Robotics pioneer Siddhartha Srinivasa on the ‘last mile problem,’ humanoid hype, and why he’s joining Madrona

Siddhartha “Sidd” Srinivasa has spent his career at the intersection of robotics research and real-world deployment.
Futurism

New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.
Interesting Engineering

Video: 'Anti-gravity mode' lets China’s humanoid robot survive repeated kicks

Unitree’s G1 robot can take hits, falls, and shoves, then quickly get back on its feet thanks to Anti-Gravity mode.

DeepMind’s robotic ballet: An AI for coordinating manufacturing robots

With RoboBallet, the complexity of computation also grew with the complexity of the system, but at a far slower rate. (The computations grew linearly with the growing number of tasks and obstacles, ...
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Barren County teacher creates prosthetic hand for elementary student

GLASGOW, Ky. (WBKO) - Jackson Farmer, a 4th-grade student at Red Cross Elementary, received a brand-new 3D-printed prosthetic hand, named the Jackson 1 Beta Hand, on Monday. The prosthetic was ...