Michelle

Robotics @ MIT

[Pulkit Agrawal @pulkitology]

🚀 Introducing SoftMimic: Compliant humanoids for an interactive future — bringing humanoids into the real world 🤝
🔗https://t.co/JkMONtD8px

Current humanoids collapse when they touch the world — they can’t handle contact or deviation from their reference motion 😭

😎SoftMimic learns to deviate gracefully from motion references. It natively embraces contact and forces — enabling safer, more robust robots that generalize better and interact gently.

Work led by @gabe_mrgl Michelle and @nolan_fey

[Gabe Margolis @gabe_mrgl]

Excited to share SoftMimic -- a new approach for learning compliant humanoid policies that interact gently with the world.

[Tangible @tangiblerobots]

Robots can do flips and play chess, but they still can’t grab a snack or clean your table.

Teleoperation is the key to unlocking real dexterity. It’s not a compromise—it’s a proven, powerful approach that combines human intuition with robotic precision. We’re not just using teleoperation; we’re advocating for it as the fastest path to making robots practical and useful today—not in 10 years, but in 1.

Follow along as we bring robots into every home. #TeleoperationFirst #TangibleReality

[Michelle @michl_wang]

Waiting for the day Frank can help us clean up our homes... Super excited to show what we've been working on and stay tuned for what's next!

[Bipasha Sen @bipashasen31]

🚀 Introducing Frank 🤖—a whole-body robot control system for day-to-day household chores.

Frank has been in works for the past year—a tightly coupled hardware and a remote teleoperation interface co-led by @michl_wang, @nst372, and @pulkitology.

Thanks to @skymanaditya1 and @shankaravaidy for the awesome help with recording the videos! 🎥

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