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Researchers on the RAI Institute have constructed a low-impedance platform to review dynamic robotic manipulation. On this demo, robots play a recreation of catch and take part in batting follow, each with one another and with expert people. The robots are able to throwing 70mph [112 kph], approaching the pace of a powerful highschool pitcher. The robots can catch and bat at brief distances (23 ft [7 m]) requiring fast response instances to catch balls thrown at as much as 41 mph [66kph] and hit balls pitched at as much as 30 mph [48kph].
That’s a pleasant contact with the customized “RAI” baseball gloves, however what I actually wish to know is how lengthy a pair of robots can preserve themselves entertained.
[ RAI Institute ]
This week’s greatest bacronym winner is GIRAF: Enormously Elevated Attain AnyMAL Operate. And if that arm appears like magic, that’s as a result of it’s, though with some cautious pausing of the video you’ll be capable to see the way it works.
[ Stanford BDML ]
DARPA concluded the second 12 months of the DARPA Triage Problem on October 4, awarding high marks to DART and MSAI in Methods and Knowledge competitions, respectively. The three-year prize competitors goals to revolutionize medical triage in mass casualty incidents the place medical sources are restricted.
[ DARPA ]
We suggest a robotic agnostic reward perform that balances the achievement of a desired finish pose with influence minimization and the safety of vital robotic elements throughout reinforcement studying. To make the coverage strong to a broad vary of preliminary falling situations and to allow the specification of an arbitrary and unseen finish pose at inference time, we introduce a simulation-based sampling technique of preliminary and finish poses. Via simulated and real-world experiments, our work demonstrates that even bipedal robots can carry out managed, tender falls.
[ Moritz Baecher ]
Oh look, extra humanoid acrobatics.
My prediction: as soon as humanoid corporations run out of mocapped dance strikes, we’ll begin seeing some freaky stuff that leverages the levels of freedom that robots have and people don’t. You heard it right here first, of us.
[ MagicLab ]
I problem the subsequent firm that makes a “lights-out” video to only minimize to only a completely black display screen with somewhat “Profitable Picks” counter within the nook that simply goes up and up and up.
[ Brightpick ]
Thanks, Gilmarie!
The terrain stuff is cool and all however can we simply speak in regards to the trailer as a substitute?
[ LimX Dynamics ]
Presumably very choosy German birblets are getting customized nesting containers manufactured with excessively excessive precision by robots.
[ TUM ]
All these UBTECH Walker S2 robots weren’t faux, it seems.
[ UBTECH ]
That is extra automation than what we’d actually be considering of as robotics at this level, however I might nonetheless watch all of it day.
[ Motoman ]
Brad Porter (Cobot) and Alfred Lin (Sequoia Capital) talk about the way forward for robotics, AI, and automation on the Human[X] Convention, moderated by CNBC’s Kate Rooney. They discover why collaborative robots are accelerating now, how AI is reworking bodily techniques, the function of humanoids, labor market shifts, and the funding traits shaping the subsequent decade of robotics.
[ Cobot ]
Humanoid robots have lengthy captured our creativeness. Curiosity has skyrocketed together with the notion that robots are getting nearer to taking up a variety of labor-intensive duties. On this dialogue, we replicate on what we’ve realized by observing manufacturing unit flooring, and why we’ve grown satisfied that chasing generalization in manipulation—each in {hardware} and conduct—isn’t simply attention-grabbing, however obligatory. We’ll talk about AI analysis threads we’re exploring at Boston Dynamics to push this mission ahead, and spotlight alternatives our area ought to collectively make investments extra in to show the humanoid imaginative and prescient, and the reinvention of producing, right into a sensible, economically viable product.
[ Boston Dynamics ]
On November 12, 2025, Tom Williams introduced “Levels of Freedom: On Robotics and Social Justice” as a part of the Michigan Robotics Seminar Collection.
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[ ROSCon ]
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