Weekly Robotics 377:
> Robot policies vs safety (a must-read!),
> how to win a DARPA heavy lift challenge,
> streamlining a SpaceX Raptor engine,
> a robot hand that crawls,
and more!
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Today in Weekly Robotics:
🤖 A modular skid-steer UGV you can build yourself,
🤖 a winning SLAM implementation,
🤖 balancing a pole with propellers,
🤖 GPT-6 for robotic manipulation,
... and more!
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Weekly Robotics 374:
> an insanely cheap robot duck,
> a guide to autodocking,
> highlights from the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games,
> Claude Code driving an R/C car,
and more!
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Weekly Robotics 373 is here!
> How to train robots at a million-hour scale,
> NASA abandons satellite rescue mission,
> ROS enters the Physical AI world,
> A construction digger interface,
and more!
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Today in Weekly Robotics: DARPA Heavy Lift challange results and a fail video, create your own gripper fingers, truly modular robot architecture for both software and hardware, and more!
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Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter:
> Gemini Robotics 2,
> a place to find your next robot dataset,
> how it is to build large construction robots,
> the legacy of the DARPA Robotics Challenge,
and more!
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In Weekly Robotics 370, you'll learn about:
🤖 designing an underground robot scheduler,
🤖 an open-source L2 autopilot,
🤖 the problem with robot-centric deployment data for general robots,
🤖 an interesting flat-packed fixed-wing,
... and more!
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Weekly Robotics 369:
🤖 a new robotic hand on the block,
🤖 an aerial autonomy stack,
🤖 a robot that got stuck in the hallway,
🤖 puffin-inspired robot,
... and more!
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Weekly Robotics 368:
🤖 an agile robot hand from 1X,
🤖 building an over-engineered tiny rover,
🤖 a clay 3D printer,
🤖 a free course on VLAs that you can run on your PC,
... and more!
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Today in Weekly Robotics:
🤖 notes from a robotics field challenge,
🤖 a blueprint for generalized robot autonomy,
🤖 robot dog extinguishing fires,
... and more!
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Weekly Robotics 365:
🤖 UX for a home robot,
🤖 Qwen Robot Suite,
🤖 How to build a research robot that lives next to your desk,
🤖 Field-testing space rovers at JPL,
... and more!
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Weekly Robotics 364:
🤖 quadrupeds help people with limited mobility,
🤖 SwarmGPT,
🤖 how to keep an old space rover going,
🤖 a new robot-learning online course,
... and more!
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Weekly Robotics 363:
🤖 a benchmark for humanoids,
🤖 robotics as a pre-paradigm field,
🤖 kilometer-scale navigation for UAVs without GNSS,
🤖 autonomous mapping with VSLAM using a cheap rover,
🤖 how I was close to destroying my 3D printer,
and more!
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Today in the newsletter:
🤖 how to build a shitty robot,
🤖 the best way to learn Point Cloud Library (PCL),
🤖 reconfigurable space robots,
🤖 lessons learned from using the classical approaches in a robotics AI challenge,
... and more!
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Today in Weekly Robotics:
🤖 Honeybees teach drones to navigate,
🤖 how to test rotor blades for a Mars mission,
🤖 a ride-in bipedal,
🤖Japan's robot wolf supply issue,
🤖fine control of excavators,
and more!
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