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Social•Feb 12, 2026
Interfaces Evolve: Physical Space Becomes the UI
Interfaces are slowly leaving the screen. Instead of pressing buttons, you interact with things that behave like real objects in space. In this case, music stops being a timeline and becomes something you can walk around, touch, and reshape from any angle. And for my dear roboticists and operators: Robots won’t be programmed through menus forever. We’ll guide them the same way we guide people. Point here. Move that. Show intent in the world itself. The interface becomes the environment. And manipulation becomes communication. Credit: @maximzhestkov More from him here: https://zhestkov.studio —— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: 22astronauts.com
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 11, 2026
Fully Open‑Source Robotic Arm Lowers Embodied AI Barriers
Open Source Robotic Arm for All Developers [📍Github Below] A robotic arm project (reBot-DevArm) dedicated to lowering the barrier to learning Embodied AI. They focus on "True Open Source" (not just the code), they unreservedly open source everything: > Hardware Blueprints: Source files for...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 11, 2026
Drones Turn Indoor Strawberry Farming Into Data‑Driven Manufacturing
Strawberries. Indoors. Stacked to the ceiling. Now add drones flying between the rows. In the 4D Bios setup, drones move through vertical shelves and capture high-resolution images of leaves and fruit. Instead of manual inspection, plant health becomes a data stream: > drones scan...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Essential UC Berkeley Math Primer for Machine Learning
Mathematics for Machine Learning (47-page) An introduction from UC Berkeley Linear Algebra Calculus and Optimization Probability [📍SAVE FOR LATER] https://lnkd.in/dgziZ3xS —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: 22astronauts.com
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 10, 2026
Fingertip Redesign Unlocks Human‑Like Dexterity
Can finger position control alone ever match human dexterity? Probably not. The missing piece is contact mechanics: [📍 Paper and Website] Instead of adding more sensors or control tricks, PLATO hand changes the fingertip itself. Each finger combines a soft, compliant pulp with...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 9, 2026
Detachable Robotic Hand Redefines Dexterity in Tight Spaces
A robotic hand that can detach from its arm, crawl away, pick things up, and then come back to work again. Yes, it looks a bit like Thing from The Addams Family. But the idea behind it is very serious. This project, developed...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 9, 2026
High School Team Delivers Practical Robot in Six Weeks
A high school team built a robot climbing system in six weeks. Watching this, what stands out is how practical it is. The mechanism looks thought through, stable, and realistic for competition use. No overengineering, no gimmicks, just something that is...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 8, 2026
From Neurons to AlphaGo: Robotics Deep Learning Curriculum
Deep learning curriculum for robotics. [📍 Link to Playlist below ] Modern robotics workflows often integrate deep learning models with traditional algorithms for mapping, localization, and control. This playlist builds it from scratch: Single neurons → Backprop → CNNs → Transformers → GANs →...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 8, 2026
Stop Building Robot Infrastructure—Use Cloud-Native Platform
The biggest lie in robotics is that you need to build your own infrastructure. One founder just raised $3M to build the “AWS for robots.” 🧵 I talk to founders every week who are burning 80% of their seed round building...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 7, 2026
All‑Level Robotics Resource Library: Open‑Source Projects & Learning Paths
A complete library of resources that caters to all levels of Roboticists. 📍Save the GitHub for later This one is not a single project or course. It is a curated robotics resource library. Open-source robots Hands-on project ideas Research repositories ROS and ROS 2 learning paths University courses...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 7, 2026
Robotics Must Deliver Real Value, Not Just Hype
Peak robotics demo. Still no dishwasher replacement. And to be fair: this is impressive. The roboticists building this are world-class engineers. But in many conversations with founders, one thing is clear: as an industry, we now have to start delivering real, everyday value. Investors love the...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 6, 2026
Mathematical Foundations of Robotic Manipulation Explained
A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation. [📍Save for later] It is a foundational robotics textbook that universities use to teach full graduate-level courses. From body motion to manipulation, grasping, control, and nonholonomic planning. This is the mathematical backbone behind robot arms and hands. 📍...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 6, 2026
Steer Pretrained Robots in Real Time without Retraining
A training-free framework that guides robot behavior in real time. [📍 Project, paper & videos below 👇] VLS runs uncut, steering pretrained policies across long-horizon tasks. Most robots don’t fail because they lack skill. They fail because their behavior isn’t aligned with the...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 5, 2026
Loki Robotics Focuses Beyond Humanoids, Innovates Differently
Everyone talks about humanoids. Meanwhile, Loki Robotics :
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 5, 2026
Predictive World Model Lets Robots Learn Tasks Instantly
Robots usually fail for one simple reason: they don’t understand what will happen next. [📍Paper, code & task gallery at the end] > 14B “World Action Model” from NVIDIA : DreamZero… Instead of copying motions or replaying demonstrations, this model predicts how the world...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 5, 2026
Sports Discipline Fuels AI-Driven Industrial Automation
"Discipline Is a Transferable Skill" 🎙️ Camilla Mazzoleni is the co-founder & CPO of FORGIS , a Zurich-based startup building an AI operating layer for industrial automation: In this episode, Camilla shares a founder journey shaped long before robotics. She grew up as...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 4, 2026
Self‑driving Demo Shows Learned Competence, Not Scripted Automation
