Can this $125K robot be my friend?

Companies like 1X and Unitree are spending millions trying to build robot companions. But why aren't they in our homes yet?

Two Years Later, We’re Finally Learning How a Transformers-Inspired Rover Fared on the Moon

On January 19, 2024, a tiny, spherical rover called SORA-Q arrived on the Moon and unfurled itself into two halves to deploy ...
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5-in-1 miniature surgical robot is the size of a seed

Picture a surgical robot that can move, cut tissue, release drugs, grip and store samples, and wirelessly generate heat. You ...
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Open Source Robotics AI Reaches Inflection Point: LeRobot Hub Surpasses 58,000 Datasets in One Year

Hugging Face's LeRobot platform — a free, open-source framework for training AI models on physical robots — now hosts more than 58,000 community-contributed datasets, up from 1,145 at the end of 2024, ...
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OpenVLA: An Open-Source Vision-Language-Action Model

To get started with loading and running OpenVLA models for inference, we provide a lightweight interface that leverages HuggingFace transformers AutoClasses, with minimal dependencies. For example, to ...
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D91 students build and code LEGO robots in new Snapology program

An after-school program where students learn to code and build robots using LEGOs is expanding to new schools in Idaho Falls School District 91. The program is in partnership with Snapology, a company ...
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Augmentus lands $11M to scale no-code robot programming

Singapore-based no-code robotics startups Augmentus Pte. Ltd. announced today that it has raised $11 million in new funding. It will use the funds to accelerate deployment of its fully autonomous ...
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Dartmouth students build and code robots in STEM challenge

Pupils at Dartmouth Academy have taken part in some Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workshops this term. Children in years three to six participated in the EKO Robotics ...