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The human wrist is one of nature's greatest engineering designs. 🤖🦾 Researchers at IRIM Lab (KOREATECH) developed a compact robotic wrist mechanism that mimics the rolling motion of human joints. The result? Smooth multi-axis movement with fewer mechanical components and without the singularity issues found in many conventional designs. Sometimes, the best robot designs don't reinvent nature. They learn from it. 🎥 Media: IRIM Lab, KOREATECH ⚠️ 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. #Robotics #Engineering #RobotDesign #Biomechanics #Automation #Innovation #FutureTech

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MagicAnimate: Temporally Consistent Human Image Animation using Diffusion Model with Gradio demo local demo: This paper studies the human image animation task, which aims to generate a video of a certain reference identity following a particular motion sequence. Existing animation works typically employ the frame-warping technique to animate the reference image towards the target motion. Despite achieving reasonable results, these approaches face challenges in maintaining temporal consistency throughout the animation due to the lack of temporal modeling and poor preservation of reference identity. In this work, we introduce MagicAnimate, a diffusion-based framework that aims at enhancing temporal consistency, preserving reference image faithfully, and improving animation fidelity. To achieve this, we first develop a video diffusion model to encode temporal information. Second, to maintain the appearance coherence across frames, we introduce a novel appearance encoder to retain the intricate details of the reference image. Leveraging these two innovations, we further employ a simple video fusion technique to encourage smooth transitions for long video animation. Empirical results demonstrate the superiority of our method over baseline approaches on two benchmarks. Notably, our approach outperforms the strongest baseline by over 38% in terms of video fidelity on the challenging TikTok dancing dataset. Code and model will be made available.

MagicAnimate: Temporally Consistent Human Image Animation using Diffusion Model with Gradio demo local demo: This paper studies the human image animation task, which aims to generate a video of a certain reference identity following a particular motion sequence. Existing animation works typically employ the frame-warping technique to animate the reference image towards the target motion. Despite achieving reasonable results, these approaches face challenges in maintaining temporal consistency throughout the animation due to the lack of temporal modeling and poor preservation of reference identity. In this work, we introduce MagicAnimate, a diffusion-based framework that aims at enhancing temporal consistency, preserving reference image faithfully, and improving animation fidelity. To achieve this, we first develop a video diffusion model to encode temporal information. Second, to maintain the appearance coherence across frames, we introduce a novel appearance encoder to retain the intricate details of the reference image. Leveraging these two innovations, we further employ a simple video fusion technique to encourage smooth transitions for long video animation. Empirical results demonstrate the superiority of our method over baseline approaches on two benchmarks. Notably, our approach outperforms the strongest baseline by over 38% in terms of video fidelity on the challenging TikTok dancing dataset. Code and model will be made available.

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The quadruped you can assemble yourself. Stella is an educational quadruped robot developed by Ahead. Designed for hands-on learning and self-assembly, the robot uses durable 3D-printed components. Ideal for all education levels, it is easy to repair, infinitely extendable, and equipped with advanced hardware and software. Despite its compact design, Stella is versatile, capable of operating in various environments and even carrying payloads like an optional robotic arm. A powerful tool for exploring robotics.

The quadruped you can assemble yourself. Stella is an educational quadruped robot developed by Ahead. Designed for hands-on learning and self-assembly, the robot uses durable 3D-printed components. Ideal for all education levels, it is easy to repair, infinitely extendable, and equipped with advanced hardware and software. Despite its compact design, Stella is versatile, capable of operating in various environments and even carrying payloads like an optional robotic arm. A powerful tool for exploring robotics.

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276,496 views • 10 months ago

We built a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) to fully control a physical robot arm (6-DOF), and it's running entirely on a Raspberry Pi (no HAT). In our approach, the SNN starts untrained and drives the servos directly, learning in real time through local learning rules (no backprop or gradient descent). The goal with Twitch-y (the robot + SNN brain) is to let it explore and build an understanding of its own body until it can touch the plate on the mat, while also validating the SNN architecture and some of the math. In the video: - Top right: the SNN architecture - Bottom right: the mini-brain spiking in real time while controlling the arm - Left: Twitch-y (Hugging Face SO-101) If you want to learn more about Artificial Brains, come visit us this Friday (13th), at Founders Inc 👉

We built a Spiking Neural Network (SNN) to fully control a physical robot arm (6-DOF), and it's running entirely on a Raspberry Pi (no HAT). In our approach, the SNN starts untrained and drives the servos directly, learning in real time through local learning rules (no backprop or gradient descent). The goal with Twitch-y (the robot + SNN brain) is to let it explore and build an understanding of its own body until it can touch the plate on the mat, while also validating the SNN architecture and some of the math. In the video: - Top right: the SNN architecture - Bottom right: the mini-brain spiking in real time while controlling the arm - Left: Twitch-y (Hugging Face SO-101) If you want to learn more about Artificial Brains, come visit us this Friday (13th), at Founders Inc 👉

Alexander A. Wolf

30,215 views • 5 months ago

🏳️‍⚧️ From “Death to America” to “A Strap and a Strategy”: A Look Inside Arm The Dollz 🏳️‍⚧️ Arm The Dollz is a trans revolutionary socialist group using explicit anti-American rhetoric while embracing militant politics. In its own promo video, the group invokes “Death to America” and “Death to the Zionist Regime,” then warns of “dangerous times” and asks how to prepare for the “war that we’re about to face.” Pair that with its calls for revolutionary struggle and talk of “a strap and a strategy,” and the picture is pretty clear. When a group is preparing for open conflict, one can only hope the Feds are already investigating. 🧵Stick around because I am 99% sure one of these speakers was already being investigated by the FBI.