Keep coming back to this demo because it does something rare: It looks boring... in the best possible way. A vehicle drives itself around a facility, makes reasonable choices, and reaches a waypoint without any visible choreography. No dramatic edge cases or...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 3, 2026
Open‑source 3D‑printed Robot Wrist Showcases Early Sharing
3D printed differential robot arm wrist. [👇 GitHub Link - Open Source ] High demand, so they open sourced it early. A differential mechanism released as a test fixture for future robots. Built around their Spectral micro BLDC driver. Parts, STL files, example code...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 2, 2026
Open-Source Python Robotics Algorithms for Localization & Planning
A collection of Python robotics algorithms (localization, SLAM, path planning, motion planning). (📍GitHub ) Python sample codes and textbook for robotics algorithms. GitHub: https://lnkd.in/eBZXA22n —— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: scalingdeep.tech
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Feb 2, 2026
Historic 1885 Almond Coupling: Motorized, Support-Free Design
A motorized Almond Coupling, or Bent-Arm Joint. No supports or hardware needed. (📍 Link to Makerworld) It was invented and patented around 1885 as a right angle transmission coupling for steam and gas engines. 📍 https://lnkd.in/eMUV_Kgp —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: scalingdeep.tech
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 30, 2026
Robots Gain Finger-Level Force Awareness for Reliable Tasks
Robots are getting good at copying motion. Force is the harder problem. Too little force and the task fails. Too much force and something breaks. UMI-FT tackles this gap by adding something most learning setups miss: finger-level force awareness. Each finger of the UMI gripper...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 29, 2026
Robotics Teams Lose Time Rebuilding Infrastructure, Not Algorithms
🎙️ Stephen James is the founder and CEO of Neuracore , and Assistant Professor of Robot Learning at Imperial College London: In this episode, Stephen shares his path from growing up in Wales to spending a decade at Imperial, a postdoc...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 28, 2026
Open‑Source Dev Kit Enables AI‑Native Robotics Integration
An Open Source Dev Kit for AI-native Robotics. [📍github below ] This repo uses LeRobot's plugin conventions to be automatically detected by a LeRobot installation in the same Python environment. https://lnkd.in/gc5tmifi —— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: scalingdeep.tech
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 27, 2026
Essential ML Resources for Robotics Professionals
A curated list of resources about Machine Learning for Robotics 📍 [Bookmark or you’ll fever find this post again] Machine Learning is becoming a common technique to address robotics tasks. This repository intends cover this usage from a broad point of view. Awesome Machine...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 26, 2026
Robotic Packaging Cuts Labor, Costs, and Complexity
High-speed food packaging only makes sense if automation actually changes the economics. At Anı Bisküvi A.Ş., a robotic box-filling system from Robentex now runs two lines at a combined 800 products per minute. They moved to a tray-and-lid concept instead of classic...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 26, 2026
Genesis: Open Physics Platform for General-Purpose Robotics AI
A generative world for general-purpose robotics & embodied AI learning. Genesis is a physics platform designed for general-purpose Robotics/Embodied AI/Physical AI applications. 📍GitHub: https://lnkd.in/dEB_9zxC ——- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: scalingdeep.tech
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 25, 2026
Curated Open‑Source Robotics Projects to Accelerate Innovation
Open Source Robotics A curated collection of high-quality open source robotics projects, tools, and software to propel the robotics community forward. https://lnkd.in/dEhrHz2V —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: scalingdeep.tech
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 24, 2026
Synchronized Motors: Precision Drives Reliability in Robotics
A pair of synchronized motors moving as one. You know that feeling when a system is so well tuned it almost looks alive? I like watching this… • Perfect timing, no fighting each other • Lower wear because loads stay balanced • Higher precision where...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 24, 2026
Open‑Source Robot Arm Enables Low‑Latency Hand‑Teleoperation
Open-source robot arm meets hand tracking [📍GitHub below] It is designed with an industrial mindset but built as a 3D-printed desktop system. PAROL6 paired with a LEAP Motion controller is a nice example of how accessible robot teleoperation has become. • Hand motion is...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 23, 2026
ESP32 Implements PID Control for Ball‑Beam Robotics
PID Control of a Ball and Beam System using a ESP32 microcontroller. Video: https://lnkd.in/dDWGgZFm —- Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: scalingdeep.tech
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 23, 2026
Language-Driven 3D Modeling: Blender Now Programmable via Claude
BlenderMCP connects Blender to Claude AI through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). > Enables prompt assisted 3D modeling: Blender just became programmable by language. For anyone working in robotics, simulation, digital twins, or 3D content pipelines, this points to a future where environments...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 22, 2026
Simulation Quality, Not Solvers, Drives Embodied AI Success
🎙️ Steve Xie, Ph.D. is the founder and CEO of Lightwheel , building the simulation and synthetic data layer powering the next generation of embodied AI and humanoid robotics. In this episode, Steve shares a rare founder journey that starts far...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 21, 2026
Differentiable Simulation Enables Real‑World Quadruped Locomotion
Can differentiable simulation actually work for real robot locomotion? This work answers that with a rare yes❗️ The core problem has always been contact. Soft contact models give smooth gradients but break realism. Hard contact models are realistic but kill optimization due to discontinuities. This...
By Ilir Aliu
Social•Jan 21, 2026
Robots Now Autonomously Inspect Hazardous Tight Spaces
This simulation shows what a mobile inspection robot can actually do inside a tight industrial cabinet room. In the demo, Aru performs a full inspection workflow in a constrained space. Robots like Aru are becoming practical tools for inspections in spaces that...
By Ilir Aliu