Can a robot learn what its own body looks like — just by watching itself move? W/Neural Jacobian Fields (NJF), CSAIL researchers show that it can. Using just one external camera, NJF enables robots to infer the structure of their joints & limbs — no built-in sensors or prior
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Google DeepMind and robotics leaders advance AI-powered robot innovation
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Top stories in robotics today: – Google DeepMind’s on-device robot AI
– Apptronik’s ‘superhuman’ robotics spin-off
– MIT fast-tracks robot design with generative AI – Eco-friendly bots made from rice paper
– Quick hits on other robotics news Read more: https://
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Executive Office Toy Physics and Mechanical Motion
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> an executive office toy goes back and forth https://t.co/WQk3OiS2Sb pic.twitter.com/ZnoKWlXImr
— fofr (@fofrAI) 26 juin 2025> an executive office toy goes back and forth
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The Drone Man Exists: AI and Robotics Reality Check
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Mi psicóloga:
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 26 juin 2025
– El hombre dron no existe
El hombre dron:
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Europe Builds Sovereign AI Infrastructure With Agents and Robotics
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Discover how we're partnering with Europe to build a future powered by sovereign infrastructure, agentic AI, robotics, and exponential inference. Catch up on all the news unveiled at Jensen Huang's latest keynote at #GTCParis: https://
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Follow these AI robotics and research experts
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not my area, but these accounts seem good to follow @chris_j_paxton @DrJimFan @drfeifei @BostonDynamics @physical_int @pabbeel
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Google DeepMind Releases Gemini Robotics On-Device VLA Model
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Google DeepMind dropped Gemini Robotics On-Device, a VLA model that can run locally on robots — without internet
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 25 juin 2025
It can handle a wide variety of complex, two-handed tasks out of the box and even learn new skills with demonstrationspic.twitter.com/FA3YdkMdGHGoogle DeepMind dropped Gemini Robotics On-Device, a VLA model that can run locally on robots — without internet It can handle a wide variety of complex, two-handed tasks out of the box and even learn new skills with demonstrations
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BAIR researchers win Outstanding Demo Paper Award at RSS 2025
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Congratulations to BAIR researchers @kevin_zakka @qiayuanliao @arthurallshire @carlo_sferrazza @KoushilSreenath @pabbeel and Google collaborators for winning the Outstanding Demo Paper Award at RSS 2025! https://
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Google Announces Gemini Robotics On-Device System for Autonomous Operations
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Building on more than 10 years of robotics research and engineering at @GoogleDeepMind, @GoogleResearch and @GoogleAI, we're delighted to announce our Gemini Robotics On-Device system. A really capable vision-language-action model that can run entirely without network access. ⬇️ https://t.co/EBso5EBigr
— Jeff Dean (@JeffDean) 25 juin 2025Building on more than 10 years of robotics research and engineering at @GoogleDeepMind
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Wall Street Prefers Waymo Over Tesla Robo-Taxi Strategy
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Wall Street’s Best Ideas: A preference for Waymo rather than Tesla’s robo-taxi The very limited roll-out of Tesla’s self-driving taxi in Austin, Texas on Monday seems to have impressed very few, with the conventional wisdom being that Google’s Waymo already has achieved