Scientists develop virtual tomato training arena for agricultural robots

Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have developed a method for creating realistic virtual tomato farms that ...

Robots For Real-World Work: Training Challenges And How To Solve Them

A robot that performs well in a controlled simulation can struggle when real-world conditions don't match what it was trained ...
Los Angeles Times

Silicon Valley’s humanoid robots are learning how to do your job — in the kitchen

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A growing workforce of robot controllers is teaching humanoids to move like people so they can work in factories ...
Interesting Engineering

NVIDIA research shows robots trained in simulation can handle real-world tasks

Robots trained entirely in simulation are beginning to perform more reliably in the real world, according to a series of new robotics research papers presented by NVIDIA at the In ...
GitHub

PhysTwin: Physics-Informed Reconstruction and Simulation of Deformable Objects from Videos

Actively Developing: In the long term, we aim to develop a comprehensive physics simulator focused on real-to-sim, serving as an easy-to-use platform for XR, VR, and robotics applications. Feel free ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Meet ‘Gabi,’ the Robot That Just Became a Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea. It’s the Latest Robot to Take Up Religious Practice

Nicknamed “Gabi,” the humanoid robot monk took part in ceremonies at a temple in Seoul this week. Lee Jin-man / AP At first glance, the ceremony held Wednesday morning at a Buddhist temple in downtown ...
kr-asia

Style3D’s fashion tech offers unexpected answer to a tough robotics problem

Image source: Style3D. The company has unveiled SynReal, a system designed to narrow the gap in deformable object simulation. In late April, Manycore Tech listed in Hong Kong, with its shares surging ...
Wired

I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different

A robot’s claw hurtles toward a light bulb on a table. I wince, waiting for the crunch. But suddenly the claw decelerates. It starts gingerly pawing around the table, as if searching for its glasses ...
The New York Times

The Killer Robots Are Coming. The Battlefield Will Never Look the Same.

Ukraine is using unmanned ground vehicles armed with bombs, guns or rockets to carry out attacks and keep its soldiers out of harm’s way. By Maria Varenikova Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine The robots ...
Digi Times

Foxconn shifts US plant from simulation to operation with AI-driven factory setup

Foxconn's US AI factories could reshape global electronics supply chains by accelerating US-based AI server production and offering a replicable smart factory model for overseas sites. The company's ...
TechCrunch

This simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI

The promise of physical AI is that engineers will be able to program physical agents the same way they do digital ones. We’re not there yet. Robotics is still held back by a paucity of data from ...
NPR

In the brain, objects seen and imagined follow the same neural path

It's often called the mind's eye. "I can look at an object in the world around me, but I can also close my eyes and imagine the object," says Varun Wadia, a brain scientist at Cedars-Sinai Medical ...