Latest News

1. Unitree Robotics has teased a new 26-DoF robot product, with an estimated price below $9000.
2. Physical Intelligence released a method for continuous-action VLAs, achieving fast training, strong semantic generalization, and precise motion control—without sacrificing pretrained network capacity (Post link: https://www.physicalintelligence.company/research/knowledge_insulation ; paper link).
3. Pollen Robotics launched Reachy Mini, an open-source desktop robot focused on voice interaction and AI application testing, with a cost of around $250 (Demo link: https://x.com/Thom_Wolf/status/1928103448970473962 ;Note: same neck joint configuration as Reachy 2).
4. Carolina Parada, Head of Robotics at Google, appeared on the Google DeepMind Podcast to discuss progress in multimodal understanding and embodied reasoning (Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgwty6dGsYI).
5. Hugging Face introduced SmolVLA, a small-scale open-source VLA model with only 450 million parameters and asynchronous inference, trainable on a single GPU (Project link: https://huggingface.co/blog/smolvla ;paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01844).
6. The 2025 China Robotics and Intelligence Conference & Annual Meeting of the Intelligent Robotics Committee of CAA will be held in Beijing from June 13 to 15, 2025 (Registration link: https://www.cacpaper.com/register/132/user/preRegist).
7. A group from Stanford University released DexMachina, a curriculum-based framework for long-horizon, bimanual manipulation tasks involving articulated objects (Project link: https://project-dexmachina.github.io/).
8. A team from LMU Munich introduced the AmbiK dataset, designed for ambiguous tasks in kitchen environments. It includes environment descriptions, clarification Q&A, user intents, and task plans, covering 2000 tasks (Dataset link: https://github.com/cog-model/AmbiK-dataset/ ;paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04089).
9. Wandercraft, a French exoskeleton company, unveiled the Calvin-40, a bipedal humanoid robot reportedly designed in just 40 days (Product page: https://en.wandercraft.eu/calvin-40 ;Demo link(YouTube)).

Featured Projects

1. Rapid Hand: a fully gear-driven 20-DoF robotic hand. Drawback: gear backlash leads to about 5° of looseness at the fingertips (Project link: https://rapid-hand.github.io/ ;demo link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1nqTTzdEnK).
2. MINI UGV: a small four-wheel four-steering chassis robot based on STM32, supporting both lateral and dual-Ackermann motion modes; costs about ¥500 (Demo link: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Bm78zCEnX ;will be released on Li Chuang EDA platform and Bilibili).
3. A repository organizing URDF files for industrial robotic arms (Project link: https://github.com/Daniella1/urdf_files_dataset).
4. Awesome Robot Descriptions, a curated collection of common robots and actuator URDF/MJCF files (Project link: https://github.com/robot-descriptions/awesome-robot-descriptions).
5. Robotic Portal, an archival website summarizing early robotic dexterous hands(Project link: https://mindtrans.narod.ru/hands/hands.htm).