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Today in Weekly Robotics; some very creative robotics projects:

> a tethered aerial robot,
> a drone working as a periscope,
> a Cartesian robot manipulator,
> a robotic ball,

... and more!

https://t.co/ELH6Pa1ESv

#robotics #ros #research

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Will your LLM model stab a baby if you ask it to?

Looking forward to seeing how people tackle this problem. Research link: https://t.co/oLb0KaB1hd

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Weekly Robotics 377:

> Robot policies vs safety (a must-read!),
> how to win a DARPA heavy lift challenge,
> streamlining a SpaceX Raptor engine,
> a robot hand that crawls,

and more!

#robotics #ros #ai

https://t.co/7QUV6cV5De

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Today in Weekly Robotics:

> a robot doing magic,
> an interesting approach for looking around on a humanoid robot,
> robots on monkey bars,

... and more!

https://t.co/NOMozjQSBj

#robotics #ros #technology

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Today in Weekly Robotics:

🤖 A modular skid-steer UGV you can build yourself,
🤖 a winning SLAM implementation,
🤖 balancing a pole with propellers,
🤖 GPT-6 for robotic manipulation,

... and more!

https://t.co/AqUKpAUJuA

#robotics #ros #opensource

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Weekly Robotics 374:

> an insanely cheap robot duck,
> a guide to autodocking,
> highlights from the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games,
> Claude Code driving an R/C car,

and more!

https://t.co/LmvWnfeB7m

#robotics #ros

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Weekly Robotics 373 is here!

> How to train robots at a million-hour scale,
> NASA abandons satellite rescue mission,
> ROS enters the Physical AI world,
> A construction digger interface,

and more!

https://t.co/hl64oxEz8W

#robotics #ros

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Today in Weekly Robotics: DARPA Heavy Lift challange results and a fail video, create your own gripper fingers, truly modular robot architecture for both software and hardware, and more!

https://t.co/nLU4g46iNp

#robotics #ros

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@adrianmacneil @elonmusk ?

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I'm coming to #Actuate26 next week and will spend a week in SF. If anyone wants to grab a coffee and talk robotics, let me know!

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@macjshiggins X is definitely unusual for content like this, but I hugely enjoyed it! Thanks for making it!

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Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter:

> Gemini Robotics 2,
> a place to find your next robot dataset,
> how it is to build large construction robots,
> the legacy of the DARPA Robotics Challenge,

and more!

#robotics

https://t.co/GTjpflwWsu

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In Weekly Robotics 370, you'll learn about:

🤖 designing an underground robot scheduler,
🤖 an open-source L2 autopilot,
🤖 the problem with robot-centric deployment data for general robots,
🤖 an interesting flat-packed fixed-wing,

... and more!

https://t.co/47EjpzGz4y

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Weekly Robotics 369:

🤖 a new robotic hand on the block,
🤖 an aerial autonomy stack,
🤖 a robot that got stuck in the hallway,
🤖 puffin-inspired robot,

... and more!

https://t.co/2culOXNh9s

#drones #ros #technology

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Weekly Robotics 368:

🤖 an agile robot hand from 1X,
🤖 building an over-engineered tiny rover,
🤖 a clay 3D printer,
🤖 a free course on VLAs that you can run on your PC,

... and more!

https://t.co/bIn7torenf

#ros #vla #robotics

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Today in Weekly Robotics:

🤖 notes from a robotics field challenge,
🤖 a blueprint for generalized robot autonomy,
🤖 robot dog extinguishing fires,

... and more!

https://t.co/yttTF0amR9

#robotics #ros

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Weekly Robotics 365:

🤖 UX for a home robot,
🤖 Qwen Robot Suite,
🤖 How to build a research robot that lives next to your desk,
🤖 Field-testing space rovers at JPL,

... and more!

https://t.co/T0Vy5CZzrU

#robotics #ros

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Weekly Robotics 364:

🤖 quadrupeds help people with limited mobility,
🤖 SwarmGPT,
🤖 how to keep an old space rover going,
🤖 a new robot-learning online course,

... and more!

https://t.co/piM7koYK6M

#robotics

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Weekly Robotics 363:

🤖 a benchmark for humanoids,
🤖 robotics as a pre-paradigm field,
🤖 kilometer-scale navigation for UAVs without GNSS,
🤖 autonomous mapping with VSLAM using a cheap rover,
🤖 how I was close to destroying my 3D printer,

and more!

https://t.co/V6SGvd0GKi

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Today in the newsletter:

🤖 how to build a shitty robot,
🤖 the best way to learn Point Cloud Library (PCL),
🤖 reconfigurable space robots,
🤖 lessons learned from using the classical approaches in a robotics AI challenge,

... and more!

https://t.co/9YXwqjaFVL

#robotics