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Current multicopter drones ensure simplicity, accessibility and ease of use; however, their main limitation is their low payload-to-weight ratio, which is typically 1:1 or less. DARPA The Lift Challenge aims to break the bottleneck in the heavy lifting industry by seeking new drone designs that can carry payloads up to four times their weight, revolutionizing the way we use drones across all sectors.
[ DARPA ]
A huge milestone has been achieved! World's first mass delivery humanoid robots finished! Hundreds UBTECH Walker S2 has been delivered to our partners.
I really hope that's not how they actually sell their robots.
[ UBTECH ]
There is absolutely no reason to give robot hands if you could just teach them how to lasso instead.
[ ArcLab ]
Saddle Creek hired Carter to fill orders for a beauty salon client. It helps automate and streamline product delivery operations across multiple processing and labeling lines and over 20 designated pickup points. In this capacity, Carter acts as a flexible, non-integrated “virtual conveyor” that optimizes material flow without requiring fixed infrastructure.
[ Robust.ai ]
This is our latest work on an air-ground robotic team, the first time the language-vision hierarchy enables long-range navigation and manipulation in real life. UAV + quadruped using only 2D cameras. Article published open access in Advanced Intelligent systems.
[ DRAGON Lab ]
Thank you, Moju!
I'm pretty sure you shouldn't use four-legged robot transport the child. But I’m just almost sure, not quite sure.
[ DEEP Robotics ]
Building behavioral Foundation models (BFM) for humanoid robots has the potential to integrate diverse control tasks under a single, fast, and universal policy. However, existing approaches either apply exclusively to simulated humanoid characters or specialize in specific tasks such as tracking. We propose BFM-Zero, a framework that learns an efficient shared latent representation that embeds motions, goals, and rewards in a common space, allowing a single policy to be queried across multiple downstream tasks without retraining.
[ BFM-Zero ]
Welcome to the very, very near future of manual labor.
[ AgileX ]
MOMO (Mobile Object Manipulation Operator) has been one of KIMLAB's key robots since its development about two years ago and has appeared as a protagonist in several of our videos. MOMO's design and functionality were recently published in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine.
We are very pleased to add new robots to our fleet! As a shared resource for our faculty, this robot will facilitate numerous research efforts at our institute that are targeted for significant future funding. We will initially focus on this robot for agricultural applications, but we have big plans to use the robot in human-robot interaction projects.
[ Ingenuity Labs ]
The best part about robots picking grapes in vineyards is that they don't just eat grapes like I do.
[ Extend Robotics ]
How mobile mobile manipulator do you need?
Robotics professor Dr. Christian Hubicki talks about the announcement of the humanoid NEO on October 29, 2025. While explaining the technical elements and the readiness of the product, he refuses to show any emotion.
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