A drone cleaning solar panels from the air. 🚁☀️
Dust and dirt can reduce solar efficiency by up to 30%.
Instead of dangerous manual work, #drones can now clean panels faster, safer, and more efficiently.
#Automation + #cleanenergy = the future of maintenance.
#SDGs#Tech#AI
funny how in school you hate physics because of the exams, but then you start a project and suddenly you’re obsessed with how torque and inertia work. it hits different when you actually need to use it.
Why do generalist robotic models fail when a cup is moved just two inches to the left? It’s not a lack of motor skill, it’s an alignment problem. Today, we introduce VLS: Vision-Language Steering of Pretrained Robot Policies, a training-free framework that guides robot behavior in real time.
Check out the project: https://t.co/9xE68JPLUv
👇🧵 (Watch till the end: VLS runs uncut, steering pretrained policies across long-horizon tasks.)
Scientists have developed a #bioinspired policy that enables a multifingered robot to combine visual and tactile cues, like humans, to perform learned and new #manipulation tasks even under poor lighting conditions.
Learn more in Science #Robotics: https://t.co/MUene2lPpC
On our webpage, we explain why offline RL is especially challenging for legged locomotion, despite its success in VLA post-training.
❗️In short: Value-function-based RL methods underperform in legged locomotion. Thus most offline RL pipelines with value regularization fail to apply.
If policy gradient is a must given a fixed dataset, policies must be able to leverage synthetic experience. This makes model-based RL not just attractive, but essential.
Without new data, one has to deal with undercovered regions within the fixed dataset when optimizing the policy.
Let's talk about balance! ⚖️
The Ball and Beam system is a classic unstable control problem where a ball's position on a tilting beam must be regulated by adjusting the beam angle through feedback control.
A PID controller (built on ESP32) computes the required beam angle by combining three terms: proportional error correction, accumulated error elimination, and rate-of-change damping.
Implementation requires discretizing the continuous PID equation for digital sampling, and calculating error terms at each time step.
Tuning can be performed using classical methods like Ziegler-Nichols, he he.
Yeah, I know - I was a rockstar in college ;)
Great content yan_correa! 🦾
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.@Siemens and NVIDIA are accelerating the next wave of automation with physical AI. 🤝
Watch the full hashtag#CES2026 demo to see how Siemens is integrating NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries and Omniverse into its EDA, CAE, and digital twin portfolio, bringing physical AI across the entire industrial lifecycle.
📺 https://t.co/3UVIfKRysB