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For the first time, scientists have shown that a greedy Lyapunov algorithm—originally written for simple linear systems—can be lifted to a r
Researchers have assembled the largest private‑access Egocentric Tennis Video (ETV) collection yet. 85 rally sequences were recorded with a
A new supernumerary robotic thumb called EgoThumb improves the ability of a single hand to hold and manipulate small items. It is attached t
Researchers unveiled World Dreamer v5‑lite, a model that predicts separate action sequences for each robot while drawing on camera views fro
Main discovery FLoRe is a framework that learns force‑reactive humanoid loco‑manipulation from robot‑free demonstrations that record both mo
Main discovery VioLA is a generalist humanoid policy that predicts compact motion codes (latents) for body and hands. A frozen, pretrained b
Researchers introduce ARC, a reasoning recipe that substantially improves zero-shot task performance of state-of-the-art robot foundation mo
Robots that handle objects today tend to rely on their hands or simple end-effectors. Humans, by contrast, routinely press, brace and slide
A team of researchers reports a modular system that uses vision and a small onboard language model to give unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) c
Spacecraft inspection — the work of photographing and identifying parts of a satellite or space station from a nearby servicer or inspection