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Smart mapping for robots exploring huge areas! ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ This is called Rolling-Bonxai. When a drone or ground robot maps a massive area, say a whole city or massive warehouse, storing the entire map in memory gets expensive fast. You run out of RAM. This solution is simple, only keep...

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Turning video into humanoid robot motion! ๐Ÿคณ๐Ÿผ Training humanoid robots needs huge amounts of motion data, but real-world capture doesnโ€™t scale. Mocap is expensive, dangerous edge cases are rare, and you canโ€™t ask humans to repeatedly fall or crash. Video2Robot tackles this by converting videos into physics-grounded humanoid simulations. Motion is generated to respect balance, inertia, ground contact, and joint limits, then directly retargeted to robot simulators. One prompt can generate a full humanoid motion sequence, including multi-agent interactions and failure cases like falls or collisions, scenarios that are hard or impossible to capture safely in the real world. The pipeline is model-agnostic and works with existing video generators, making it a practical way to scale data for robots. If robots are going to operate in the real world, they need to be trained on the failures too, not just the perfect demos. Here's the GitHub: ~~ โ™ป๏ธ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news โ†’

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We witnessed the raw power of nature yesterday just south of Seward Alaska! It was incredible to watch this massive glacier calving, sending a huge wave through the water. Absolutely breathtaking to see firsthand. Glacial calving is a natural process where large chunks of ice break off from the edge of a glacier. This typically happens at the โ€œterminusโ€ or snout, where the glacier meets the sea, a lake, or even dry land. When these massive pieces of ice fall into the water, they become icebergs, or in smaller pieces, โ€œgrowlersโ€ or โ€œbergy bits.โ€ The process is primarily driven by gravity and the movement of the glacier itself. As a glacier flowsโ€”acting like a slow-moving river of iceโ€”it experiences immense internal stress. When it reaches a point where it is no longer supported by land or where it extends out over the water, the ice becomes unstable. Cracks called crevasses form in the ice, and when these cracks penetrate deep enough, a section of the ice can no longer hold its own weight and snaps off, crashing down with incredible force. Calving is a dynamic and loud phenomenon that often triggers significant waves. It is a normal part of a glacierโ€™s life cycle, and very common in the warmer summer months.

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A 40-year-old patent has finally been brought to life. That's the Y-zipper. A 3D-printed three-sided fastener that transitions any object from flexible to rigid and back again. The robotics application is the one that caught my attention. A quadruped robot that adjusts its leg stiffness depending on terrain, switching between rigid and flexible in real time without additional motors or complex mechanical systems. But this goes way beyond robotics. A wrist cast that loosens during the day and stiffens at night. A tent that pops into shape in 90 seconds instead of six minutes. The idea sat in a patent filing for four decades. It took 3D printing to finally make it real. ~~ โ™ป๏ธ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news โ†’

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The vlog from Pollen Robotics is out! A fantastic visit in Bordeaux to see myself one of the only European humanoids companies. I visited their HQ and saw how they build and test robots. It's great to see the open source approach that is getting more and more people involved in robotics. True democratization of robotics (thanks clem ๐Ÿค—, and Hugging Face)! Here's the link to the vlog: Thanks for such a warm welcome Reachy team!๐Ÿ’› ~~ โ™ป๏ธ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news โ†’
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The vlog from Pollen Robotics is out! A fantastic visit in Bordeaux to see myself one of the only European humanoids companies. I visited their HQ and saw how they build and test robots. It's great to see the open source approach that is getting more and more people involved in robotics. True democratization of robotics (thanks clem ๐Ÿค—, and Hugging Face)! Here's the link to the vlog: Thanks for such a warm welcome Reachy team!๐Ÿ’› ~~ โ™ป๏ธ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news โ†’

Lukas Ziegler

10,365 views โ€ข 7 months ago

Finally, someone automating the boring infrastructure stuff! ๐ŸซŸ Road markings is tough. Nobody cares about them until they're gone. Then suddenly everyone's mad. But someone has to paint those lines, in traffic, in bad weather, repetitively. So 10LINES built a robot that just... does it. Workers don't have to stand in live traffic anymore. Digital mapping. Data-driven operations. The robot knows what it painted and where. Quite productive I would say :) This is the stuff nobody talks about in robotics. Not sexy like other embodiements, but a robot handling infrastructure work that's dangerous and tedious. Roads, parking lots, tunnels, all need this. ~~ โ™ป๏ธ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news โ†’
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Finally, someone automating the boring infrastructure stuff! ๐ŸซŸ Road markings is tough. Nobody cares about them until they're gone. Then suddenly everyone's mad. But someone has to paint those lines, in traffic, in bad weather, repetitively. So 10LINES built a robot that just... does it. Workers don't have to stand in live traffic anymore. Digital mapping. Data-driven operations. The robot knows what it painted and where. Quite productive I would say :) This is the stuff nobody talks about in robotics. Not sexy like other embodiements, but a robot handling infrastructure work that's dangerous and tedious. Roads, parking lots, tunnels, all need this. ~~ โ™ป๏ธ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news โ†’

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This robot is playing Tetris! ๐ŸงŠ AGILOX dropped something exciting at LogiMAT. One of the most requested robot use cases finally automated: Manual truck loading. What I'm really impressed of is the high precision positioning of pallets directly next to the truck or container wall. It's 2026 and I love that fact that AMR companies are not just moving goods from A to B anymore, but they innovate and look for more value-adding tasks across logistics sites and manufacturing plants! ~~ โ™ป๏ธ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news โ†’

Lukas Ziegler

11,998 views โ€ข 3 months ago

This robot explores the world like a mouse! ๐Ÿ That's an OG project, guess the year ;) A mouse-inspired bot called WhiskEye travels the world with 24 artificial whiskers and spiking neurons that mimic a nervous system. Recognizing familiar places is essential for engineering applications like robot navigation, where interactions with the real world are key. Combining information from multiple senses helps to make better accuracy and robustness, but challenges like mismatched data and sensor errors complicate this process. Inspired by how animals navigate seamlessly, researchers developed predictive coding, a self-supervised learning method based on the brain's visual cortex model. It combines visual and tactile cues from a robot, outperforming existing methods in recognizing places, even when some sensors fail. What a great project from BristolRoboticsLab and Sheffield Robotics! ~~ โ™ป๏ธ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news โ†’
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This robot explores the world like a mouse! ๐Ÿ That's an OG project, guess the year ;) A mouse-inspired bot called WhiskEye travels the world with 24 artificial whiskers and spiking neurons that mimic a nervous system. Recognizing familiar places is essential for engineering applications like robot navigation, where interactions with the real world are key. Combining information from multiple senses helps to make better accuracy and robustness, but challenges like mismatched data and sensor errors complicate this process. Inspired by how animals navigate seamlessly, researchers developed predictive coding, a self-supervised learning method based on the brain's visual cortex model. It combines visual and tactile cues from a robot, outperforming existing methods in recognizing places, even when some sensors fail. What a great project from BristolRoboticsLab and Sheffield Robotics! ~~ โ™ป๏ธ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news โ†’

Lukas Ziegler

36,775 views โ€ข 6 months ago