Seeing ≠ feeling in robotics🤖. Collecting data without force... feedback is not only frustrating but also doesn’t work for contact-rich tasks. Introducing FACTR: a low-cost teleop that lets users feel what the robot feels + a simple algo to integrate force into autonomous policies. Video doesn't do justice, but feels magical in person!🚀 Also removes the need for gravity compensation strings.show more

Low-latency humanoid robot teleop with high-fidelity force feedback

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

ManiFeel is a benchmark for contact-rich manipulation tasks. Force-... and tactile-based tasks with occlusions and partially-observable state are going to be crucial for true general purpose robotics. Website:show more

New startup out of stealth in Cambridge MA: Eka... Robotics. The company is building intelligence for the physical world in its native language: FORCE. Their core solution to mastering fast, reliable adaptive robots: Vision-Force-Action (VFA) model: - sim-only reinforcement learning - no human teleop data - robot practices thousands of hours in a physics-rich simulator (mass, inertia) and comes up with its own solutions, AlphaZero-style. - custom grippers add touch sensing; the model maps pixels + felt force to actions.show more

AR and Robotics is such an amazing combination The... video doesn’t do it justice but interacting natively in 3D space is intuitive and feels natural This is Spectacles driving a Reachy Mini from Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics Thanks again to SensAI Hackademy 🙂show more

We‘re gonna be doing DAgger style data collection soon.... But the leader arms can’t carry their own weight and would need to follow the leaders at all time. That feels messy, so Aurel Arnold implemented a teleop setup with the Quest in the last 1.5 days. First configuration is working now, but not feeling 100% natural yet. Hard to describe why.show more

Odesa. The Glovo courier already feels that he is... not just a courier, but also... the subject of delivery.show more

🚨 Light has no mass… So why does gravity... bend it? Because gravity isn’t pulling on mass. It’s shaping reality itself. In Einstein’s view: Objects don’t get “pulled” they follow curves in spacetime. But take it one step further: What if it’s not just space bending… but time forming stable paths? In my framework: Light doesn’t feel a force It follows the only stable path that exists Gravity = where time structures become curved and consistent So light doesn’t get pulled… It simply has no other path that holds together. The real question is: If everything follows stable structures in time… is gravity just reality choosing the path that can exist? Follow for deeper physics beyond force and particles.show more

The best thing that can happen to a man... is not only to be rich, but also to find a good womanshow more

We need to review our policing policies. That walk... should not be allowed in the police force. A police must walk upright. That's why the public doesn't take them serious.show more

it feels like i’m watching a new scene just... ‘cause is a different angle is not even Wednesday to be complaining, but i no longer feel the longing for that day in particular their is nothing for me to wait for.show more

Is it the first time when Putin said that... the war in Ukraine is “moving towards its conclusion”? He also said he is ready to meet Zelensky not only in Moscow, but also in a third country, but only to “sign an agreement.”show more

Every being living feels need hug but not say... why ( maybe only for a fish ?)show more

A logo isn’t a brand but it’s often the... first thing people judge you on. If it feels generic or forgettable, it quietly undermines everything else. Not because logos do all the work, but because perception is built in seconds. That’s why I put so much care into making each one distinctive. It doesn’t need to explain the whole story, but it should evoke something. A feeling. A sense of intent. Here’s a 2026 showreel of some of my logo work.show more

need everyone to understand that namjoon not only gave... credit to armys but also made sure that the big leaders in the crowd knows about what kind of fandom armys isshow more

The best pitcher in baseball retired 14 hitters in... a row and had not yet reached the 100-pitch plateau. A.J. Hinch not only removed him for Kyle Finnegan but also did not force Josh Naylor to face LHP Tyler Holton. Seattle makes him pay.show more

There is extraordinary power in kindness. It impacts the... recipient; inspires the witness; and transforms the giver into a force for good - someone who doesn’t just hope for a better world, but helps create it.show more

Peeling a potato is trivial -- until you try... to make a robot do it with a knife. This is actually one of the hardest problems in manipulation: contact-rich, force-sensitive, and success is subjective. We taught a robot arm to peel with >90% success :Dshow more

Yeah! Teleoperation on low-cost robot arm from Tau Robotics... working natively at 200Hz with and a very simple code. We are working a video tutorial to make it easy for anyone to reproduce our setup (in simulation or with a real robot). Stay tuned 😋show more

one of my favorite things about rachel zegler is... how she feels everything at 100%, how she doesn’t hide the fact that she gets sentimental and just lets go. as a girl that also tears up easily i can’t help but love her for this 🤍show more