We zip-tied an Opteran dev kit to a Unitree G1 humanoid.
In under 4 hours, it was building maps and navigating indoors and out. No LiDAR, no infrastructure, no training -just vision, leg odometry, and the Opteran Mind.
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🏆 We’re proud to share that Opteran has won a 2025 #RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award
This year’s award recognizes our collaboration with Airbus Defence and Space and the European Space Agency - ESA, and how mobile robot OEMs are now accessing the simplicity and effectiveness of Opteran Mind.
Delighted to announce that Dr Mike Mangan, VP Research at Opteran ltd, will give a plenary "Opteran: Reverse engineering insect brains to create minds for machines" at Living Machines 2025, Sheffield this July. CfP open till April 14th livingmachinesconference.eu/2025/plenary... @opteran.bsky.social
Nature continues to offer solutions to autonomy and robotics challenges 🐜
Professor Barbara Webb, a member of Opteran's Academic Advisory Board and a pioneer in insect-inspired robotics, has co-led research on a prototype ‘hairy robotic gripper’ inspired by ant mandibles.
#NaturalIntelligence
Opteran CEO David Rajan delivered the industry keynote at CAM Innovators' Day 2025.
The UK’s #AI Action plan aims to be "AI makers, not takers"-but what intelligence should we make? David challenged the idea autonomy must rely on data-driven AI and showed the UK can lead with natural intelligence.
🐜 What can desert ants teach kidnapped robots?
In Seville, Spain, Opteran’s Dr Michael Mangan studied how these insects solve the 'kidnapped robot problem'—a challenge in robotics where a machine must reorient after being displaced.
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#Autonomy #AI #Robots #Ants
What's ahead for mobile robots in 2025? From overcoming complexity to rethinking AI’s role in autonomy - here are the trends, challenges, and opportunities we expect to see this year.
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#MobileRobots #Automation #AMR #AGV #AI #SLAM