Latest News

1. Universal Robots releases its newest collaborative robot, the UR15, featuring a maximum TCP speed of 5 m/s (News link: https://www.universal-robots.com/2025/productlaunch-china/ ；product page: https://www.universal-robots.com/products/ur15/).
2. JAKA Robotics unveils its 12‑DoF JAKA Lumi mobile platform, priced at ¥79,800 (Demo link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1XeE2znEdG).
3. AgiBot publishes the Lingxi X2 demo video, showcasing Q&A interaction, gait learning, and more functions (Demo link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1BxEWztE1z ;note: the video’s end teases the wheeled‑leg multimodal robot X2‑N).
4. Differential Robotics, the aerial‑robotics startup founded by Professor Fei Gao of Zhejiang University, secures angel‑round funding.
5. A team from UIUC releases DoorBot, a tactile‑perception‑driven hierarchical closed‑loop control framework that demonstrates robust generalization across real‑world door‑opening tasks(Project link: https://tx-leo.github.io/DoorBot/).
6. A group from Tsinghua University publishes EasyCalib, a simple, low‑cost in‑situ calibration rig for visuotactile sensor force reconstruction (Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10256).
7. Unitree Robotics will host its first robot‑combat tournament in Hangzhou in late May (Promotion video link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1cHE2z8EWa).
8. A group from Renmin University of China proposes Being‑M0, a general action‑generation framework, and constructs the million‑scale MotionLib dataset from internet videos (Project link: https://beingbeyond.github.io/Being-M0/).
9. A group from UIUC introduces Tool‑as‑Interface, a framework for transferring human tool‑usage knowledge to robots (Project link: https://tool-as-interface.github.io/).

Featured Projects

1. Ragtime Panthera, an open‑source six‑axis robotic arm with gravity compensation, MoveIt integration, and drag‑teaching support (Project link: https://github.com/KelvinLauMiau/Ragtime_Panthera ;demo link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1nCVjzNEoW).
2. Does Embodied AI Need to Start with ImageNet?, an article by Galaxea AI founder Huazhe Xu on Zhihu (Article link: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/1906157729292219201).
3. Embodied Intelligence: A Scientific Expedition Requiring Humility and Patience, an article by SUSTech Professor Boyu Zhou on Zhihu (Article link: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/1906835485990565345).
4. Dexterity‑Aha‑Guide, a comprehensive project introducing dexterous‑hand structures and manipulation techniques (Project link: https://github.com/Wu-Fisher/dexterity-aha-guide).
5. The Side Hustle from Hell, a blog post by a developer reflecting on lessons learned after leaving a startup (Article link: https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/the-side-hustle-from-hell).
6. MIT team’s differentiable simulator, estimating object weight and compliance via internal sensors using NVIDIA’s Warp library (Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03920).