Latest News

1. Andrej Karpathy gave a talk at Y Combinator’s AI Startup School, exploring how LLMs can be used for software refactoring. (Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ).
2. A team from NYU released an open-source magnetic tactile sensor called eFlesh, along with a slip detection model. It achieves 0.5 mm contact localization accuracy, 0.27 N force prediction error in the z-axis, and 0.12 N in the x/y-plane (Project link: https://e-flesh.com/).
3. Researchers at UC Berkeley unveiled EyeRobot, a robotic system with a mechanically actuated eyeball that uses reinforcement learning to learn gaze behaviors (Project link: https://www.eyerobot.net/).
4. A group from Stanford introduced DexUMI, a human-in-the-loop data collection and policy learning framework. It boasts an average task success rate of 86%, and has now open-sourced the associated hardware designs (Project link: https://dex-umi.github.io/ ;hardware docs: https://dex-umi.github.io/tutorial/hardware.html).
5. Disney Research proposed a quaternion-based method for simulating constrained rigid body dynamics, unifying multiple joint types, redundant constraints, and overactuated systems (Demo link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clHoSEbWjlQ ;paper link).
6. Huawei Cloud introduced CloudRobo at the 2025 Huawei Developer Conference. This embodied AI platform offers full-stack capabilities, including data synthesis, model training, simulation, deployment, and safety compliance. Several dual-arm collaborative tasks were demonstrated live (Official website: https://www.huaweicloud.com/product/octopus/robo.html ;Note: Robots used in the demo were provided by Flexiv Robotics).
7. D-Robotics launched the RDK S100, a single-SoC robot development kit priced at ¥2,499 (Demo link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1mkNjz4EmZ ;product page: https://developer.d-robotics.cc/rdks100).
8. Swedish tech company Hexagon introduced its humanoid robot Aeon (Product page: https://robotics.hexagon.com/product/ ;Reuters coverage, NVIDIA blog).
9. Google Research & Google DeepMind released SensorLM, a foundation model trained on 59.7 million hours of data from over 103,000 people. SensorLM demonstrates strong performance in zero-shot recognition, few-shot learning, and cross-modal retrieval (Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09108v1).

Featured Projects

1. Pixi, a package manager developed by the Mamba team, built on the conda and conda-forge ecosystem. Ideal for reproducible scientific environments (Project link: https://github.com/prefix-dev/pixi ;docs: https://pixi.sh/dev/switching_from/conda/).
2. StepBot, a $39 desktop companion robot using magnetic swappable parts and coreless brushless motors (Project link: https://www.palmblock.com/ ;unboxing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuXHqZppnF8).
3. A collection of robot-related websites compiled by Marco Mascorro, a robotics researcher and a partner at a16z (Project link: https://www.mascobot.com/cool_robots.html).
4. A showcase of 5 robot+LLM demos by Tongji Zihao Xiong (同济子豪兄) at the 2025 Zhangjiang Embodied Intelligence Developer Conference (Demo link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV162TezeEsw ;Note: These demos were also shown in his May talk at the Chinese Academy of Sciences).
5. JQ Industries (矩桥工业) demonstrated a fabric-based e-skin, capable of full-body sensing for robots, including torso, feet, and dexterous hands (Product page: http://jq-industries.com/elementor-3261/ ; note: estimated resolution is about 1 cm，demo link).