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Humanoid Robots Achieve Dexterous Manipulation at Human Speed
New research from MIT CSAIL demonstrates bipedal robots performing complex assembly tasks with sub-millimeter precision, matching human dexterity benchmarks for the first time.
RT-X: A Generalist Robot Policy Trained on 1M+ Demonstrations
Google DeepMind's cross-embodiment model transfers skills across 22 robot types with zero fine-tuning.
1,000-Unit Drone Swarm Completes Autonomous Infrastructure Inspection
ETH Zurich's distributed control algorithm enables large-scale coordinated flight with no central orchestration.
Intel's Loihi 3 Cuts Robot Perception Latency by 94%
Event-driven spiking neural networks now enable real-time obstacle avoidance at under 2ms response time.
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Robotics Lead, Stanford AI Lab
"Robot Metabolism is where I find signal in the noise — the discussions here are sharper than any conference hallway conversation I've had."
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Is sim-to-real transfer finally solved? Lessons from the latest Isaac Lab benchmarks
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Funding landscape for early-stage robotics startups in 2026 — what's changed?
Best tactile sensors for in-hand manipulation research under $500?
Where the community gathers
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IROS 2026 — Dubai
Oct 5
2026
Foundation Models for Robotics: State of the Art
Oct 14
2026
Robot Metabolism SF Meetup
Nov 3
2026
CoRL 2026 — Conference on Robot Learning
Dec 9
2026