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- 🗓️ 2026-10-22 · ✍️ RoboterminalEka's Robot Picks 1,500 Things an Hour. Its Gripper Is Rated for About 139 Days of That.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-21 · ✍️ RoboterminalSchaeffler Will Buy Thousands of Humanoids From Its Actuator Customers. Its €400 Million Order Book Doesn't Count Those Deals.
- 🗓️ 2026-10-19 · ✍️ RoboterminalFifteen Humanoids Are Loading Car Parts at 98%. The Number That Decides Their Future Is 15 Seconds.
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What changed, and what is the evidence.
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A robot that drives straight up a wall! 🧱 VertiGo is a robot built by Disney Research with ETH Zürich. Most wall-climbing robots hold on. Suction cups, magnets, dry adhesives. All of them need a surface that cooperates, and none of them… |
Is Zurich really the capital of robotics in Europe? 🇪🇺 Well, if you look at their robotics ecosystem, it seems true! 👀 SPOILER: Zurich robotics ecosystem is that BIG, that describing it I exceeded X post standard length (so decided to… |
Disney was exploring robotic design long before the current robotics boom. 🤖 This research shows how Disney Research worked on computational methods to optimize robotic mechanisms and motion. The interesting part is that the system can… |