Latest News

1. Robot Era and a group from Tsinghua IIIS have proposed the Video Prediction Policy (VPP) for general-purpose generative robot strategies. It enhances the predictive visual representation of video diffusion models (Project link: https://video-prediction-policy.github.io/).
2. A team from Peking University has released DexGarmentLab, a dual-arm soft manipulation environment. They proposed a hierarchical garment manipulation strategy (HALO) and an automated data collection pipeline based on word expert demonstrations, significantly improving simulation for flexible clothing handling (Project link: https://wayrise.github.io/DexGarmentLab/ ;Previous work link(GarmentLab)).
3. Startup Sharpa unveiled its dexterous hand SharpaWave at ICRA 2025 (Official link: https://www.sharpa.com/ ;thoughts: The company is associated with Daliegu Technology(大裂谷科技) and Hesai Technology, and has open positions in Singapore and Shanghai — worth keeping an eye on.).
4. The CeiliX team from Germany released InfinityCranes, an omnidirectional ceiling-mounted lifting robot. It integrates a 7-axis arm from Kassow Robots with a ctrlX controller from Bosch Rexroth, enabling omnidirectional transport of up to 250 kg (Official link: https://ceilix.com/).
5. Startup Dyna Robotics introduced its foundational model DYNA-1, which achieved a 99.4% success rate in a 24-hour autonomous napkin-folding task. It demonstrates robust and high-performance continuous operation in real-world environments (Project link: https://www.dyna.co/research).
6. A team from EPFL proposed Open Parametric Hand, a hand design framework that evaluates and compares the stability and range of motion across multiple hand structures (Project link: https://github.com/kg398/100_fingers ;paper link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.ads6437).

Featured Projects

1. The first episode of AgileX Studio, an academic interview series by AgileX Robotics, features Prof. Zhou Boyu from SUSTech sharing his thoughts on the path toward embodied intelligence (Video link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1LRJHz9EGn).
2. RoboTamer, an open-source, low-cost 3D-printed biped robot using 11 Unitree 8010 motors (Introduction page: https://www.unifolm.com/#/post/735 ;project link: https://vsislab.github.io/RoboTamer/).
3. A project controlling the SO-ARM100 robotic arm using large language model function calling (Demo link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1HQjEzEEK5 ,project link: https://bambot.org/).
4. K-Bot, a low-cost open-source bipedal robot by K-Scale Lab, priced at $8999 (Product page: https://shop.kscale.dev/products/kbot ;Docs link: https://docs.kscale.dev/docs/getting-started ;thoughts: This lab also created the Zeroth-01, which was featured in one February robotics weekly report).