Robots did some weird stuff in May, like moonwalking themselves to death and drowning in a harbor

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The tea leaves were only the beginning: China’s robots found out why real work is harder outside the lab

China has sent humanoid robots into the tea mountains of Fujian, not for a clean laboratory demo, but for the messy work of ...
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Robots learn to recover from dangerous stair falls using smart stabilising system

Robots that navigate staircases still face a major safety problem as losing balance often ...
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Why robots still struggle to see the real world

Making machine perception reliable enough for real deployment requires more than better AI; it requires properly calibrated ...
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Humanoid Robot Hype Meets an 88% Household Task Fail Rate

Stanford’s AI Index says humanoid robots still fail 88% of household tasks, exposing a wide gap between lab gains and the reality of home use.
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Designing Resilient Soft Robots Using Controlled Failure Mechanisms

How can programmed failure protocols help improve sheet-based fluidic devices, the latter of which have become a cornerstone in enhancing soft robotics worldwide? This is what a recent study published ...
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Watch: Figure’s humanoid robots work for 200 hours, process 250k packages without failure

US robotics company Figure AI has completed a 200-hour autonomous livestream using its Figure ...