A battery teardown business that never lets the robot walk
A humanoid picked battery screws 87 percent of the time standing still, and 37 percent after walking to the job. Build the business that keeps the machine still and moves the pack instead.
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Category: Robotics
Data/Robotics/China · Singapore
81.8% of chores is not a robot in your kitchen
One humanoid model finished 81.8 percent of runs across 11 household chores, roughly double the best rival. The average hides a chore that worked 4 times in 10.
Walking to the job cut a robot’s screw grabs from 87% to 37%
A humanoid picked loosened screws from a real Hyundai Ioniq 5 battery pack 86.7 percent of the time while standing still. After it walked itself into place, that fell to 36.7 percent.
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Research Radar/Robotics/USA · China
Robot trained only in a simulator crossed 10 of 15 messy rooms
TANGO sets all 29 joints of a humanoid at once, so it can duck, squat and sidestep while it walks. Trained only in simulation, it finished 10 of 15 real cluttered runs against 6 for the rival.
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Research Radar/Robotics/Singapore · China
One robot model did 11 chores, passing 8 tries in 10
A single model let a humanoid walk and work at once across 11 household chores, finishing 81.8 percent of runs. The best of nine rival models finished 44.5 percent.
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What is SLAM, and how do robots know where they are?
SLAM is how a robot maps a place it has never seen and finds itself on that map at the same time. This guide covers the loop it runs, the sensors it uses, and why blank walls break it.
What is robotics?
Robotics is the craft of building machines that sense, decide and act on their own. Learn the parts, the families of robot, and what these machines still cannot do.
What is reinforcement learning?
Reinforcement learning teaches software by trial, error and a score. Learn the five words behind it, why the reward is the hard part, and where it already runs.
What is a humanoid robot?
A humanoid robot copies the human body so it can use buildings and tools made for people. Learn how it balances, how it learns, and how to read a demo video.
What is a cobot?
A cobot is a robot arm built to work beside people, not behind a fence. Learn what makes one safe, what it is good at, and the checks to make before buying.
Research Radar/Robotics/China · Singapore · USA
Robots learn better by watching you than by watching other robots
A new study trained robots on 5,000 hours of video shot from people's own eyes. Those robots beat robots trained on robot video. The gap was biggest on tasks the robots had never seen before.
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