🏳️‍⚧️ From “Death to America” to “A Strap and a Strategy”: A Look Inside Arm The Dollz 🏳️‍⚧️ Arm The Dollz is a trans revolutionary socialist group using explicit anti-American rhetoric while embracing militant politics. In its own promo video, the group invokes “Death to America” and “Death to the Zionist Regime,” then warns of “dangerous times” and asks how to prepare for the “war that we’re about to face.” Pair that with its calls for revolutionary struggle and talk of “a strap and a strategy,” and the picture is pretty clear. When a group is preparing for open conflict, one can only hope the Feds are already investigating. 🧵Stick around because I am 99% sure one of these speakers was already being investigated by the FBI.

Stu Smith

24,460 views • 3 months ago

Japanese Experts: China’s Robotics Capabilities Are Highly Advanced; Japan Unlikely to Catch Up Soon On July 23, the Nikkei xTECH website released a video showing Japanese technicians dismantling the G1 humanoid robot made by the Chinese company Unitree Robotics, in an effort to examine its internal structure and technological sophistication. Throughout the process, the Japanese technicians and reporters marveled at the high level of technology embodied in the Chinese humanoid robot. They ultimately concluded that Chinese robotics development has clearly moved beyond the stage of mere demonstrations; regarding humanoid robotics, it is "likely unrealistic" for Japan to narrow the gap with China in the near term. Japan was once a global pioneer in the robotics industry, holding a dominant position—particularly in industrial robotics. Today, however, China has achieved a world-leading status in the field of humanoid robotics, driven by mature, refined manufacturing processes and technological innovation.

Japanese Experts: China’s Robotics Capabilities Are Highly Advanced; Japan Unlikely to Catch Up Soon On July 23, the Nikkei xTECH website released a video showing Japanese technicians dismantling the G1 humanoid robot made by the Chinese company Unitree Robotics, in an effort to examine its internal structure and technological sophistication. Throughout the process, the Japanese technicians and reporters marveled at the high level of technology embodied in the Chinese humanoid robot. They ultimately concluded that Chinese robotics development has clearly moved beyond the stage of mere demonstrations; regarding humanoid robotics, it is "likely unrealistic" for Japan to narrow the gap with China in the near term. Japan was once a global pioneer in the robotics industry, holding a dominant position—particularly in industrial robotics. Today, however, China has achieved a world-leading status in the field of humanoid robotics, driven by mature, refined manufacturing processes and technological innovation.

Loong of the east

151,173 views • 9 days ago

Charlotte is a spider-inspired construction robot developed by Australian startups Crest Robotics and Earth Built Technology. It is designed to revolutionize building by using local raw materials instead of traditional cement. The robot can 3D print an entire 2,150-square-foot house in just 24 hours. With its bio-inspired legs, Charlotte can move autonomously, adjust its height during construction, and operate without the need for scaffolding. Although still in the prototype stage, Charlotte represents a major step toward sustainable housing solutions on Earth and future construction possibilities on the Moon.

Charlotte is a spider-inspired construction robot developed by Australian startups Crest Robotics and Earth Built Technology. It is designed to revolutionize building by using local raw materials instead of traditional cement. The robot can 3D print an entire 2,150-square-foot house in just 24 hours. With its bio-inspired legs, Charlotte can move autonomously, adjust its height during construction, and operate without the need for scaffolding. Although still in the prototype stage, Charlotte represents a major step toward sustainable housing solutions on Earth and future construction possibilities on the Moon.

Space and Technology

27,812 views • 4 months ago

This is just crazy! Clone just introduced the Torso 2, a groundbreaking android that sets a new standard for robotics. This advanced prototype features 910 artificial muscle fibers, 164 degrees of freedom, and 182 sensors for precise feedback control, enabling fluid, human-like movement. With an actuated lumbar spine and a full set of abdominal muscles, Torso 2’s design mimics human anatomy for unprecedented natural motion. Encased in a sleek, white transparent skin, the Torso 2 utilizes pneumatic actuation to animate its muscles, though current off-the-shelf valves create some noise due to air exhaust. Clone plans to return to a quieter hydraulic design with custom liquid valves for future bipedal robots. The current temporary opaque visor will also be replaced with a one-way mirror for a more polished look. The Torso 2 demonstrates Clone’s hardware potential, running hand-coded sequences to control each muscle. With the promise of legs arriving soon, Clone Robotics is inching closer to creating silent, fully humanoid androids—marking a major leap toward lifelike robotic functionality.

This is just crazy! Clone just introduced the Torso 2, a groundbreaking android that sets a new standard for robotics. This advanced prototype features 910 artificial muscle fibers, 164 degrees of freedom, and 182 sensors for precise feedback control, enabling fluid, human-like movement. With an actuated lumbar spine and a full set of abdominal muscles, Torso 2’s design mimics human anatomy for unprecedented natural motion. Encased in a sleek, white transparent skin, the Torso 2 utilizes pneumatic actuation to animate its muscles, though current off-the-shelf valves create some noise due to air exhaust. Clone plans to return to a quieter hydraulic design with custom liquid valves for future bipedal robots. The current temporary opaque visor will also be replaced with a one-way mirror for a more polished look. The Torso 2 demonstrates Clone’s hardware potential, running hand-coded sequences to control each muscle. With the promise of legs arriving soon, Clone Robotics is inching closer to creating silent, fully humanoid androids—marking a major leap toward lifelike robotic functionality.

Ed Krassenstein

29,566 views • 1 year ago