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That old phone gathering dust in a drawer could have a second life far more entertaining than being a paperweight. UCLA researchers have created PhoneBot, a little humanoid that puts your smartphone to work as the brains of a walking robot companion.
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How better data and human judgment can help robots move beyond demos toward reliable real-world performance.
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The Robot Report spoke with Alberto Rodriguez, the director of robot behavior for Atlas at Boston Dynamics, about the humanoid's new hand.
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. CoRL 2026: 9–12 November 2026, AUS…
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Jabil, which is working with robot developers such as Apptronik, provides a design perspective on humanoid progress.
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Mecka AI collects and analyzes human motion data to train humanoid robots and other kinds of robots. The startup pays people to record everyday tasks.
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This White Paper gives robotics researchers and engineers an overview of a new large-scale motion capture dataset built to close the data gap limiting humanoid robot learning. It also shows how policies trained on the dataset transfer to a real humanoid robot. What you will lear…
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Agilink, a spin-off of Chinese robotics giant AgiBot, asked Fu Xianghong, a master of traditional Suzhou embroidery, to train its OmniHand 3 Ultra. The synthetic hand has learned to split silk strands, thread a needle, stretch fabric across a frame, and stitch, following a craft…
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Figure has finally taken its humanoid robot out of the lab and tested it across 30 unfamiliar homes. The robot picked up toys, folded towels, and made beds — successfully completing 56% of its attempts. So is 56% impressive… or a failure? In this video, we break down what Figure…
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. CoRL 2026: 9–12 November 2026, AUS…
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