The end of boring chores? 🤖🧺
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✅ #3Dprinted parts (Bambu Lab).
✅ Real-time remote operation.
✅ Scalable 4-arm system.
#Automation isn't just for big factories anymore.
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Toilet cleaning robots are here! 🚽
Most “cleaning robots” today are really navigation products. They do floors well, but they avoid contact-rich tasks completely.
Loki Robotics is going after a harder category: automating human-level cleaning in semi-structured places like public restrooms and office kitchens.
Instead of just mapping and path planning, the robot has to physically interact with the environment: sinks, counters, toilets, fixtures, surfaces with different friction and geometry, plus cleaning liquids and tools.
Their strategy is a blend of teleoperation and machine learning. Humans guide and demonstrate the tasks remotely to bootstrap capabilities quickly, then ML helps generalize the behavior across different layouts and edge cases.
The manipulation side is the core as Loki relies on compliant tooling and force and impedance-style control so the robot can regulate pressure during contact, similar to how a person scrubs without damaging surfaces.
They also can do tool swapping mid-task, so a single robot can apply scrub, wipe, and switch tools depending on what it touches.
It’s not the most glamorous robotics vertical, but it’s one of the most realistic ones: high labor cost, constant demand, and environments that are messy but still repetitive enough to automate.
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NEW: China is testing a megawatt-scale airborne wind system that captures stronger high-altitude winds, potentially producing up to 10× more energy with 40% less material and 30% lower costs. It could also be quickly deployed to supply emergency power after disasters.
Shanghai MATRIX ROBOTICS has released a video of its new generation general-purpose humanoid robot: MATRIX-3.
Much more compact than the first generation, without a protruding "rear end," it features an impressive futuristic design, 27-DOF dexterous hand with tendon-driven joints, 3D soft fabric bionic skin (claimed to have tactile sensing), and incorporates a new neural network that allows for zero-shot learning, enabling it to perform tasks in complex environments.
It is planned for use in general scenarios such as manufacturing plants, logistics warehouses, and retail supermarkets.
However, this is currently just a video, and its actual performance remains to be seen, especially the rapid, sensitive, and free movements of the hands as shown in the video: this would truly be a huge breakthrough.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania unveiled ModQuad, a system of modular drones that can link together while airborne, forming larger flying configurations that coordinate their control to move and remain stable as one.
Dexterity’s Mech Industrial Robot
Mech is an industrial robot developed to support workers in physically demanding tasks. It features an 8-foot reach, a lifting capacity exceeding 130 lbs, and AI-based control systems to assist with handling heavy or complex operations, with the goal of improving workplace safety and operational efficiency.
Video source: Dexterity, Inc.
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This is the most dexterous task I’ve seen a humanoid do so far.
Fully autonomous powered by Sharpa’s CraftNet (VTLA) — using tactile feedback to continuously fine-tune the last-millimeter interaction.