Latest News

1. Hugging Face has acquired French humanoid robotics startup Pollen Robotics (Link: https://www.pollen-robotics.com/ ;Thoughts: The 7-DOF dual-arm wrist joint design of Pollen Robotics’ open-source Reachy 2 is quite intriguing. Refer to their official docs for details).
2. A CMU team has released the unified aerial manipulation framework Flying Hand, comprising a single omnidirectional hexarotor UAV and a 4-DOF robotic arm. It supports multi-task teleoperation and imitation learning (Project link: https://lecar-lab.github.io/flying_hand/).
3. Beijing’s Yizhuang district will host the world’s first humanoid robot half-marathon on April 19, with 20 teams participating. The event will feature humanoid robots running alongside human athletes on separate tracks, marking a pioneering achievement in blending robotics with sports.
4. Samsung has unveiled its home companion robot Ballie, now integrated with Google’s Gemini AI. Ballie offers natural conversational interactions and assists users in managing their home environment (Official site: https://www.samsung.com/global/home-robot-ballie/ ;YouTube Demo; Thoughts: The prototype was first announced in 2020. The current design has evolved from the initial version and the one showcased at CES 2024. It is set to launch in South Korea and the U.S. this summer).
5. Sangbae Kim has joined Meta as a robotics architect (LinkedIn Post; Thoughts: Sangbae is renowned for his quadruped robot developed at MIT, which achieved the world’s first backflip in 2018 and served as an inspiration for Boston Dynamics’ SPOT).
6. The national standard “Test Methods for Dynamic Stability of Industrial Robots” has been officially released (Link: https://std.samr.gov.cn/gb/search/gbDetailed?id=0DF2F13A31ED3E55E06397BE0A0A296C).
7. Daimon Robotics has launched its first multi-dimensional visuotactile sensor DM-Tac W, five-finger dexterous hand DM-Hand1, and teleoperation data collection system DM-Exton (Link: https://www.dmrobot.com/products/).
8. Google has introduced DolphinGemma, trained to learn dolphin vocal structures and generate similar sound sequences (Blog link: https://blog.google/technology/ai/dolphingemma/. Related project: Google’s whale vocalization recognition model).

Featured Projects

1. A group from Peking University has released a 2-DoF wrist joint driven by artificial muscles (Paper link: https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.05508 ).
2. BOTA has introduced the PixONE Series through-hole force-torque sensors, featuring embedded 6-DoF IMUs for real-time fusion of torque and pose sensing (Link: https://www.botasys.com/force-torque-sensors/pixone).
3. A review article on data generation applications for visuotactile sensors discusses multimodal dataset generation methods based on physical and learning-based visuotactile sensors (Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2025.103162).
4. A group from Nanyang Technological University has released CADCrafter, a latent space generation framework based on VAE and Diffusion Transformer. It can accurately generate structurally clear CAD modeling instructions from a single image, aligning with geometric features (Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04753).