Alibaba's RynnBrain Positions China to Lead Robotics AI
Will China be competitive in robotics and physical AI? It sure appears that way. RynnBrain is Alibaba’s foundational AI model designed specifically for embodied intelligence—the field of AI that powers robots to interact with the physical world. Developed by Alibaba’s DAMO Academy, it serves as a "thinking brain" for machines, allowing them to perceive, reason, and act in complex environments like kitchens or factory floors.
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
Predictive World Models Transform AI, Robotics, and Gaming
For our free newsletter this week, we talk about the significance of World Models. @IrenaCronin and I write this newsletter every week. World Models are AI systems that learn how an environment changes over time so an agent can predict what happens...
Exploring Cutting-Edge Automated Lab Gear at SLAS Boston
SLAS is going on in Boston right now. We’re checking out a lot of cool automated lab equipment this week. https://t.co/CSFO1oGnt7
Free Lecture on Heavy‑Lift Uncrewed Air Systems
FREE #aviation lecture, RAeS Loughborough Branch, 10 Feb, 'Heavy Lift Uncrewed Air Systems' #avgeek #drones https://t.co/0txRAQ0fIY https://t.co/kvuzcxwgR0
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,...
Anduril Leaders Present Autonomous Submarine Vision at SecWar
It's such an honor to be surrounded by the wonderful people that make @anduriltech the company that it is. @mttgrmm and I loved having the opportunity to share our vision with @SecWar this morning at our autonomous submarine factory...
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....
Windracers Partners with HITRANS to Boost Remote Drone Deliveries
News from the UK's @Windracers as it announces MoU with Scotland's Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership (HITRANS) to expand use of drone cargo deliveries to most remote regions of the UK #avgeek https://t.co/KpjvD28at5 https://t.co/7hDBSxpdfQ
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...
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 →...
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...
Students Lead Robots, Amplify STEM Outreach Impact
One of my biggest sources of pride is when my students follow my lead & take my robots to do STEM outreach. I can't be everywhere but my students can have just as much impact. My robots built by kids...
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...
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...
Bout-and-Glide Swimming Proven More Energy Efficient
A recent Science #Robotics study uses a #bioinspired robot to demonstrate that “bout-and-glide" swimming, seen in aquatic animals such as zebrafish and humpback whales, is more energy efficient than continuous swimming. https://t.co/8EWURPmuCh https://t.co/bUXSw19YsT
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...
Execution-Level Learning Accelerates Robot Improvements in Production
i wrote a lil essay on why execution-level learning changes how robots improve in production on @airstreetpress frontier robotics is moving fast in the lab, but even faster in @sereactai customer facilities today :) https://t.co/SPe81uBAAc
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...
Give Fremont Workers Home Robots for Dual‑use Data
I've been visiting with robot video data collectors and merchants of said data. He's buying a lot of data from these people as well, but the 12,000 workers at Fremont are an under-thought-of resource. He could lend a Tesla robot to...
Robotic Modules Bloom Like Flowers to Auto‑shade Rooms
Scientists have developed rearrangeable robotic modules that can “bloom” like flowers to shade a sunlit room by sensing light levels and adapting collectively. Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/0zas9GijHE https://t.co/eodfL5SNiU
Loki Robotics Focuses Beyond Humanoids, Innovates Differently
Everyone talks about humanoids. Meanwhile, Loki Robotics :
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...
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...
Learn STEM & Robotics From an AI Avatar Professor
Let my AI Avatar Robotics Professor teach you key concepts in STEM and robotics #Robots #STEM #AI #NoireSTEMinist #Robots https://lnkd.in/gpe_5j9i
HSST Passes NASA Authorization Bill, Rejects Drone Detection Amendment
HSST unanimously adopted (37-0) the NASA auth bill, HR 7273, as amnded. List of adopted amndmnts: https://t.co/DpUjGFOTeA. One (Rep Stevens) rejected by recorded vote (18-19) to improve NASA's ability to detect drones entering its airspace. Opponents said not right bill...
Robot Faces Now Sync Lips Across 12 Languages
Scientists have designed a framework that enables a humanoid robot face to produce realistic lip-audio synchronization across 12 different languages, including English, Russian, Korean, and Arabic. Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/Sk4UElC3o8 https://t.co/geXyInLY89
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...
