Latest News
- UBTech releases a demo showing dozens of Walker S humanoid robots collaborating on material handling, sorting, and assembly in a Zeekr factory.
- Xense Robotics publishes the Xense_Sim tactile simulation tool and the G1-WS multimodal tactile sensor, now deployed on certain Agibot robots (Connection：Prof. Daolin Ma at Shanghai Jiao Tong University; applications of GelSight).
- Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton win the 2024 Turing Award for their contributions to reinforcement learning.
- Monica.im launches the AI agent Manus，demonstarting multi-task execution output streams (Note: kind of similar to the Devian project；upcoming collaboration with Alibaba Tongyi Qwen).
- D-Robotics unveils MODEST, a vision-based framework for monocular depth estimation and semantic segmentation of transparent objects (Project link: https://github.com/D-Robotics-AI-Lab/MODEST; related datasets: Syn-TODD, Clearpose).
- The 2025 Dexterous Hand Innovation Conference & New Technologies/Product Showcase will be held from March 27th to March 29th in Nanjing; the China Embodied AI Conference (CEAI 2025) runs from March 28th to March 30th in Beijing.
- Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander achieved a soft landing on the Moon on March 2nd.
Featured Projects
- Toyota’s 2019 home-service robot platform, HSR, features a dual-caster omnidirectional drive (Thoughts: The HSR’s overall silhouette strongly resembles Willow Garage’s PR2; it raises questions about how future robotic hardware might adopt a more standardized, modular “platform” approach—akin to the PC or smartphone model, where interchangeable modules and upgrades are the norm. Paper link: https://robomechjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40648-019-0132-3).
- A website summarizing gripper and robotic-hand designs up to 2022 (Link: https://www.robotgrasping.org/).
- Korea’s Naver Labs line-driven dual-arm team released Hyper Leg in 2023( YouTube demo，similar work: Staccatoe).
- Thoughts: Richard Sutton’s 2019 blog post The Bitter Lesson.