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IKRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA
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Happy Halloween from UKL!
Happy Halloween from KIMLAB!
[ Kinetic Intelligent Machine Lab ]
Happy Halloween from DRAGON Laboratory!
[ DRAGON Lab, University of Tokyo ]
Thank you, Moju!
Happy Halloween from Dexterity Robotics!
[ Agility Robotics ]
Happy Halloween from HEBI Robotics!
[ HEBI Robotics ]
Now you can pay once $500 per month to collect data in your home.
And this is what you expect:
In our test warehouse, we recreate our customers' inbound operations, from dock and conveyor configurations to freight transport and more. Visit our tensile testing center to learn about the latest developments in the field warehouse automation and learn how we deliver reliable, reliable performance in the real world.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
Well, that's just mean. Important, but mean.
[ Istituto Italiano de Tecnologia ]
SpikeATac is a multimodal haptic finger that combines taxelized and highly sensitive dynamic response (PVDF) with a static transduction technique (capacitive) for multimodal touch perception. SpikeATac's multi-stroke PVDF film, named for its “spiky” response, transmits fast and sensitive dynamic signals at the start and break of contact, allowing for quick and gentle stopping when gripping fragile, deformable objects.
[ ROAM Lab, Columbia University ]
Effective integration of diverse sensory representations is critical for reliable robotic manipulation. However, the typical approach to feature fusion is often suboptimal: dominant modalities such as vision may suppress rare but important signals such as touch in high-contact tasks, and a monolithic architecture cannot flexibly incorporate new or missing modalities without retraining. Our method factorizes policy into a set of propagation models, each of which specializes in one representation (e.g., vision or touch), and uses a network of routers that learns consensus weights to adaptively combine their contributions, allowing for the gradual integration of new representations.
[ GitHub ]
Thank you, Haonan!
General-purpose robots must have human-like dexterity and dexterity to perform tasks with the same versatility that we do. The humanoid form factor also allows for the use of rich human-hand interaction data sets. However, the main bottleneck in deft The manipulation lies not only in the software, but perhaps even more so in the hardware. We present the open source ORCA arm, a robust and anthropomorphic tendon-actuated 17 degrees of freedom robotic arm with built-in tactile sensorsfully assembled in less than eight hours and built for less than CHF 2,000.
[ ORCA ]
University of Chicago computer scientist Sarah Sebo programming robots to provide empathetic responses and perform nonverbal social cues such as nodding to better build trust and rapport with people. The goal is to develop robots that can improve productivity in human-robot teamssuch as improving children's learning outcomes.
DJI has robot vacuum cleaner now, and that's okay. As far as I'm concerned, we've reached a point where almost every robot vacuum cleaner (for better or worse) is just good.
[ DJI ]
This EXECUTION The 2025 keynote address is by Angela Schöllig from the Technical University of Munich on the topic “Robotics with Artificial Intelligence”.
[ ICRA 2025 ]
This Carnegie Mellon UniversityRobotics Institute (CMU RI) workshop presented by Nancy Pollard on “Bringing Agility to Robot hands in the real world.”
Dexterous manipulation is a major challenge in robotics, and many of the robotics applications we envision require good manipulation skills. In this overview talk, I will cover some of the major factors that influence dexterity and discuss how we can incorporate them into our robots and systems.
[ CMU RI ]
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