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Biomimetic Robot Hand With Artificial Muscles Targets Humanoid Dexterity Gap

ETH Zurich's SRL printed a biomimetic hand with artificial muscles, tendons, and touch sensors in a single pass — targeting humanoid dexterity's hardest gap.

RoboticsAIApr 17

Northwestern's Modular Robot Designs Its Own Body — Then Runs on It

Northwestern's modular legged robot automatically designs its own body plan and locomotion policy, then operates immediately in outdoor terrain — a landmark in Physical AI.

RoboticsAIBig TechAppleApr 17

LATENT Tennis Humanoid Leads This Week's Humanoid Milestones

LATENT humanoid learns tennis from noisy human data — plus apple-peeling dexterous hands, KAIST humanoid field tests, and glass door perception in this week's Physical AI roundup.

RoboticsAIFigureApr 17

Honda P2 at 30: The 1996 Breakthrough That Made Atlas, Figure, and Optimus Possible

Honda P2, the first robot to walk without falling, receives IEEE Milestone designation 30 years after its 1996 breakthrough that seeded today's commercial humanoid industry.

RoboticsAIHardwareApr 17

Roadrunner Robot Uses One AI Policy for Wheels and Legs

Roadrunner is a 15 kg bipedal wheeled robot using one AI policy for all locomotion modes, with zero-shot hardware deployment demonstrated.

RoboticsAIHardwareSoftwareApr 17

Living Neurobots Challenge Silicon-Based Robotics at Its Foundation

Tufts and Harvard researchers built microscopic robots from living frog cells that self-wire their own nervous systems — no silicon, no code, no actuators.

RoboticsHardwareSpaceApr 17

Radiation-Hardened Wi-Fi Chip Could Unleash Wireless Robots in Nuclear Reactors

A new Wi-Fi receiver chip survived 500 kGy of radiation — 1,000x space-rated tolerance — potentially enabling wireless robots in nuclear decommissioning.

RoboticsAIHardwareCryptoApr 17

AI, Not Hardware, Is Why Humanoid Robots Are Finally Viable

Toyota Research Institute CEO Gill Pratt says AI learning methods — not better hardware — are what finally make humanoid robots commercially viable.

RoboticsAICryptoAgilityApr 14

Video Friday: Digit Learns to Dance—Virtually Overnight

Digit the humanoid robot learns to dance overnight using advanced AI sim-to-real training methods.

RoboticsAISoftwareApr 14

What Happened When We Set Up a Robotics Lab in a Mall

The RAI Institute’s mall pop-up showed how direct robot interaction shifts public perception and acceptance across diverse environments.

RoboticsSoftwareSpaceApr 14

GoZTASP: A Zero-Trust Platform for Governing Autonomous Systems at Mission Scale

GoZTASP is a zero-trust platform ensuring secure, resilient governance of autonomous systems across mission-critical environments.

RoboticsAIApr 14

Video Friday: This Floor Lamp Will Do Your Chores

Lume is a sculptural floor lamp robot designed to perform chores like folding laundry, alongside advances in soft muscles and AI for robots.