🤖 Robotics - Humanoid Robotics
CJ Logistics has deployed two dual-arm humanoids on a live Olive Young packing line in Yongin, South Korea, inserting cushioning paper at a distribution center. This deployment marks a significant milestone in the adoption of humanoid robotics in logistics and supply chain management. The use of humanoid robots in this setting allows for increased efficiency and accuracy in packaging tasks.
Key Points:
• CJ Logistics has deployed two dual-arm humanoids on a live packing line in Yongin, South Korea.
• The humanoids are inserting cushioning paper at a distribution center.
• This deployment marks a significant milestone in the adoption of humanoid robotics in logistics and supply chain management.
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• Original post ↗ - Original source
• CJ Logistics ↗ - Logistics company
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🤖 Robotics - Positional Generalization
Has anyone gotten positional generalization for a e2e robotics model working? Like you hold out specific object placements you know for sure your model didn't see and it can still do the task. This seems like a problem that should have been solved by now.
Key Points:
• Positional generalization for e2e robotics models is still an open problem.
• The ability to generalize to unseen object placements is crucial for real-world robotics applications.
• This problem has not been fully addressed despite its importance.
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• Original post ↗ - Original source
• Ville Kuosmanen ↗ - Robotics researcher
🤖 Knowledge Distillation
How can a small model learn from a much larger one? Knowledge distillation trains the student on the teacher's probabilities, not just the top answer. Soft targets reveal similarities. A 7B model can absorb patterns from a 70B teacher.
Key Points:
• Knowledge distillation trains the student on the teacher's probabilities.
• Soft targets reveal similarities between the teacher and student models.
• A smaller model can learn from a larger model through knowledge distillation.
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• Original post ↗ - Original source
• Vizuara AI ↗ - AI research organization
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🤖 Robotics - Sensory Limitations
A robot can map a room to the millimeter and still not know a glass shattered behind it. A robot that cannot hear cannot be trusted around people. This highlights the limitations of current robotics technology and the need for more advanced sensors.
Key Points:
• Robots have limitations in their sensory capabilities.
• A robot can map a room but still not detect a glass shattering behind it.
• A robot that cannot hear cannot be trusted around people.
🔗 Resources:
• Original post ↗ - Original source
• Silencio Network ↗ - Robotics research organization
🚀 Aerospace - Flight Control Actuators
Volz Servos is deepening its collaboration with Kraus Hamdani Aerospace on flight-control actuator integration for the long-endurance K1000ULE, which has logged more than 7,000 flight hours and over 200,000 miles in the air for the U.S. DoW.
Key Points:
• Volz Servos is collaborating with Kraus Hamdani Aerospace on flight-control actuators.
• The K1000ULE has logged significant flight hours and miles.
• The collaboration aims to integrate flight-control actuators for the K1000ULE.
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• Original post ↗ - Original source
• Volz Servos ↗ - Aerospace company
• Kraus Hamdani Aerospace ↗ - Aerospace company
🚀 Healthcare - HoLEP Development
As we move from trials to launch, we're wrapping up a great collaboration with @drG_joroon and @fgomsan at @HillClinic in Sofia, Bulgaria. Hill Clinic has become one of the top HoLEP destinations in the world and has been a key part of our development.
Key Points:
• Andromeda Surg is collaborating with Hill Clinic on HoLEP development.
• Hill Clinic has become a top destination for HoLEP procedures.
• The collaboration aims to advance HoLEP development.
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• Original post ↗ - Original source
• Andromeda Surg ↗ - Medical device company
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🚀 Venture Capital - VC Trends
It's funny how VCs make this same tweet every two weeks but with different companies on top depending on who they've invested in and who put out a release most recently lol.
Key Points:
• Venture capital firms often tweet about their investments.
• The tweets often feature different companies.
• The tweets are likely generated based on recent investments and releases.
🔗 Resources:
• Original post ↗ - Original source
• Kyle Morgenstein ↗ - Venture capital investor
🤖 Robotics - Humanoid Robotics Battle
@OpenAI wants to build a humanoid. @AnthropicAI wants AI to operate the machines already around us. These are opposite bets on the same future, and they show how humanoid robotics is becoming a battle over the entire physical AI stack: the brain, the body, the interface, and the environment.
Key Points:
• OpenAI and Anthropic AI are competing in humanoid robotics.
• The competition is focused on the physical AI stack.
• The battle is centered around the brain, body, interface, and environment.
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• Original post ↗ - Original source
• OpenAI ↗ - AI research organization
• Anthropic AI ↗ - AI research organization
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🤖 Robotics - Research Awards
Our research has won two Young Presentation Awards and two Journal Paper Awards! #RSJ2026 The leaping of the one-legged robot RAMIEL (Suzuki), the development of the software foundation NeuroVM (Miki), the development of the open hardware MEVITA (Kawaratuka), and the development of the humanoid robot RAMIEL (Suzuki) have all been recognized.
Key Points:
• The research team has won multiple awards.
• The awards recognize the development of various robotics projects.
• The projects include the one-legged robot RAMIEL and the software foundation NeuroVM.
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• Original post ↗ - Original source
• KKawaharazuka ↗ - Robotics researcher
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🤖 Robotics - Anduril's Menace-I
Anduril's military-industrial company's container-type data center "Menace-I". Not just the naming sense, but the ostentatious "01" or the warning signs and such make me think, "This has gotta be designed by some total Evangelion fanboy, right?"
Key Points:
• Anduril has developed a container-type data center called Menace-I.
• The design of Menace-I is reminiscent of the anime series Evangelion.
• The naming and design of Menace-I are likely intended to be humorous or ironic.
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• Original post ↗ - Original source
• Anduril ↗ - Military-industrial company
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