Editor Shares Insights at Nanotech Conference Plenary
Wrapping up two days at the 10th biennial International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology here in Sydney, Australia. Highly engaging event, where my participation involved serving on a panel discussion with other journal editors and delivering a plenary presentation on our...
Robotic Hand Achieves Humanlike Dexterity via Multitask Policy
A new Science #Robotics study highlights a multitask policy that enables a robotic hand to manipulate objects with humanlike dexterity, such as turning a bottle cap or sliding a snack sleeve out of a box. https://t.co/MUene2lPpC https://t.co/J8Bz5scShY
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,...
Few In‑Domain Demos Still Outperform Broad Models in Robotics
Maybe the bitter lesson for robotics that goes against all the current narratives is that a small amount of in-domain demos is really hard to beat, especially when it comes to e.g. industrial use cases, where variability is limited.
Seeking SF Unitree Go2 EDU for RL Testing
Anyone in SF have a Unitree Go2 EDU I can test deploy a few RL policies to? https://t.co/whZVHLj59P
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
IROS2026 Convenes Top Robotics Leaders in Pittsburgh
#IROS2026 will convene in Pittsburgh from Sept 27 – Oct 1! As one of the largest & most dynamic robotics conferences, IROS brings together world-leading researchers, educators, govt. leaders, startups, industry innovators, practitioners, & investors👇 https://t.co/zWIb6SZtCO https://t.co/A12L5450Aw
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...
Everyday Devices Pack More AI Power Than Macs
Our Teslas have far more AI inferencing power than a Mac Mini. Mine is sitting in my garage right now unused. Another in the driveway. I dream of a day when I can run @openclaw (or a competitor) on them. Along these...
Build Real‑World Software, Join Our Home Robot Team
If you're tired of writing code that only lives on a screen, join us in building software that gives people their time back in the real world. Sunday is hiring Software Engineers of all levels to bring our home robot to...
Policy Boosts Dexterous Robots, Paving Way for Child‑like Learning
A new Science #Robotics Focus article highlights the merits of a new policy that enables dexterous robotic manipulation and speculates on how future research may enable robots to learn from humans the way a child learns from watching its parents....
Model‑Robotics Loop Accelerates Experimental Discovery Rates
Agree completely with @kevinweil this loop between models and robotic labs works today and it’s going to be exciting the directions that scientists take autonomous labs. Feels inevitable that it will yield a great speed up in our...
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...
China Poised to Outpace US in Robot Intelligence
I haven't seen any data collection effort like this in San Francisco. Understanding how your brain senses things is next level for training robots. This right here is telling me that China is about to pull way ahead of USA's robots. Except I...
Bioinspired Policy Lets Robot Fuse Sight, Touch in Dark
Scientists have developed a #bioinspired policy that enables a multifingered robot to combine visual and tactile cues, like humans, to perform learned and new #manipulation tasks even under poor lighting conditions. Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/MUene2lPpC https://t.co/o4w77e6jPl
Robots Gain Spatial Smarts by Learning Real‑World 3D Environments
The dream of robots helping people live and work better in the physical world begins with helping robots to become more spatially intelligent by learning from the infinitely diverse and intricate environments of the 3D/4D worlds 🤖🤩
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...
Robotics Demos Lag Far Behind Real-World Production
there is massive arb between robotics demos you see on twitter and what very few companies have in large-scale production today and no, the gap isn't in favor of the twitter demos.
Bout-and-Glide Swimming Proves More Energy Efficient
A new Science #Robotics study uses a #bioinspired robot to demonstrate that “bout-and-glide" swimming, seen in aquatic animals such as zebrafish and humpback whales, is more energy efficient than continuous swimming. https://t.co/8EWURPmuCh https://t.co/UJWVkzvaRk
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
Ask Your Burning TIA Portal STEP 7 Questions
You work with Siemens TIA Portal – and there’s a question you always wanted to ask? 🤔⚙️ Now is your moment. I’m collecting your questions for an interview with Christian Fischer , Product Manager for STEP 7 in the Siemens...
Robot Masters 1,000 Tasks After <24‑hour Demos
Scientists have developed an #ImitationLearning-based method that enabled a robot to learn 1000 distinct manipulation tasks from less than 24 hours of human demonstrations. Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/T9EKphwp70 https://t.co/R3TFjfdUgd