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“Dear human, please help me with this pick.” Brightpick’s robots ask a person for help when they can’t pick an item. CEO Jan Zizka explains why pursuing 100% automation still means planning for failures. https://t.co/drrsOPgCOz…

“Amplifying, not replacing people.” Russ Tedrake shares how years of working with Toyota shaped his thinking about robotics and the people whose work it will change. Watch the full interview: https://t.co/FpVOFzhGVB #Robotics…

Jagdeep Singh says teaching a robot to decant ball bearings took roughly 10–20 hours of task-specific video, building on training from hundreds of millions of internet clips. More from Automated with Brian Heater. #Robotics #PhysicalAI…

Train a robot only on red objects, then show it the same objects in blue. It may have memorized the color as part of their identity. Carolina Parada explains why robot training needs variety, even when the task stays the same. Catch the…

How much of Unitree’s humanoid business is industrial? Aaron Prather puts it at 9%, mostly factory tours and inspections. Watch for a closer look at where the robots are going and what they’re doing. Watch more: https://t.co/Gjrc2016Qo…

A humanoid loading a metal part onto a fixture has a demanding competitor: the industrial robot already doing that job. The humanoid may be able to walk between stations and perform several different tasks. But manufacturers also need to…

A robot seating gaskets reliably for a full shift would tell manufacturers more than another backflip. Aaron Prather looks at robot hands, durability, and whether the work needs legs on The Business of Automation. https://t.co/4r2hDLbbCP…

Happy Women in Robotics Day! 🤖💜 On Automated, @ABBRobotics’ Andie Zhang encourages women pursuing robotics careers to recognize the skills they already bring, from software experience to curiosity and collaboration. #WomenInRobotics…

Four Unitree humanoids walked the runway at Vogue World in Milan. None wore clothes. 🤖👀 Aaron Prather has a few thoughts about that booking in The Business of Automation, including where humanoids fit commercially when the novelty wears…

Detroit Continues to Evolve as the Hub for the Next Generation of Industrial Automation! https://t.co/V7iwGuQVKc https://t.co/E92OgQESVY

AI can be the engine. Social impact has to be the goal. Karen Panetta talks with Brian Heater about using AI, robotics and engineering to solve problems that meaningfully improve people’s lives. Her work has applied technology to food…

A robot team doesn’t have to be made up of identical machines. Amanda Prorok explains how different robots can specialize, take on complementary roles and step in when conditions change, creating a more capable system together. #Robotics…

The hardest jobs to automate are also the hardest jobs to fill. Hundreds of thousands of unfilled manufacturing roles, a retiring workforce, fewer people stepping in. That gap is why Digit exists: to take on the work people have moved away…

“You do not need a robot to collect data to train a robot.” Tony Zhao explains how Sunday Robotics uses inexpensive wearable devices to gather manipulation data, creating a potentially much more scalable alternative to collecting…

Semiconductors may be one of humanity’s most innovative technologies. 💻 Texas Instruments CTO Ahmad Bahai explains how decades of advances in chip design, manufacturing, materials and lithography helped make modern AI, autonomy and…

There are only so many robots and so many hours in the day. 🤖 Carolina Parada of Google DeepMind explains why robot data eventually hits a scaling wall, and why video, simulation and robots learning from their own mistakes could become…

The original Roombas were made in a toy factory. 🤖🧸 Clara Vu explains how iRobot’s work with Hasbro helped the team learn low-cost manufacturing before that experience carried over to Roomba. #Robotics https://t.co/xfWyWzs5WM

Could the path to more general robot intelligence start at home instead of in a factory? @tonyzzhao argues that messy, unpredictable homes force robots to become more adaptable, potentially creating a path from consumer robotics into…

Could the path to more general robot intelligence start at home instead of in a factory? @tonyzzhao argues that messy, unpredictable homes force robots to become more adaptable, potentially creating a path from consumer robotics into…

Could the path to more general robot intelligence start at home instead of in a factory? Tony Zhao argues that messy, unpredictable homes force robots to become more adaptable, potentially creating a path from consumer robotics into…

Humanoid robots are starting to leave the safety cage. @agilityrobotics CEO Peggy Johnson talks Digit 5, 50-lb payloads, ~20 hours of daily operation, expanded warehouse workflows and what it takes to deploy humanoids around people.…

For years, Digit had a bird-like stance, tuned for efficient, dynamic motion. Digit 5 is being engineered with a redesigned leg for the other half of real work: squatting low and lifting heavy, the way a person does when the load's on the…

A robot that works 80% of the time might only be 2% finished. Clara Vu on why edge cases, reliability and exception handling make the jump from robotics prototype to real product so difficult. #Robotics #Automation #PhysicalAI…

🤖 AI robot or just ChatGPT on a body? Dhruv Batra says language isn’t enough. Show the dexterity, navigation and physical understanding. https://t.co/pCfWh92x7L

Jan Liphardt bought a humanoid and robot dogs for his house expecting something out of R2-D2, Terminator or The Matrix. Then the boxes arrived. The humanoid stood up… and just stood there. 🤖 That gap between a robot existing and a robot…

Self-driving took nearly 20 years to go from DARPA challenge to real commercialization. Humanoids may be on a similar clock. Nic Radford on why robotics progress and market readiness rarely move at the same speed. https://t.co/05MK0YvCES