Looking fwd to @AUTOLab students presenting 4 papers @IROS2025 this week in Hangzhou, starting today with "A 'Botany-Bot' for Digital Twin Monitoring of Occluded and Underleaf Plant Structures" co-authored with @funmilore @shuangyuXxx & our collaborators @Siemens Eugene Solowjow.
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AI Labs Ignite $1.3B Valuation Unnoticed
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AI just moved into physical labs. and nobody’s paying attention to what that actually means. Lila Sciences hit $1.3B valuation in 2 years by building “AI Science Factories.” automated labs where robots run experiments 24/7, test hypotheses, and generate discoveries without
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Serial vs Parallel Robots: Speed and Precision in Robotics
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In robotics, speed isn’t everything, but precision without speed limits progress. Serial and parallel robots each redefine what “fast” means.
• Serial robots — the workhorses of car manufacturing — move like a human arm: each joint affects the next.
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Douglas Adams and Reinforcement Learning for Robotics
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Douglas Adams invented reinforcement learning for robotics in 1992 🙂 https://
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Humanoid Robots Arriving Sooner Than Expected
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Humanoid robots are coming way sooner than most think! https://
search.app/mhdsm #Robotics #humanoidrobotics #Robot #humanoid @SpirosMargaris @PawlowskiMario @mvollmer1 @gvalan @ipfconline1 @LaurentAlaus @Shi4Tech @Fisher85M @kalydeoo @Ym78200 @Nicochan33 @chboursin @3itcom -
New humanoid robot capable of genuine human connection for homes
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Yogi: New #humanoid robot capable of ‘genuine human connection’ could take over homes! https://
search.app/kGQ5G #humanoidrobot #Robotics #Robots @PawlowskiMario @chidambara09 @Ym78200 @CurieuxExplorer @efipm @bigfundu @sayedflah @Ronald_vanLoon @cyngn @belindabeibi -
Stanford Alumni Explore AI Education, Jobs, Robotics Future
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From AI empowered education reforms, to the future of jobs, from spatial intelligence to robotics, it was fun to spend my alumni reunion Saturday with alums from all over the world and my friend @lilysarafan , chair of @Stanford board of trustees. Go Cardinal! @StanfordHAI
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RoboChallenge: Embodied AI Reaches ImageNet Moment
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Embodied AI has reached its ImageNet moment.
— 机器之心 JIQIZHIXIN (@jiqizhixin) 19 octobre 2025
Dexmal, in collaboration with Hugging Face, has released RoboChallenge.
It's the first large-scale, multi-task benchmark in which real robots perform manipulation tasks in real-world physical environments.
Our report:… pic.twitter.com/UVBZdUXUjhEmbodied AI has reached its ImageNet moment. Dexmal, in collaboration with Hugging Face, has released RoboChallenge. It's the first large-scale, multi-task benchmark in which real robots perform manipulation tasks in real-world physical environments. Our report:
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Bringing Advanced Technology to LeRobot Platform
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very cool! Wonder if we could bring something like this to @LeRobotHF