Latest News

1. A group from Peking University team and Galbot release the QuadWBG framework, introducing a universal directional reachability map for mobile grasping tasks to enhance whole-body operation generalization of a robotic arm mounted on a B1 quadruped robot (Keywords: reinforcement learning, motion planning, generalized grasping; project link: https://quadwbg.github.io/).
2. Unitree releases the Dex5 five-finger force-controlled dexterous hand (20 DoF: 16 active, 4 passive), demonstrating tasks such as object tossing and page turning (Demo link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1gCZbYJEMy; Thoughts: the 4-DoF thumb appears to use Dynamixel direct-drive servos).
3. A team from HKUST(Guangzhou) proposes the Falcon trajectory-prediction algorithm, achieving long-term dynamic obstacle avoidance and improved navigation performance in social navigation scenarios (Project link: https://zeying-gong.github.io/projects/falcon/; related datasets: Social-HM3D, Social-MP3D).
4. Pudu Robotics releases the FlashBot Arm humanoid robot, featuring a lift-able 7-DoF dual-arm setup and the 11-DoF PUDU DH11 dexterous hand, designed for hotel service scenarios(Link: https://www.pudutech.com/zh-CN/products/flashbot-arm).
5. Vivo establishes their Robotics Lab, planning to launch home-scene robotic products within three years, leveraging a home-use large model (70B Lanxin platform), shared supply chain, AR headset devices, and more (Detailed report: https://www.vivo.com.cn/brand/news/detail?id=1299).
6. RoboSense releases the AC1 multi-sensor integrated camera and series of open-source ecosystem tools, offering SLAM, localization, object detection and recognition, semantic segmentation, and point-cloud/vision fusion algorithms (Link: https://www.robosense.ai/rslidar/AC1).

Featured Projects

1. Open Duck Mini, an open-source project replicating and miniaturizing Disney’s BDX droid robot (Project link: https://github.com/apirrone/Open_Duck_Mini).
2. Anyskin, a magnetic tactile sensor by CMU and NYU teams that requires no adhesive and is easily replaceable, suitable for slip detection and policy learning (Project link: https://any-skin.github.io/ ;related projects: D’Manus, LEAP Hand, DIGIT, ReSkin).
3. A team at Zhejiang University releases a purely simulation learning framework for pseudo-tactile feedback collaboration, aimed at eliminating gripper-state ambiguities in grasping tasks (Project link: https://yifei-y.github.io/project-pages/Pseudo-Tactile-Feedback/).
4. An analytical article on motion control mechanisms for humanoid robot knee and ankle joints (Paper link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.22459).