Lukas Ziegler
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- Minerva exits stealth with Roger, a hazmat humanoid
The company says a specialist drives the robot from a command post, and it is not pitching full autonomy.
- RobCo crosses a $1 billion valuation in nine months
Modular arms sold as a service get a unicorn tag, while MicroAGI names Animesh Garg as Chief Research Officer and bets on post-training.
- NYU's eFlesh is a $5 tactile sensor you 3D print yourself
Four parts, a hobbyist printer and under five dollars of magnets, with all design files and trained models released openly.
- FANUC cobot takes spoken commands, trained before the arm existed
Lukas Ziegler says the team built the policy against a digital twin because the physical hardware was not available yet.
- OM-1 unplugs an Ethernet cable, and the video is 1x speed
Reward AI's new foundation model drew praise from Chris Paxton for a task most robots fumble.
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- Watney raises $80M for data center robots
The company says it runs the largest fleet of dexterous robots operating around the clock in the United States, and every number in that claim is its own.
- RAI's AthenaZero throws a baseball at 113 km/h
The pitch is a stunt. The number under it is 3.97 kg of effective mass at the wrist.
- ETH Zurich robot hand walks around on its own fingers
No wheels, no legs, no separate drive mechanism, and the power and compute ride onboard.
- Agility's Digit 5 drops the bird legs, claims 22.7 kg lifts
New legs, a two-finger gripper and a safety controller that can cut motor power, all of it company spec for now.
- Pathak verified Skild's $100M ARR in person, Scott says
The number is contract-based recurring revenue, not units shipped, and it landed the same week Agility's SPAC filing showed $1.8M in revenue.
- ETH Zurich humanoid swings across monkey bars on raw lidar
The policy skips the terrain map entirely and feeds sparse lidar returns straight into an attention encoder.
- OpenArm open-sources a humanoid, CAD to teleop
Lukas Ziegler profiled the Tokyo project, which sells as a kit or prebuilt and shows no task demos.
- Bleu humanoid learned machine tending from six demos
A trade show deployment with a real laser engraver in the loop, reported by one person who posted the numbers.
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