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Humanoid robots promise a multi-trillion-dollar market, but pose challenges

Robotics Business Review

Agility Robotics’ Digit humanoid was in trials at GXO. Source: Agility Robotics As an early investor in Agility Robotics, now one of the world’s leading manufacturers of humanoid robots, I’ve watched as humanoids have evolved from a fascinating concept to reality over the past five years.

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Materials science helps lighten the load for this space shuttle

Design World

SABIC recently announced the companys collaboration with Branch Technology to develop lightweight panels to restore the exterior of the Pathfinder, an early test article for the NASA space shuttle orbiter.

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How Agility Robotics crosses the Sim2Real gap with NVIDIA Isaac Lab

Robotics Business Review

At Agility Robotics, we are working with our humanoid robot Digit, which balances actively at all times, can recover from unexpected bumps, and can lift and move heavy things. Training Digit in simulation through NVIDIA’s tools designed for robotics. There are 28 degrees of freedom and quite a few sensors.

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Opinion: ‘Specialized robots – not humanoids – will dominate robotics’, says Exotec CEO

Robotics Automation News

In an opinion piece published on the Forbes website, Romain Moulin, CEO of Exotec, argues that specialized robots, designed for specific tasks, are more efficient and cost-effective than humanoid robots. Moulin […]

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NVIDIA heralds ‘physical AI’ era with Cosmos platform launch

Robotics Business Review

Instead of producing text, it produces action tokens How is this different from traditional robotics? Traditional robots are typically pre-programmed to perform specific, repetitive tasks in controlled environments. These components form an integrated platform for physics-aware world modeling and video generation.

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Australian factory workers must prepare for industry 4.0, says new article

Manufacturer's Monthly

The technologies factory workers, such as shipbuilders, will soon rely on include augmented reality head-mounted display modules (AR-HMD) according to a new article published in Ergonomics. This involved multiple tasks (electrical assembly, inspection, and quality assurance) with a collaborative robot fitted with a visual inspection camera.

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UC Berkeley’s AI-powered robot learns Jenga whipping

Robotics Business Review

At UC Berkeley, researchers in Sergey Levines Robotic AI and Learning Lab eyed a table where a tower of 39 Jenga blocks stood perfectly stacked. Then a white-and-black robot, its single limb doubled over like a hunched-over giraffe, zoomed toward the tower, brandishing a black leather whip.