TacSushi keeps failed food-handling attempts as training lessons ↗
The robot learns from recorded consequences, but unfamiliar ingredients remain difficult. The work appears in this week’s CoRL workshop program.
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ORBIT AI lab revises experiments with human checkpoints ↗
ORBIT connects AI planning with physical experiments, while people approve revised plans.
Sany welders train robots for Ningxiang workshop ↗
A factory visit shows workers overseeing two welding machines as roles shift around automation.
Cainiao ZeeBot robots climb nine-meter racks for Singles’ Day ↗
A fleet of 135 ZeeBot robots handled bin retrieval during Singles’ Day. People still pick and pack individual products, showing the practical boundary of warehouse automation.
Iontronic robot skin handles pencil lead and triggers protective reflexes ↗
A layered readout tackles the traffic from thousands of tactile sensors.
FlexiQuad uses REFLEX to recover controlled flight after wall collisions ↗
A soft airframe survives contact; a separate recovery mode helps restore control.
A three-dimensional map locates 6,648 carbon atoms in graphene ↗
Twelve-picometer precision exposes how two sheets bend, extending atomic imaging to individual carbon atoms.
Laser-driven proton FLASH leaves normal lung cells better able to survive ↗
A cell-culture study investigates protection under nanosecond pulses, not a nanosecond cancer treatment.
MIT muscle-film robot swims with living cells instead of a motor ↗
External light steers two soft fins; the advance is stronger skeletal-muscle films, not the first muscle-powered swimmer.
NUS touchscreen fibres turn a sleeve into an interactive display ↗
The research combines addressable pixels and touch sensing within individual fibres, building on earlier textile displays.
Ice-sphere templates leave protective microcapsules after melting ↗
A thin mobile layer at the ice surface helps form a shell while the contents remain frozen inside.
CEL robots share successful practice to improve phone packaging ↗
A 96-robot training fleet helped reduce test failures from 25 to two, while people still labelled outcomes and reset tasks.
EchoMotion uses smartwatch ultrasound to estimate full-body movement ↗
A watch speaker and microphone replace camera input, with centimetre-scale errors rather than precision motion capture.
SWAG soft robots let clothes unfold around their wearer ↗
The KAIST–Stanford prototype puts dressing assistance into clothing, with preparation and an air supply still required.
A 6.4-gram soft robot carries its own power to walk, swim and glide ↗
Tsinghua researchers combined shape-changing skeletons with adjustable artificial muscles. Their July study demonstrates several movement modes, rather than an autonomous inspection machine.
A 60-Milligram Solar Tag Lets Phones Help Track Butterfly Migration ↗
Nearly 1,750 monarchs carried solar tags in 2026, AP reported. Receiver encounters reveal individual journeys, with gaps and biological limits.
EgoThumb uses a camera to decide when an extra thumb should grip ↗
Visual control shares the work of grasping and releasing with a wearer. A three-person experiment also shows how performance can fall when object locations change.
RES-Q fits overdose rescue hardware inside an injection needle ↗
Miniaturization advances an existing rescue concept, but reliability remains the critical test.
Eve Brings Self-Balancing, Crutch-Free Walking Home ↗
Launched in the US in September, the personal exoskeleton frees eligible users’ hands while requiring a trained companion and tightly restricted walking conditions.
Hydrogel microspheres link carbon dioxide to sugar and starch ↗
A compartmentalized bead pairs light-driven chemistry with bacteria, then feeds engineered yeast. The experimental system still consumes a chemical reagent.