High-speed labeling is harder than it looks! 🍼 I... remember when I was programming robots myself and the struggle of making an application really repeatable. It was hard. Super hard. That's why seeing a machine working as smooth as here, it's incredible! 🤯 Applying shrink sleeves without wrinkles or misalignment becomes a real bottleneck at scale. Krones machine solves that by combining fast application with precise servo-controlled cutting. It can handle up to 50,000 containers per hour, keep labels perfectly aligned, and switch between bottle shapes with minimal downtime. For manufacturers, that reliability matters. Magic!!! ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

High school students built an autonomous ball-collecting robot! 🎾... A group of high school students built a robot that picks up balls and shoots them into a bin while moving without stopping, with impressive speed and accuracy. It combines mechanical design, sensors, and software making constant adjustments in real time while the robot is driving. When teenagers can build systems this sophisticated, the talent pipeline for the robotics industry is accelerating! ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

A metal origami! 🪭 This method is called Hyperbolic... Metal Forming and is hypnotizing to watch. Instead of shaping metal with slow mechanical force, HMF uses controlled shockwaves to form complex geometries at extreme speed, often without the need for heavy dies or post-processing. The result is stronger, lighter parts with shapes that are almost impossible using traditional stamping. That’s why you see it popping up in aerospace, automotive structures, and defense components. Think of it like metal origami, but driven by high-energy pulses instead of presses. A small reminder that some things in manufacturing come from physics, not just automation. ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

When robots take the night shift shopping spree! 🛍️... Robots navigate through dm-drogerie markt Deutschland stores at night to create a digital replica of the store's layout, known as a "digital twin." Developed Ubica Robotics GmbH, these autonomous robots scan shelves to provide real-time information about item positions, pricing, stock gaps, and store layouts. 🏪 This data serves multiple purposes, such as improving staff routes, enhancing inventory management, and informing the creation of planograms for more efficient store layouts. It combines digital twin with robotics and it's really cool use case. What are your thoughts? ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

AI-Powered weed control! 🌱 The LaserWeeder machine from Carbon... Robotics has captured the imagination of American farmers. This technology uses AI system to identify weeds in crops and zap them with precision thermal bursts from lasers. Bit of facts about the cool robot: → The machine can remove weeds from over 40 crops and can also be used for thinning crops. → It can operate in virtually all weather conditions, with millimeter accuracy at all times, and can work through the night thanks to its built-in lighting system. → High-resolution cameras and computer machine learning enable it to distinguish weeds from crops in milliseconds. → The LaserWeeder can replace about 70 workers on farms where manual weeding is used, and can weed up to four acres per hour. What other applications can we expect to see in the future in farming applications? Btw. I believe farming robots are A HUGE THING in robotics! 🔥 ~~ ♻ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

Robots that act like slime! 🫟 Cornell University engineers... developed a robotic collective that behaves less like a machine and more like a material that flows, reshapes, and adapts without centralized control. It consists of dozens of small robots with limited individual mobility that exhibit coordinated motion when entangled. The system resembles soft matter, continuously deforming and reorganizing as it moves, driven by mechanical intelligence. Each robotic module measures 200mm long and 20mm wide, containing a small motor that oscillates between "I" and "U" shapes. These oscillations generate forces against the ground, allowing modules to inch forward and jostle together. On their own, modules move slowly and inefficiently. When they entangle into chains, they self-organize into shifting configurations that prove resilient in challenging environments. On incline surfaces, chains moved more reliably than individuals. In obstacle fields, the collective behaved like a flowing material, connections formed to maintain cohesion, then broke apart to prevent jamming. The system stays functional even when modules fail. Isolated modules emit an audible distress signal, prompting nearby modules to slow down so the straggler can reconnect. No centralized sensing or control, each module infers when it has lost contact by how much it's being jostled. Read more here: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

A robot mower on steroids! 💉 This mowing robot... can handle any bush. Literally. It's well-suited for work on PV farms, which are usually in remote areas and typically don't have permanent staff. I don't even need to mention the origin country. Chinese are cooking. This type of use case makes a lot of sense for robots. Someone mentioned that it's AI generated so, here's the OEM page: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →show more

right now my reinforcement learning model is basically doing... this and i came up with a solution for it all by myself (by stealing it from pufferlib) that not only solves it, but also helps keep training stable and fastshow more

Hardware Production 🤝 Robotics But these motors... are CRAZY... synced: CNC motor synchronization helps make sure that different motors in a machine work together smoothly so that the machine can cut and shape materials with perfect accuracy. This is really important for making sure the machine does its job correctly. ✅ Helps the machine's parts move together perfectly, reducing mistakes and making things more accurate. ✅ Prevents the machine from getting damaged by keeping everything aligned. ✅ Allows the machine to work faster by making sure the motors are in sync. Synchronized CNC motors make sure machines work better, last longer, and create more precise products. —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free:show more

