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ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA
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So, humanoid robots are nearing peak human efficiency. I’d level out, although, that that is probably very removed from peak robot performance, which has but to be successfully exploited, as a result of it requires extra than simply copying people.
[ Unitree ]
“The Avenue Dance of China” Turning lightness into gravity, and rhythm into impression.This can be a head-on collision between steel and beats. This Chinese language New Yr, watch PNDbotics Adam carry the warmth with a distinction.
[ PNDbotics ]
You had me at robotic pandas.
[ MagicLab ]
NASA’s Perseverance rover can now exactly decide its personal location on Mars with out ready for human assist from Earth. That is potential due to a brand new know-how known as Mars International Localization. This know-how quickly compares panoramic photographs from the rover’s navigation cameras with onboard orbital terrain maps. It’s performed with an algorithm that runs on the rover’s Helicopter Base Station processor, which was initially used to speak with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter. In a couple of minutes, the algorithm can pinpoint Perseverance’s place to inside about 10 inches (25 centimeters). The know-how will assist the rover drive farther autonomously and hold exploring.
[ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory ]
Legs? The place we’re going, we don’t want legs!
[ Paper ]
This can be a little bit of a tangent to robotics, nevertheless it will get a move due to the lovable leaping spider footage.
[ Berkeley Lab ]
Corvus One for Chilly Chain is engineered to dwell and function in freezer environments completely, right down to -20°F, whereas sustaining full flight and barcode scanning efficiency.
I’m positive there is a superb purpose for placing a chilly storage facility within the Mojave desert.
[ Corvus Robotics ]
The video paperwork the present progress made within the selecting charge of the Shiva robotic when selecting strawberries. It first reveals the earlier standing, then the additional growth, and eventually the sector check.
[ DFKI ]
Information powers a company’s digital transformation, and ST Engineering MRAS is leveraging Spot to get a full view of vital tools and facility. Working autonomously, Spot collects details about machine well being – and now, due to an integration of the Leica BLK ARC for actuality seize, detailed and correct point cloud knowledge for his or her digital twin.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
The title of this video is “Get out and have enjoyable!” Is that principally what humanoid robots are good for proper now, just about…?
[ Engine AI ]
ASTORINO is a contemporary 6-axis robot based on 3D printing know-how. Programmable in AS-language, it facilitates the preparation of lessons with ready-made educating supplies, is straightforward each to make use of and to restore, and offers the chance to be taught and make errors with out worry of breaking it.
[ Kawasaki ]
Can I get this in my lounge?
[ Yaskawa ]
What does it imply to construct a humanoid robotic in seven months, and the following one in simply 5? This documentary takes you behind the scenes at Humanoid, a UK-based AI and robotics firm constructing dependable, secure, and useful humanoid robots. You’ll hear instantly from our engineering, {hardware}, product, and different groups as they share their views on the journey of turning bodily AI into actuality.
[ Humanoid ]
This IROS 2025 keynote is from Tim Chung who’s now at Microsoft, on “Catalyzing the Way forward for Human, Robotic, and AI Agent Groups within the Bodily World.”
The convergence of applied sciences—from basis AI models to various sensors and actuators to ubiquitous connectivity—is reworking the character of interactions within the bodily and digital world. Folks have accelerated their collaborative connections and productiveness by digital and immersive applied sciences, now not restricted by geography or language or entry. People have additionally leveraged and interacted with AI in many various kinds, with the appearance of hyperscale AI fashions (i.e., large language models) eternally altering (and at an ever-astonishing tempo) the character of human-AI groups, realized on this period of the AI “copilot.” Equally, robotics and automation applied sciences now afford better alternatives to work with and/or close to people, permitting for more and more collaborative bodily robots to dramatically impression real-world actions. It’s the compounding impact of enabling all three capabilities, every complementary to at least one one other in precious methods, and we envision the triad shaped by human-robot-AI groups as revolutionizing the way forward for society, the financial system, and of know-how.
[ IROS 2025 ]
This GRASP SFI discuss is by Chris Paxton at Agility Robotics, on “How Shut Are We To Generalist Humanoid Robots?”
With billions of {dollars} of funding pouring into robotics, general-purpose humanoid robots appear nearer than ever. And positively it feels just like the tempo of robotics is quicker than ever, with a number of corporations starting large-scale deployments of humanoid robots. On this discuss, I’ll go over the challenges nonetheless dealing with scaling robot learning, insights from a 12 months of discussions with researchers everywhere in the world.
[ University of Pennsylvania GRASP Laboratory ]
This week’s CMU RI Seminar is from Jitendra Malik at UC Berkeley, on “Robotic Studying, With Inspiration From Baby Growth.”
For clever robots to change into ubiquitous, we have to “clear up” locomotion, navigation and manipulation at adequate reliability in extensively various environments. In locomotion, we now have demonstrations of humanoid strolling in a wide range of difficult environments. In navigation, we pursued the duty of “Go to Any Factor” – a robotic, on coming into a newly rented Airbnb, ought to be capable to discover objects reminiscent of TV units or potted crops. RL in simulation and sim-to-real have been workhorse applied sciences for us, assisted by a couple of technical improvements. I’ll sketch promising instructions for future work.
[ Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute ]
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