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Multi legged robots built for tough terrain! 🐛 Unlike wheeled or long-legged machines that stall in cluttered fields, their multi legged design provides stable, low-profile locomotion through confined and unstructured environments. The robots from Ground Control Robotics move close to the ground, giving direct access to crops while carrying...

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🤖 When wheels and legs fail, evolution takes over. I find this fascinating — Ground Control Robotics, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology, is rethinking how robots move through the world. Instead of wheels or rigid legs, they’ve developed elongated multi-legged robots that can navigate cluttered, uneven, and confined spaces — places where traditional machines simply can’t operate. The potential is enormous: 🌾 Agriculture — working across unstructured farmland 🛡️ Defense — operating in complex terrain 🚨 Search and Rescue — reaching areas humans can’t 🐜 Pest Control — precise movement through tight environments It’s a reminder that innovation often begins where limitations appear — when we stop forcing machines to move like us, and start letting them move better than us. Could this be the next big leap in robotic mobility? #AI #Innovation #Technology #Robotics #Engineering #Automation #Agriculture #FutureOfWork Credits: Supriya Rathi
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🤖 When wheels and legs fail, evolution takes over. I find this fascinating — Ground Control Robotics, in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology, is rethinking how robots move through the world. Instead of wheels or rigid legs, they’ve developed elongated multi-legged robots that can navigate cluttered, uneven, and confined spaces — places where traditional machines simply can’t operate. The potential is enormous: 🌾 Agriculture — working across unstructured farmland 🛡️ Defense — operating in complex terrain 🚨 Search and Rescue — reaching areas humans can’t 🐜 Pest Control — precise movement through tight environments It’s a reminder that innovation often begins where limitations appear — when we stop forcing machines to move like us, and start letting them move better than us. Could this be the next big leap in robotic mobility? #AI #Innovation #Technology #Robotics #Engineering #Automation #Agriculture #FutureOfWork Credits: Supriya Rathi

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87,158 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

Japan Just Built a HouseBot You Control Without Speaking and It Changes Everything! Donut Robotics has officially unveiled its first bipedal humanoid, Cinnamon 1, and instead of focusing on louder voices or bigger motors, the company went in the opposite direction. Silence. Cinnamon 1 introduces what Donut Robotics calls Silent Gesture Control, a system that allows the humanoid to be guided using simple hand and finger movements rather than spoken commands. This approach feels especially well suited for real world environments where traditional voice control falls apart. Busy factory floors. Construction sites filled with constant noise. Even quiet indoor settings where voice commands feel awkward or intrusive. It also opens the door for far more accessible human robot interaction, particularly for users with impairments. While the current Cinnamon 1 hardware is built on an OEM platform, the intelligence driving it is where Donut Robotics is placing its long term bet. The team is actively developing custom Vision Language Action AI that allows the robot to interpret what it sees, understand intent, and respond with physical action. The goal is not just smarter robots, but robots that feel more natural. Even more ambitious is the company’s plan for full domestic production. Donut Robotics has stated its intention to localize both manufacturing and AI development in Japan, reinforcing the country’s reputation for precision engineering and thoughtful robotics design. If timelines hold, Cinnamon 1 units are expected to begin deployment in factories and construction environments by the end of 2026. That puts this humanoid squarely in the category of near term reality rather than distant concept. The takeaway is simple but important. As humanoid robots move out of labs and into daily work environments, the winners may not be the loudest or flashiest machines. They may be the ones that understand us without a word being spoken.
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Japan Just Built a HouseBot You Control Without Speaking and It Changes Everything! Donut Robotics has officially unveiled its first bipedal humanoid, Cinnamon 1, and instead of focusing on louder voices or bigger motors, the company went in the opposite direction. Silence. Cinnamon 1 introduces what Donut Robotics calls Silent Gesture Control, a system that allows the humanoid to be guided using simple hand and finger movements rather than spoken commands. This approach feels especially well suited for real world environments where traditional voice control falls apart. Busy factory floors. Construction sites filled with constant noise. Even quiet indoor settings where voice commands feel awkward or intrusive. It also opens the door for far more accessible human robot interaction, particularly for users with impairments. While the current Cinnamon 1 hardware is built on an OEM platform, the intelligence driving it is where Donut Robotics is placing its long term bet. The team is actively developing custom Vision Language Action AI that allows the robot to interpret what it sees, understand intent, and respond with physical action. The goal is not just smarter robots, but robots that feel more natural. Even more ambitious is the company’s plan for full domestic production. Donut Robotics has stated its intention to localize both manufacturing and AI development in Japan, reinforcing the country’s reputation for precision engineering and thoughtful robotics design. If timelines hold, Cinnamon 1 units are expected to begin deployment in factories and construction environments by the end of 2026. That puts this humanoid squarely in the category of near term reality rather than distant concept. The takeaway is simple but important. As humanoid robots move out of labs and into daily work environments, the winners may not be the loudest or flashiest machines. They may be the ones that understand us without a word being spoken.

