Robotics

Mistral’s 8B Robostral Navigate steers robots through unfamiliar spaces with a single RGB camera, scoring 76.6% on the R2R-CE unseen benchmark.

Meta FAIR has released Sparsh touch representations, the Digit 360 fingertip sensor and the Digit Plexus platform, with partners including Wonik Robotics.

MIT researchers have built Heterogeneous Pretrained Transformers, which unify diverse robot data so robots can learn new tasks with less retraining.

Engineers at King’s College London have built fluid-based circuits that control robots without electricity, freeing computing capacity for other tasks.

MIT engineers have developed Clio, which lets robots map a scene and pick out objects relevant to a task described in natural language.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have built HEXEL, hexagonal electrohydraulic modules that snap together into new robots.

Cornell scientists have built robots smaller than 1 millimetre that use kirigami to change from flat sheets into 3D shapes and move.

ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have built a robotic leg that uses electrohydraulic artificial muscles instead of motors.

Cornell researchers have built biohybrid robots that use fungal mycelia to sense their environment and respond to light and touch.

MIT engineers have built a zinc-air battery smaller than a grain of sand that could power cell-sized robots, producing up to 1 volt.

Istanbul high school student Selin Alara Ornek has built IC4U, a robot guide dog for visually impaired people running on NVIDIA Jetson.

NVIDIA and university researchers have built ORBIT-Surgical, a simulation framework that trains robots in tasks inspired by laparoscopic training.