Latest · Product · 13 Jul 2026
Booster Robotics has launched a 1.4-metre humanoid development platform with three end-effector configurations, while its payload, runtime, speed and compute figures remain manufacturer-reported specifications rather than independent test results.
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Must read · Research · 13 Jul 2026
A peer-reviewed perspective proposes moving embodied AI from pre-clinical validation to low-risk tasks before any higher-risk assistive role, while explicitly stopping short of clinical-readiness claims.
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Must read · Research · 13 Jul 2026
An IROS 2026 paper reports that 15.3% of robot utterances in a six-day retail deployment were initiated by customers' nonverbal behaviour, then prototypes a vision-aware response pipeline around those observed cues.
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Must read · Research · 13 Jul 2026
A new preprint presents a compact retargeting-and-reinforcement-learning pipeline for scissors and screwdriver tasks, with the authors reporting zero-shot transfer from simulation to two different physical multi-fingered hands.
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