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London Humanoids Summit: 29–30 Might 2025, LONDON
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ETH Robotics Summer School: 21–27 June 2025, GENEVA
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IEEE World Haptics: 8–11 July 2025, SUWON, KOREA
IFAC Symposium on Robotics: 15–18 July 2025, PARIS
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Take pleasure in right this moment’s movies!
I really like the platform and I really like the use case, however this explicit supply technique is… Odd?
[ RIVR ]
That is only the start of what individuals and bodily AI can accomplish collectively. To acknowledge enterprise worth from collaborative robotics, you need to perceive what individuals do properly, what robots do properly—and the way they finest come collectively to create productiveness. DHL and Sturdy.AI are partnering to outline the way forward for human-robot collaboration.
[ Robust AI ]
Teleoperated robotic characters can carry out expressive interactions with people, counting on the operators’ expertise and social instinct. On this work, we suggest to create autonomous interactive robots, by coaching a mannequin to mimic operator information. Our mannequin is skilled on a dataset of human-robot interactions, the place an professional operator is requested to range the interactions and temper of the robotic, whereas the operator instructions in addition to the pose of the human and robotic are recorded.
Introducing THEMIS V2, our all-new full-size humanoid robotic. Standing at 1.6m with 40 DoF, THEMIS V2 now options enhanced 6 DoF arms and superior 7 DoF end-effectors, together with a further body-mounted stereo digicam and as much as 200 TOPS of onboard AI computing energy. These upgrades ship distinctive capabilities in manipulation, notion, and navigation, pushing humanoid robotics to new heights.
[ Westwood ]
BMW x Determine Replace: This isn’t a check setting—it’s actual manufacturing operations. Actual-world robots are advancing our Helix AI and strengthening our end-to-end autonomy to deploy thousands and thousands of robots.
[ Figure ]
On March 13, at WorldMinds 2025, within the Kaufleuten Theater of Zurich, our staff demonstrated for the primary time two autonomous vision-based racing drones. It was an epic journey to organize for this occasion, given the poor lighting situations and the protection constraints of a theater full of greater than 500 individuals! The background display visualizes in real-time the observations of the AI algorithm of every drone. No map, no IMU, no SLAM!
[ University of Zurich (UZH) ]
Unitree releases Dex5 dexterous hand. Single hand with 20 levels of freedom (16 energetic+4 passive). Allow easy backdrivability (direct power management). Geared up with 94 extremely delicate contact factors (non-compulsory).
[ Unitree ]
You may say “real world manipulation” all you need, however till it’s really in the actual world, I’m not shopping for it.
[ 1X ]
Developed by Pudu X-Lab, FlashBot Arm elevates the capabilities of our flagship FlashBot by mixing superior humanoid manipulation and clever supply capabilities, powered by cutting-edge embodied AI. This highly effective mixture permits the robotic to autonomously carry out a variety of duties throughout various settings, together with accommodations, workplace buildings, eating places, retail areas, and healthcare amenities.
[ Pudu Robotics ]
In the event you ever wished to control a trilby with 25 robots, an answer now exists.
[ Paper ] through [ EPFL Reconfigurable Robotics Lab ] revealed by [ IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ]
We’ve been sharing movies from the Suzumori Endo Robotics Lab on the Institute of Science Tokyo for a few years, and Professor Suzumori is now retiring.
Greatest needs to Professor Suzumori!
[ DARPA ]
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured new photographs of a number of mud devils whereas exploring the rim of Jezero Crater on Mars. The biggest mud satan was roughly 210 ft broad (65 meters). On this Mars Report, atmospheric scientist Priya Patel explains what mud devils can educate us about climate situations on the Crimson Planet.
[ NASA ]
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