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[Nurettin Akçay @akcay_nurettinn]

Unitree’nin yeni köpeği.

30 km menzilli 16 km taşıma kapasiteli.

[Mars University @MarsUniversityX]

Elon Musk:

“SpaceX will put big telescopes in space and giant ones on the Moon.”

[Dragon kingdom.wu🌃 @loongkingdom]

China has officially launched nuclear batteries with a lifespan of 5,000 years.

[Dragon kingdom.wu🌃 @loongkingdom]

China welcomes a record number of international tourists this month

[Dragon kingdom.wu🌃 @loongkingdom]

China boasts the most magnificent natural landscapes in the world.

[The Volga Company @volgacompany]

@MarsUniversityX Bon voyage 🛫 ✨️.

[The Volga Company @volgacompany]

@MarsUniversityX Bon voyage 🛫 ✨️.

[Mars University @MarsUniversityX]

Elon Musk:

“I am confident that Starship will land humans on Mars. That path is clear.”

[China Xinhua News @XHNews]

When a robot wins a fight, it celebrates too. After knocking down its opponent in a humanoid robot combat match in Shenzhen, south China, this robot started a victory dance. #robots #AI #HumanoidRobot #robotics

[Johannes Maria @luo_yuehan]

Unitree's new As2-W combines wheels and legs to tackle stairs, rocky trails, streams and steep slopes with ease. Designed for exploration and field operations, it can carry supplies, adapt to complex terrain in real time and travel more than 30 kilometers on a single charge. #china

[Kohei Kurihara - Privacy for all together 🌍 @kuriharan]

Robotic park via @IntEngineering

#tech #digital #data

[Kohei Kurihara - Privacy for all together 🌍 @kuriharan]

@pbdlab team had a fruitful dialogue with Members of the @Europarl_EN Delegation for Relations with Japan (D-JP) at @EUinJapan 🇯🇵🇪🇺

Bridging the international cooperation to design #privacy and let's build the future society together!

https://t.co/ExKi9jp7oJ

[CyberRobo @CyberRobooo]

Tactile sensing in Physical AI may be seriously underestimated.

Just watched Prof. Michael Yu Wang’s “Touch Physical AI” keynote(in the comments) from @DaimonRobotics at ICRA 2026 RoboTac. Their two latest demos make the point clear.

>Fruit packing:A humanoid autonomously handles the full sequence--picking the box, grasping, placing, and sealing. Facing fruits of varying size, shape, firmness and pose, it continuously senses contact, judges grip force in real time, detects slip, and adjusts strategy for stable dual-arm collaboration.

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

end of arm tool is the API for the physical world

[clankr @clankrmedia]

Wow! Humanoids are getting dangerously athletic.

Beijing Institute of Technology introduced Extreme-RGMT.

It lets Unitree G1 perform backflips and aerial cartwheels.

The robot can also copy extreme moves live from a human.

Video speaks for itself!

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Qualcomm’s new AI chip demo ended when the robot died mid-presentation.

[Space and Technology @spaceandtech_]

PrimeBot, a Chinese robotics company, has unveiled the world's first transformable robot, T1.

It can switch on its own between a two-wheeled humanoid mode for indoor movement and a four-legged mode for walking on grass or climbing stairs.

The robot can also interact by voice, understand its surroundings, and remember routines and spaces to respond more naturally over time.
@Primebotglobal

[Sharing Travel @TripInChina]

Terrifying soldiers, if they are equipped with AI.

[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

Qualcomm’s AI robot collapsed mid-presentation 😭

(skip to 0:30)

[Léo @LeoKharon]

Today, I would like to take a look at @mimicrobotics , a spinout from ETH Zurich that is now also present in SF.

Mimic does not make robots: they focus on hands, and are extremely good at it.

Mimic has two products:
- The M1: a pair of anthropomorphic hands. 15 actuated plus 6 coupled joints, driven by bi-directional pulley-guided tendons, with fingertip tactile sensors reading normal force, tangential force and multi-point contact location, dual encoders (motor and joint) throughout, and wrist-mounted global-shutter cameras. Most interesting feature imho: they can easily be mounted on robot arms.
- The U1: while looking like a twin of the M1, they are actually wearable gloves. A passive exoskeleton carrying the same tactile sensors, encoders and cameras as the M1, for seamless translation between the two devices.
Most importantly: the U1 contains a rigid linkage that mechanically forces the wearer's fingers through the same motions the M1 makes.

The isomorphism between these two devices is what makes them super interesting imho, it allows reproduciblity at ±0.18 mm fingertip accuracy.

Mimic claims the M1 "covers the full range of human capability" while having less DoF than its competitors. It seems Mimic is betting on accuracy instead, and perhaps they are right.

I would be curious to see if @Linker_hand has something in stock here!

Watch here a cool demo of the M1 mounted on robot arms, perfectly suited for hardware work (that does not require a full humanoid):