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LIGHTYEAR ROBOTICS has officially launched the M1, their first wheeled-legged robot. The M1 utilizes a self-developed parallel joint drive module, achieving a 40% efficiency increase over traditional structures while keeping the body lightweight. The design balances two core performance features: off-road mobility and high-speed cruising, enabling it to navigate complex environments like grass, gravel, and steep slopes using its all-scenario intelligent perception and autonomous navigation system. The robot is primarily aimed at enterprise applications, providing unmanned and highly reliable solutions for tasks ranging from outdoor inspection and emergency detection to material transport in challenging environments. #AI #HumanoidRobot #EmbodiedAI
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Been experimenting with procedural locomotion on #GaussianSplat environments from World Labs . Built a little multi-legged robot in Unity that raycasts against the splat data to figure out where to place its feet, no meshes or colliders involved... Pretty fun to climb surfaces, walk on walls, and set a weird number of legs on the fly :) Still rough around the edges but pretty fun to watch it figure things out. #GaussianSplatting #Unity3D #WorldLabs #ProceduralAnimation
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Wevolver

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458,641 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

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Zhang Heqing

11,384 просмотров • 1 год назад

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🇨🇭 BADMINTON-BOT TAKES THE COURT IN SWITZERLAND A Swiss team built a four-legged robot that plays badminton against humans and actually returns shots like it means it. Created with ETH Zurich, this bot uses artificial intelligence to teach itself how to move, see, and hit the shuttlecock with freakish precision. It learns through reinforcement learning which is a fancy way of saying it fails over and over until it figures things out. A special vision system helps it track the birdie while running around like a robot goat with a grudge. It even adjusts its movement to avoid messing up its own view. Researcher, Yuntao Ma: "We believe that this project demonstrates the potential of artificial intelligence to advance legged robots in complex tasks, paving the way for advances in autonomous and intelligent systems, including humanoids. The control algorithm generalizes to other robotic platforms such as humanoids, as well as to other tasks such as search and rescue and home services." Source: Telegrafi Media Source: The Independent On Youtube

Mario Nawfal

76,687 просмотров • 1 год назад

Ground squirrels are agile, alert, and highly social animals that thrive in open fields and grasslands. Unlike tree-dwelling squirrels, ground squirrels dig extensive burrow systems where they live in colonies, offering protection from predators and harsh weather. Known for their keen sense of awareness, they are always on the lookout for danger, often standing on their hind legs to get a better view of their surroundings. These burrows not only serve as homes but also as food storage sites, where ground squirrels stash seeds, nuts, and other resources to survive through winter months. While they’re small, ground squirrels play a vital role in the ecosystem, aerating the soil with their digging and serving as prey for a variety of predators. Their ability to adapt to different environments makes them a resilient and important species in maintaining the balance of their habitats.
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Ground squirrels are agile, alert, and highly social animals that thrive in open fields and grasslands. Unlike tree-dwelling squirrels, ground squirrels dig extensive burrow systems where they live in colonies, offering protection from predators and harsh weather. Known for their keen sense of awareness, they are always on the lookout for danger, often standing on their hind legs to get a better view of their surroundings. These burrows not only serve as homes but also as food storage sites, where ground squirrels stash seeds, nuts, and other resources to survive through winter months. While they’re small, ground squirrels play a vital role in the ecosystem, aerating the soil with their digging and serving as prey for a variety of predators. Their ability to adapt to different environments makes them a resilient and important species in maintaining the balance of their habitats.

