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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

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Weekly Robotics 361:

🤖 DIY Disney's inspired BD-X droid,
🤖 state estimation in contact-rich scenarios (very cool!),
🤖 reverse engineering Unitree Go2 motors,
🤖🤖 ROS 2 Lyrical released,

... and more!

https://t.co/w21OiEqGjS

#robotics #ros

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In other news, we just passed 6,000 e-mail subscribers! Onwards and upwards!

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Today in Weekly Robotics:

🤖 Honeybees teach drones to navigate,
🤖 how to test rotor blades for a Mars mission,
🤖 a ride-in bipedal,
🤖Japan's robot wolf supply issue,
🤖fine control of excavators,

and more!

https://t.co/kWu50pYTir

#robotics

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The mechs are here! A very interesting build from Unitree. Shows how good their actuators are to keep such a heavy beast upright. Would you ride in one?

https://t.co/alimyKCOEO

#robotics

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Today in Weekly Robotics:

* building a quadruped,
* Reinforcement Learning using Isaac Lab,
* an open-source book that will help you build a CubeSat,

...and more!

https://t.co/ufRBfUVsj4

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Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter:

🤖 a robot that plays tennis very well,
🤖a new open-source robot arm that can lift,
🤖 an open-source visualization platform from NVIDIA,
🤖 a lightweight glider

https://t.co/WeUiKkLURu

... and more!

#robotics

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Today in Weekly Robotics:

🤖 it's raining general robots news,
🤖 a new robotic simulator is in town,
🤖 Chinese robot winning a half-marathon,
🤖 quadruped robot fails,

... and more!

https://t.co/7MZne4r2rS

#robotics

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Today in Weekly Robotics:

🤖 Drones in GPS-denied environments,
🤖 spline-based trajectory planning,
🤖 a fault-tolerant flight computer for Artemis II,
🤖 a new sensor-fusion library for ROS,

and more!

https://t.co/bbCAQDhobf

#robotics

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That's one application for humanoids

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Meanwhile in Poland.

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The other day, I spoke to Adar Hay about custom part development and moving robotics projects from prototype to production. I found some very interesting insights in our conversation, hope you will too! See the full piece here: https://t.co/9ap1JcRmQE

#robotics #manufacturing