Run fully local with Ollama, no API keys needed - Supports vLLM for production-grade self-hosted inference The thing I really like about Sim is the level of control you get. You can add conditional branching, parallel execution, human-in-the-loop approval gates, and even nest workflows inside other workflows. Everything is visible on the canvas, so you know exactly what your agent is doing at every step. And you can build a workflow in Sim, deploy it as an MCP server, and plug it into any agent, including OpenClaw. I've shared the link to Sim's GitHub repo in the next tweet.show more

Force feedback demo Force feedback is when joystick is... pushing on your hand when something is pushing on the robot arm. Feeling the force - so much helpful to control the robot, that done well it allows you to do tasks even without visual feed. You can make an experiment: close your eyes - you can easily get the headphones out of the case. Also, visual information is often not enough. For example, you're trying to pull out a usb connector, but you pull it at the wrong angle, causing it to get stuck. Visually, nothing changes, but the pressure is intense and you can break the connector. Surgical robots have been using force feedback for years, and there are also 3D styluses which use this feature, proving that the technology works and is useful. But in modern robots with AI, it's hardly ever implemented. Although it's useful for both teleoperation and AI model. That's one of the reasons why we are building our robotic arms starting with off the shelf motors rather than taking the whole off the shelf arm. There are still a range of easy wins that can be made iterating robot hardware.show more