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Robot Spins Down 150 Metres, Rights Itself and Sails on Wind

Robot Spins Down 150 Metres, Rights Itself and Sails on Wind

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Robot Turns Minutes of Human Play Into Hours of Solo Practice

Robot Turns Minutes of Human Play Into Hours of Solo Practice

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System Detects Smoke-Degraded LiDAR and Shifts Localization to Radar

System Detects Smoke-Degraded LiDAR and Shifts Localization to Radar

Ukraine Says Drone Links Dropped at 110 Km/h as Missions Were Cancelled

Ukraine Says Drone Links Dropped at 110 Km/h as Missions Were Cancelled

Humanoid Tucks a Box Under Its Arm and Carries It From Shelf to Table

Humanoid Tucks a Box Under Its Arm and Carries It From Shelf to Table

Steertuning Claims a Robot Learns Tasks From Five Human Videos in Under Five Minutes

Steertuning Claims a Robot Learns Tasks From Five Human Videos in Under Five Minutes

Robot Reshapes Its Wheels to Cut Sunlit Depth Gaps From 48% to 18%

Robot Reshapes Its Wheels to Cut Sunlit Depth Gaps From 48% to 18%

Robot Vacuum's Deployable Plate Held 50 Newtons With Motor Off

Robot Vacuum's Deployable Plate Held 50 Newtons With Motor Off

Two Humanoids Sustain More Than 10 Alternating Table-Tennis Strikes

Two Humanoids Sustain More Than 10 Alternating Table-Tennis Strikes

Robot Transfers Contact Behaviors From a Single Demonstration

Robot Transfers Contact Behaviors From a Single Demonstration

MagCilia Tracks 3D Forces and Distinguishes Six Surface Categories

MagCilia Tracks 3D Forces and Distinguishes Six Surface Categories

4-Bit Robot Policy Reaches Full-Precision Mean Score With QCRL

4-Bit Robot Policy Reaches Full-Precision Mean Score With QCRL

Perseverance Sets Mars Rover Distance Record at 45.22 Kilometers

Perseverance Sets Mars Rover Distance Record at 45.22 Kilometers

48-Centimeter Biped Walks With a Smartphone as Its Brain

48-Centimeter Biped Walks With a Smartphone as Its Brain

FAVOR Checks Robot Execution Against Its Predicted Future

FAVOR Checks Robot Execution Against Its Predicted Future

Two Quadrotors Transport a Load as Cable Slides Through Its Hook

Two Quadrotors Transport a Load as Cable Slides Through Its Hook

Water-Pumping Worm Robot Climbs Steps Up to 15 Centimeters High

Water-Pumping Worm Robot Climbs Steps Up to 15 Centimeters High

Four Flexible Fiber Motors Lift 46-Gram Chocolate Bar in Lab

Four Flexible Fiber Motors Lift 46-Gram Chocolate Bar in Lab

Fin Ray Gripper Uses Visible Deformation to Guide Action Selection

Fin Ray Gripper Uses Visible Deformation to Guide Action Selection

Unitree Go2 Had Regular Critical Failures on 25-Degree Roof Test

Unitree Go2 Had Regular Critical Failures on 25-Degree Roof Test

Best Agent Succeeds in 23% of RoboQuest Episodes

Best Agent Succeeds in 23% of RoboQuest Episodes

One-Gram Hopping Robot Still Requires Wired Power

One-Gram Hopping Robot Still Requires Wired Power

CrowdOcc Targets Occlusion in Crowded Indoor Scenes for Quadrupeds

CrowdOcc Targets Occlusion in Crowded Indoor Scenes for Quadrupeds

SimVLA Preprint Claims Zero-Shot Transfer to Physical Household Tasks

SimVLA Preprint Claims Zero-Shot Transfer to Physical Household Tasks