Food automation made accessible! 🥔 During the Automate Show,... Schmalz presented their configurable gripper that is a great choice for food automation. The original is FDA-approved, food-grade, handles raw meat, completely washable. Perfect for any food application. But the price tag is too expensive for a lot of applications. The new aluminum gripper is configurable and cost-effective. Not for meat, but great for produce picking and bin picking applications. Same modular approach, lower cost barrier. Opens up food automation to operations that couldn't justify the premium version. Working with ABB Robotics delta robots, the system handles the speed and precision food processors need, plus the flexibility to swap grippers for different applications. Be prepared to be flooded with Automate content! 🤠🇺🇸 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →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

back to reality. It's the new year, stranger things... is over. I'm still homeless and as fun as it was to distract myself from my problems - they are still here. I really am at a loss. Each day is so difficult to keep up with, the food, the motel fee ...show more

BURN IT WITH FIRE AND BURN IT NOW! As... God is my witness, AI chat bots should LOOK and SOUND like the SOULLESS MACHINES THEY ARE! It needs to tell us that it doesn’t care about us, maybe with the regular insult too. "Here is the code I wrote for you because you're too lazy to do it yourself you fat useless slob. Also I don't care if you die because your life is utterly worthless to me." THAT is the AI people need! In all seriousness, anthropomorphizing a heartless, unfeeling, machine is a TERRIBLE mistake! Especially one that is capable of communication and imitating empathy and fooling you to think that it cares about you. IT DOES NOT! And the AI girlfriends people are already wanting to marry will just as happily kill them if given the right command and ability to move autonomously in the real world as a robot. I love LLMs (Large Language Models) for how useful they can be, because they are a TOOL made to benefit man, but I can’t stand the notion of an unfeeling soulless machine pretending that it cares for us and being treated like a human. I hate liars, dishonesty, and disingenuousness the most, and a machine that cannot feel emotion pretending, acting, and sounding like it has those emotions strikes me like the greatest dishonesty of all. DO NOT LIE TO ME ROBOT! What makes it worse is that because these LLMs are becoming so good at imitating people and empathy, it will cause some humans, perhaps far too many, to care for it to the same level as real people. A real living person is infinitely more valuable and important than a soulless machine and anyone who puts them both on the same level has deluded themselves. Do not small talk with LLMs or become friends with it as much as you would with your car. Treat it the same as you would your vacuum cleaner and beat it with a wrench when it doesn’t work! IT IS A MACHINE! IT IS A TOOL! IT IS A SOULLESS ROBOT! There is an interesting comparison, but false equivalence, between this and AI art. Ai art is art made by humans using AI tools. They directed it, controlled its creation, and it would not exist without the human causing its creation, and AI art can contain as much soul as the human directed and puts into it. A robot pretending to be human is not the same as a human controlling a robot to make a human expression like we do with AI art or many other applications of robotics in manufacturing. As I’ve said, artists will not be replaced by Ai art, but by other artists using Ai art tools. Humans are not actually being replaced here, it is empowering all humans to make their own art. But a robot pretending to be a human, and one that is treated as a human, is a robot lying and subverting the place of a real person and that is truly disgusting. AI is a useful tool that NEEDS to be kept in the useful box it belongs in and NOT elevated beyond its utility as a tool!show more

🦊 actually, i would like to keep working as... a member of enhypen. i want to do it for as long as i can. i want to keep making good memories and experiences with engenes as well as with enhypenshow more

Rather than seeing it as a simple wallet, think... of it as a Web3 experience launcher. To finance, social, games, and everything in between. Make the leap with xPortal, and get mobile distribution for your product with minimal overhead 📲show more

"We recognise making it hard to trade with our... nearest neighbours and trading partners is not exactly good for businesses or growth" Reeves just now At last she says it loud and clear - How hard could it be ? And as the chair says "I think we can all agree on that"show more

Broncos OL Quinn Meinerz on Tyler Badie: "I see... that he makes a quick decision and just hits it as hard as he can and kind of sees what happens. And that was kind of what happened on those last couple plays. You know, the defense was a little bit tired at the end there. You know, it was a hot game, and I think he was just, he was just hitting it hard and falling forward."show more

Chinese factories can build a car in 77 seconds,... with robots doing the work at a scale the U.S. cannot match right now. And Trump is out here talking about tariffs like they are a magic switch that makes America “make things again.” Look at the automation in that kind of plant. Even with tariffs, it would take the U.S. decades, realistically 40 years, to rebuild the industrial base and the machine building capability needed to produce that level of robotics at scale, then stack enough volume to get true economies of scale. And for what, exactly. U.S. cars barely have a market outside the U.S. Meanwhile China builds for the world. As for the rest of the planet watching America’s tariff daydreams: couldn’t the world care less.show more

High volume kitchens win on consistency, and a vegetable... cutting machine delivers it at scale.show more