🔥5 years of RoboMaster NA → UC San Diego June 23-28

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Who takes the 1v1 crown? 🥇
How many cubes will Engineers stack? 📦

20 days to find out! ⏰

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🤖 RoboTO - tackling cutting-edge technological challenges and "engineering the future one robot at a time!"

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Scientists find strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet's atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.

Life? Strongest hint yet. Webb telescope has detected two gases (dimethyl sulfide and dimethyl disulfide) on a habitable zone planet 124 light years away that are only produced on Earth by living organisms. This is the first such observation and incredibly exciting. www.reuters.com/science/scie...

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📣 Emergency Alert - Killer Cop Robots

CA-SB-93 is going to hearing tomorrow, April 1st. This bill bans killer robots but has a specific carve out for cops. Do you want cops showing up to a protest with an armed robot? Of course not.

Boston Dynamics sponsored the bill.

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I guess that's what you're using? Lidar collision checking at this scale should basically be instant.

Video Friday: Meet Mech, a Superhumanoid Robot Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. European Robotics Forum : 25–27 March 2025, STUTTGART, GERMANY RoboSoft 2025 : 23–26 April 2025, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND ICUAS 2025 : 14–17 May 2025, CHARLOTTE, NC ICRA 2025 : 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA, GA London Humanoids Summit : 29–30 May 2025, LONDON IEEE RCAR 2025 : 1–6 June 2025, TOYAMA, JAPAN 2025 Energy Drone & Robotics Summit : 16–18 June 2025, HOUSTON, TX RSS 2025 : 21–25 June 2025, LOS ANGELES ETH Robotics Summer School : 21–27 June 2025, GENEVA IAS 2025 : 30 June–4 July 2025, GENOA, ITALY ICRES 2025 : 3–4 July 2025, PORTO, PORTUGAL IEEE World Haptics : 8–11 July 2025, SUWON, KOREA IFAC Symposium on Robotics : 15–18 July 2025, PARIS RoboCup 2025 : 15–21 July 2025, BAHIA, BRAZIL Enjoy today’s videos! Every time you see a humanoid demo in a warehouse or factory, ask yourself: Would a “superhumanoid” like this actually be a better answer? [ Dexterity ] The only reason that this is the second video in Video Friday this week, and not the first, is because you’ve almost certainly already seen it. This is a collaboration between the Robotics and AI Institute and Boston Dynamics , and RAI has its own video, which is slightly different: - YouTube [ Boston Dynamics ] via [ RAI ] Well this just looks a little bit like magic. [ University of Pennsylvania Sung Robotics Lab ] After hours of dance battles with professional choreographers (yes, real human dancers!), PM01 now nails every iconic move from Kung Fu Hustle. [ EngineAI ] Sanctuary AI has demonstrated industry-leading sim-to-real transfer of learned dexterous manipulation policies for our unique, high degree-of-freedom, high strength, and high speed hydraulic hands. [ Sanctuary AI ] This video is “introducing BotQ, Figure’s new high-volume manufacturing facility for humanoid robots,” but I just see some injection molding and finishing of a few plastic parts. [ Figure ] DEEP Robotics recently showcased its “One-Touch Navigation” feature, enhancing the intelligent control experience of its robotic dog. This feature offers two modes: map-based point selection and navigation and video-based point navigation, designed for open terrains and confined spaces respectively. By simply typing on a tablet screen or selecting a point in the video feed, the robotic dog can autonomously navigate to the target point, automatically planning its path and intelligently avoiding obstacles, significantly improving traversal efficiency. What’s in the bags, though? [ Deep Robotics ] This hurts my knees to watch, in a few different ways. [ Unitree ] Why the recent obsession with two legs when instead robots could have six? So much cuter! [ Jizai ] via [ RobotStart ] The world must know: who killed Mini-Duck? [ Pollen ] Seven hours of Digit robots at work at ProMat. And there are two more days of these livestreams if you need more! [ Agility ]

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If you wrote the lidar computations in C++ you could pybind them in

spanny 2: Rise of C++ std::mdspan - Griswald Brooks - CppCon 2024 YouTube video by CppCon

@cppcon.org.web.brid.gy talk just dropped! Learn how #mdspan can help you do more than just make matricies 😀
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Robotics Simulation for better Development - Griswald Brooks YouTube video by Muhammad Luqman

Had fun being on Muhammad Luqman's podcast. Nice for him to be discussing a diversity of topics for those entering the field.
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🎉 rmw_zenoh binaries for Rolling, Jazzy and Humble Hi everyone, New year, new RMW! We’ve released rmw_zenoh binaries for ROS 2 Rolling, Jazzy and Humble on respective Ubuntu (amd64, arm64) and RHEL (amd64) platforms. The package can be installed ...

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Fair point

I only follow robot people and try to limit my political intake on social media

I have a friend who just did the same thing

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