The Robotics Stack @roboticsstack

XPENG's Iron has the most natural walk of any humanoid so far. Human-like spine, bionic muscle structures, flexible skin, and 900M raised! Also: teaching a robot from one demo, Exotec's warehouse robots, and China landing its first booster on legs. m.youtube.com/watch?v=_8A5a_…

A chinese humanoid company is now selling an AI companion with silicone skin, 88 DoF, and an LLM that reads 20 emotions. 13,000 orders at launch. We dive into the AI companion market on @roboticsstack, including the cyber brothel that opened in Berlin. youtube.com/watch?v=nceLG4…

A chinese humanoid company is now selling an AI girlfriend with silicone skin, 88 DoF, and an LLM that reads 20 emotions. 13,000 orders at launch. We dive into the AI companion market on @roboticsstack, including the cyber brothel that opened in Berlin. youtu.be/PAxpQ_fAPuY

The Asimov 1 by @asimovinc might be the first real open-source humanoid. $20k for the kit, $499 to pre-order, 100+ hours to build it. Employee-owned, no VC. Also: @DynaRobotics's new model, @trossenrobotics, and thoughts on robotics margins. youtu.be/xobT0PgxKAA

Gemini Robotics 2 can unscrew a light bulb 92% of the time. But screwing it back in? 36%. We cover Google's new models, + the top 10 robotics companies by revenue, why plugging ChatGPT into a robot doesn't work, and robot fights. New episode 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=mTpMiW…

Every humanoid joint you've seen is three motors stacked on top of each other, each one carrying the weight of the last. @roboticsstack sat down with Bryce Cianciotto @CianciottoBryce, who built the Orbit Actuator that does all three axes with the motors at the base, and the wires routed through the middle. New episode 👇

Every humanoid joint you've seen is three motors stacked on top of each other, each one carrying the weight of the last. We sat down with @CianciottoBryce, who built the Orbit Actuator that does all three axes with the motors at the base. New episode 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=AFOMl8…

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An Italian startup just dropped one of the most impressive humanoids we've seen. We dig into Generative Bionics' GENE.01, Sunday Robotics folding laundry with ACT-2, and the rumor that Anthropic tried to acquire Physical Intelligence. New episode of @roboticsstack 👇

The hardest thing to build in robotics isn't the brain, but the hand 🖐️ This week, we get into 1X's NEO and why dexterous manipulation is the real frontier. Plus: surgery bots, autonomous construction, and how you even benchmark a robot. New episode 🦾 youtube.com/watch?v=N2cEvg…

Interesting how embodiment and intelligence condition ond another

Léo @LeoKharon

2 months ago

Robotics essentials: EMBODIMENT A robot's intelligence is not only stored in its head. Part of it sits in the shape of its body. The oldest proof is the passive dynamic walker: a pair of legs with no motors, no sensors and no controller at all, which walks down a shallow slope

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@MatthewBerman Isn't Poolside supposed to be French?

What can an AI learn from rocket league? We dig into MIRA, General Intuition's new world model trained on game data. Plus Flexion's long-horizon leap, @tnkrdotai the "Github for robots", and Boston Dynamics at the World Cup. New episode 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=Kg6nwE…

They literally named a robot the "T800", after The Terminator. We dug into EngineAI's new humanoid, Anduril's Arsenal OS, and the Tesla lawsuit nobody's talking about. New episode 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=jL1pRg…

Jeff Bezos might have just quietly started a robotics hardware company We get into what it means for CAD, hardware, and the whole engineering stack Plus Agibot running real robots on a live factory floor, Nvidia Halos, and Virtual Protocols New episode 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=HA655U…

Did Anthropic just kill the Physical AI category? We dig into the Fable & Mythos ban and what it really means for embodied AI, plus Qwen's new robotics model suite and NOX Metals' bet on next-gen factories. New episode 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=aUm8yX…

Did Anthropic just kill the Physical AI category? We dig into the Fable & Mythos ban and what it really means for embodied AI, plus Qwen's new robotics model suite and NOX Metals' bet on next-gen factories. New episode 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=aUm8yX…

What does it actually mean to "train" a robot? @LeoKharon discussed this on @roboticsstack Most people picture reinforcement learning or world models. The reality on a factory floor today is actually behind what many people think. The dominant method is still manual programming: → A teach pendant device "allows an operator to manually jog the robot into positions" and record waypoints → The robot then "basically just repeats the path" → "This works extremely well if everything stays the same" It works beautifully until something moves. New object, new task, even a lighting change, and a human expert comes back to reprogram the whole thing from near scratch. Before any robot "learns" anything, the question is whether it can handle a world that refuses to stay still. Walmart found this out at scale. It spent years deploying Bossa Nova's shelf-scanning robots across hundreds of stores, then pulled the program in 2020. The robots worked. The stores around them kept changing faster than the systems could keep up. Source: @roboticsstack

Why are Tether, Nvidia, and Amazon all pouring money into the same robotics company? This week we go from an US-made robot arm to the gig-economy data grab, all the way to NEURA's $1.4B Series C. New episode 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=9IbGRz…