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Social•Feb 20, 2026
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A Diffusion Foundation Model for Bimanual Manipulation. RDT-1B is a 1B-parameter (largest to date) imitation learning Diffusion Transformer pre-trained on 1M+ (largest to date) multi-robot episodes. GitHub: https://lnkd.in/dUmGRibU ——- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: 22astronauts.com
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 20, 2026
Arduino‑Powered Acoustic Levitator Suspends Objects in Midair
A student built a real anti-gravity machine… using an Arduino. How to Make an Acoustic Levitator: Arduino Nano + motor driver + about 60 ultrasonic transducers. They all emit ~40 kHz sound. The sound waves meet and form fixed pockets in the air. Tiny bits of...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 19, 2026
Humanoid Robot Performs Real-Time Parkour via Perception
Not a preplanned motion sequence. A robot deciding mid-jump what to do next. [📍 paper + demo] Researchers just showed a humanoid doing real parkour using only onboard perception. No motion script, no fixed obstacle layout. The system is called Perceptive Humanoid Parkour (PHP). Instead...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 19, 2026
From Software to Robots: Making Automation Affordable and Deployable
🎙️ Evan Beard is the co-founder and CEO of Standard Bots , building AI-trained industrial robot arms designed to automate real factory work, not demos: In this episode, Evan shares a founder path that started in software startups and Y Combinator...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 19, 2026
3D‑Printed Lattice Tires Eliminate Air and Suspension
3D printed tires Pure 3D-printed lattice magic in TPU that flexes, absorbs insane weight, and keeps rolling. No air or suspension needed. @robotsailor is building next-level robot wheels… fully custom, printed fast on Bambu Lab printers. If you don’t follow him… you are...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Open‑Source Motion Capture Using Cheap Webcams
A fully open source mocap system that works with cheap webcams: The FreeMoCap Project A free-and-open-source, hardware-and-software-agnostic, minimal-cost, research-grade, motion capture system and platform for decentralized scientific research, education, and training: https://lnkd.in/dEzJdTBK —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: 22astronauts.com
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Language‑Based Policies Enable Zero‑Shot Cross‑Robot Skills
Same task, same scene. Different robot. Everything breaks… LAP trains the model to express motion in plain language, for example “move forward 3 cm” or “tilt 15 degrees” instead of predicting joint torques or tokens. Because language carries structure and meaning, the policy learns behavior...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 18, 2026
Robots Build Robots, Generating Data for IPO
robots building robots… • unitree dropped a video of their g1 humanoid assembling robot legs in their own shenzhen factory using the unifolm embodied ai model. yes, robots building robots at actual production speed • the tasks are real bimanual manipulation, picking...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 17, 2026
Nature-Inspired Robot Mastering Fly, Roll, Walk, Crawl
Bioinspired robot Fly - Roll - Walk - Crawl Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot (M4), a revolutionary robot inspired by nature's most adaptable creatures. > Capable of multiple forms of movement: flying, rolling, crawling, and more. > Features adaptive appendages that function as wheels, thrusters, and...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 16, 2026
ExtremControl Cuts Teleoperation Latency to 50 Ms
Whole-body control framework that reduces end-to-end latency of teleoperation to 50 ms. [📍it’s open source] Teleoperating a humanoid usually feels like driving through lag. This brings it close to real-time. A new control framework called ExtremControl cuts latency to about 50 ms. Older systems sit...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 16, 2026
Brightpick Advances Logistics While Others Dream of Humanoids
Everyone: humanoids will accelerate logistics. Meanwhile Brightpick …
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 15, 2026
Robotic Microfactory Prints Full-Scale Ship without Dockyard
Shipbuilding normally needs shipyards. This boat came out of a microfactory. Printed by robots. A full-scale vessel made inside an AI-driven facility, not a dockyard. Forget molds, heavy tooling, and offshore fabrication: Just a digital file → robotic print → finished structure. Large physical objects no...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 15, 2026
Shared Resources Make Robot Swarms More Resilient
Robots helping other robots so none of them breaks. Instead of every robot needing its own battery, sensors, and connection, they share with their neighbors. If one robot “gets blind” or runs out of power, the others support it and the whole...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 14, 2026
Join Builders: Weekly Robotics & AI Insights
if you catch yourself going down rabbit holes about ‣ robotics ‣ ai ‣ physics ‣ mathematics ‣ manufacturing ‣ hardware + software ‣ design ‣ systems ‣ autonomy ‣ control ‣ perception ‣ embedded you’re at the right place. this account is for you. lets build a community of builders, not only thinkers don’t just...
By Ilir Aliu