Humanoid Robot CHILD Mimics Parent-Child Motion

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Many mother and father naturally educate motions to their little one whereas utilizing a child provider. On this setting, the mum or dad’s vary of movement totally encompasses the kid’s, making it intuitive to scale down motions in a puppeteering method. This impressed UIUC KIMLAB to construct CHILD: Controller for Humanoid Imitation and Dwell Demonstration.

The function of teleoperation has grown more and more vital with the rising curiosity in gathering bodily information within the period of Bodily/Embodied AI. We exhibit the capabilities of CHILD by loco-manipulation and full-body management experiments utilizing the Unitree G1 and different PAPRAS dual-arm techniques. To advertise accessibility and reproducibility, we open-source the {hardware} design.

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This prices lower than US $6,000.

[ Unitree ]

If I wasn’t offered on one in every of these little Reachy Minis earlier than, I undoubtedly am now.

[ Pollen ]

On this examine, we suggest a falconry-like interplay system wherein a flapping-wing drone performs autonomous palm touchdown movement on a human hand. To realize a protected method towards people, our motion planning technique considers each bodily and psychological components.

I ought to level out that palm landings usually are not falconry-like in any respect, and that in case you’re doing falconry proper, the fowl must be touchdown in your wrist as a substitute. I’ve different hobbies apart from robots, you already know!

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I’m undecided that augmented reality is sweet for all that a lot, however I do like this use case of interactive robotic assist.

[ MRHaD ]

Thanks, Masato!

LimX Dynamics formally launched its general-purpose full-size humanoid robotic LimX Oli. It’s presently accessible solely in Mainland China. A worldwide model is coming quickly.

Standing at 165 cm and outfitted with 31 lively levels of freedom (excluding end-effectors), LimX Oli adopts a general-purpose humanoid configuration with modular hardware-software structure and is supported by a growth toolchain. It’s constructed to advance embodied AI growth from algorithm analysis to real-world deployment.

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Thanks, Jinyan!

Meet Treadward – the most recent robotic from HEBI Robotics, purpose-built for rugged terrain, inspection missions, and real-world fieldwork. Treadward combines excessive mobility with excessive sturdiness, making it perfect for difficult environments like waterlogged infrastructure, catastrophe zones, and building websites. With a compact footprint and treaded base, it will probably climb over particles, traverse uneven floor, and carry substantial payloads.

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PNDbotics made a surprising debut on the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Convention (WAIC) with the first-ever joint look of its full-sized humanoid robotic Adam and its clever data-collection counterpart Adam-U.

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This paper presents the design, growth, and validation of a completely autonomous dual-arm aerial robotic able to mapping, localizing, planning, and greedy parcels in an intra-logistics state of affairs. The aerial robotic is meant to function in a state of affairs comprising a number of provide factors, supply factors, parcels with tags, and obstacles, producing the mission plan from voice the instructions given by the person.

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We left the room. They took over. No people. No directions. Simply robots… transferring, coordinating, exhibiting off. It virtually felt like… they have been staging one thing.

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Within the third installment of our Moonshot Podcast Deep Dive video interview collection, X’s Captain of Moonshots Astro Teller sits down with Dr. Catie Cuan, robotic choreographer and former artist in residence at On a regular basis Robots, for a dialog about how dance can be utilized to construct lovely and helpful robots that folks need to be round.

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