Global Statistics

50,560 просмотров • 1 год назад

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed "legged metamachines," a new class of modular robots whose unique physical forms were evolved entirely by artificial intelligence. Rather than following traditional human-engineered blueprints, the researchers used AI to "grow" novel body configurations in a computer simulation, resulting in strange new "species" that move like seals, lizards, or kangaroos. These AI-driven designs bypass standard dog- or human-like structures to create machines that no human engineer would have conceived. The machines are composed of autonomous, Lego-like modules, each containing its own motor, battery, and computer. While individual modules can move on their own, their true agility and near-indestructibility emerge through the AI-evolved architecture that allows them to function as a collective. Because the design is inherently modular, these robots can survive catastrophic damage that would be fatal to traditional machines. Broken parts do not become dead weight; instead, the AI-designed system allows them to keep rolling or crawling independently to rejoin the team. Lead researcher Sam Kriegman notes that these are the first robots to step outdoors after evolving inside a computer. They can survive being cut into pieces, as every separated module remains an individual agent capable of continuing its journey. The study, conducted at the McCormick School of Engineering, was co-authored by Kriegman and PhD students Chen Yu, David Matthews, and Jingxian Wang.
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Researchers at Northwestern University have developed "legged metamachines," a new class of modular robots whose unique physical forms were evolved entirely by artificial intelligence. Rather than following traditional human-engineered blueprints, the researchers used AI to "grow" novel body configurations in a computer simulation, resulting in strange new "species" that move like seals, lizards, or kangaroos. These AI-driven designs bypass standard dog- or human-like structures to create machines that no human engineer would have conceived. The machines are composed of autonomous, Lego-like modules, each containing its own motor, battery, and computer. While individual modules can move on their own, their true agility and near-indestructibility emerge through the AI-evolved architecture that allows them to function as a collective. Because the design is inherently modular, these robots can survive catastrophic damage that would be fatal to traditional machines. Broken parts do not become dead weight; instead, the AI-designed system allows them to keep rolling or crawling independently to rejoin the team. Lead researcher Sam Kriegman notes that these are the first robots to step outdoors after evolving inside a computer. They can survive being cut into pieces, as every separated module remains an individual agent capable of continuing its journey. The study, conducted at the McCormick School of Engineering, was co-authored by Kriegman and PhD students Chen Yu, David Matthews, and Jingxian Wang.

Michał Podlewski

14,954 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Robora is expanding into academia. We’ve begun working with university researchers in robotics, bringing expertise in areas such as SLAM, multi-modal perception, and motion planning into our ecosystem. The progress can be tracked live on our Github Repo: More and more researchers are joining our initiative as we speak. Their research feeds directly into Robora’s decentralized infrastructure, where modules for detection, segmentation, and control can be deployed across autonomous systems. This collaboration accelerates our path from academic labs to large-scale deployment, building a foundation where robots can operate, learn, and coordinate through Robora. In the future, we’ll also create opportunities for the community to engage directly with these researchers as the collaboration deepens.
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Robora is expanding into academia. We’ve begun working with university researchers in robotics, bringing expertise in areas such as SLAM, multi-modal perception, and motion planning into our ecosystem. The progress can be tracked live on our Github Repo: More and more researchers are joining our initiative as we speak. Their research feeds directly into Robora’s decentralized infrastructure, where modules for detection, segmentation, and control can be deployed across autonomous systems. This collaboration accelerates our path from academic labs to large-scale deployment, building a foundation where robots can operate, learn, and coordinate through Robora. In the future, we’ll also create opportunities for the community to engage directly with these researchers as the collaboration deepens.

Robora

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A Breakthrough in Robotics: Spherical Gears Enter Mass Production Spherical gears, the kind of joint that would allow a robot to move like a human shoulder, have been notoriously difficult to manufacture with high precision. That's changing, thanks to a new design and a path to mass production that could have a huge impact on robotics. The breakthrough comes from a new design called the ABENICS spherical gear, developed by researchers at Yamagata University. This innovative mechanism enables a joint to move in three degrees of freedom without the slippage issues of earlier designs. It achieves this by using a "cross-spherical gear" that meshes with one or more "monopole gears." Mass production is now on the horizon. Although the initial manufacturing of the gears was inefficient, Nissei Corporation improved the process and established the necessary technology. The companies Kanematsu and Nissei have now entered the marketing phase, with production expected to begin in 2027. The impact of this technology is significant. Mass-produced spherical gears are expected to enable highly versatile and efficient robotic limbs. ► Humanoid and Mobile Robots: The design allows for compact, high-torque ball joints ideal for creating versatile and efficient robotic limbs. ► Aerospace: Potential applications include deployment mechanisms for satellite solar panels. ► Other Industries: The technology is also being explored for its potential to enhance productivity in healthcare, nursing care, and restaurants.
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A Breakthrough in Robotics: Spherical Gears Enter Mass Production Spherical gears, the kind of joint that would allow a robot to move like a human shoulder, have been notoriously difficult to manufacture with high precision. That's changing, thanks to a new design and a path to mass production that could have a huge impact on robotics. The breakthrough comes from a new design called the ABENICS spherical gear, developed by researchers at Yamagata University. This innovative mechanism enables a joint to move in three degrees of freedom without the slippage issues of earlier designs. It achieves this by using a "cross-spherical gear" that meshes with one or more "monopole gears." Mass production is now on the horizon. Although the initial manufacturing of the gears was inefficient, Nissei Corporation improved the process and established the necessary technology. The companies Kanematsu and Nissei have now entered the marketing phase, with production expected to begin in 2027. The impact of this technology is significant. Mass-produced spherical gears are expected to enable highly versatile and efficient robotic limbs. ► Humanoid and Mobile Robots: The design allows for compact, high-torque ball joints ideal for creating versatile and efficient robotic limbs. ► Aerospace: Potential applications include deployment mechanisms for satellite solar panels. ► Other Industries: The technology is also being explored for its potential to enhance productivity in healthcare, nursing care, and restaurants.

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