# Weekly Robotics > Weekly newsletter on robotics, drones, and AI — curated links, demos, research, and open-source projects. Published since August 2018 by Mat Sadowski. Each issue has a number (e.g. #361, #360). Canonical issue URLs: `https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-{N}/`. The archive has 378+ issues; use the Atom feed or sitemap for complete coverage. - **Schedule:** typically weekly (Mondays) - **Audience:** thousands of robotics engineers, researchers, and builders (6181+ email subscribers, 7804+ on X/Twitter) - **Advertising:** one of the best spaces to promote robotics products, hiring, and services to that audience — see [Advertise](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/advertise/) for sponsorship options and stats - **Formats:** [website](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/), [email](http://eepurl.com/dEGD4n), [Atom/RSS](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/atom.xml), [LinkedIn newsletter](https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/weekly-robotics-6876232276443713536/) - **Contact:** contact@weeklyrobotics.com ## Start here - [Home](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/): Latest issues and subscribe - [About](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/About/): Mission and how to contribute - [Archive](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/archive/): All newsletter issues - [Articles](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/Articles/): Long-form robotics writing - [Events](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/events/): Robotics event calendar - [Atom feed](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/atom.xml): Machine-readable feed (10 most recent issues) ## Recent issues - [Issue #371](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-371/): Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: Gemini Robotics 2, a place to find your next robot dataset, how it is to build large construction robots, the legacy of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, and more! - [Issue #370](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-370/): In Weekly Robotics 370, you'll learn about designing an underground robot scheduler, an open-source L2 autopilot, the problem with robot-centric deployment data for general robots, an interesting flat-packed fixed-wing, and more! - [Issue #369](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-369/): Weekly Robotics 369: a new robotic hand on the block, an aerial autonomy stack, a robot that got stuck in the hallway, puffin-inspired robot, and more! - [Issue #368](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-368/): Weekly Robotics 368: an agile robot hand, building an over-engineered tiny rover, a clay 3D printer, a free course on VLAs that you can run on your PC, and more! - [Issue #367](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-367/): Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: 100 years of humanoid robot developments, self-supervised learning for multimodal data with OctoSense, a NASA orbit bump mission, a robot arm tying a knot, and more! - [Issue #366](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-366/): Today in Weekly Robotics: notes from a robotics field challenge, a blueprint for generalized robot autonomy, robot dog extinguishing fires, and more! - [Issue #365](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-365/): Today in Weekly Robotics: UX for a home robot, Qwen Robot Suite, how to build a research robot that lives next to your desk, field-testing space rovers at JPL, and more! - [Issue #364](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-364/): Weekly Robotics 364: quadrupeds help people with limited mobility, SwarmGPT, how to keep an old space rover going, a new robot-learning online course, and more! - [Issue #363](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-363/): Weekly Robotics 363: a benchmark for humanoids, robotics as a pre-paradigm field, kilometer-scale navigation for UAVs without GNSS, autonomous mapping with VSLAM using a cheap rover, how I was close to destroying my 3D printer, and more! - [Issue #362](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-362/): Today in the Weekly Robotics newsletter: how to build a shitty robot, the best way to learn Point Cloud Library (PCL), reconfigurable space robots, lessons learned from using classical approach in a robotics AI challenge, and more! - [Issue #361](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-361/): Weekly Robotics 361: DIY Disney's inspired BD-X droid, state estimation in contact-rich scenarios (very cool!), reverse engineering Unitree Go2 motors, ROS 2 Lyrical released, and more! - [Issue #360](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/weekly-robotics-360/): Today in Weekly Robotics: Honeybees teach drones to navigate, how to test rotor blades for a Mars mission, a ride-in bipedal, Japan's robot wolf supply issue, fine control of excavators, and more! ## Long-form articles - [Rethinking Drone Autonomy in GPS-Denied Environments](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/articles/2026_04_07_rethinking_drone_autonomy_gps_denied/): Autonomous drones depend on accurate positioning to navigate safely. In forests, cities, and search-and-rescue environments, that assumption often breaks. Th... - [From Prototype to Production: The Supply Chain Gap Robotics Teams Keep Hitting](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/articles/2026_04_05_from_prototype_to_production_supply_chain_gap/): Recently, I talked to Adar Hay, CEO of Jiga, about supply chains in robotics and why moving from prototypes to production is so hard—and why the right manufa... - [A Roboticist’s First Time at the European Robotics Forum](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/articles/2025_04_04_erf_2025/): This week, I attended the European Robotics Forum 2025, which took place in Stuttgart from the 25th to the 27th of March. Since I’m mostly used to academic c... - [Thoughts on ROSCon 2023](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/articles/2023_10_29_roscon_2023/): The other day, I had the pleasure of attending ROSCon 2023 in New Orleans. This post summarizes some of the highlights of the event and my experience. It's h... - [A beginners’ guide to ICRA](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/articles/2023_06_11_begnners_guide_to_icra/): In this article, Ben Dart is describing his experience attending ICRA and provides recommendations for anyone looking to attend a conference like this. - [SYCL for GPU-Based Perception Libraries](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/articles/2023_05_06_sycl_for_gpu_based_perception_libraries/): Perception libraries are the visual cortex of the robot, enabling them to make sense of the world around them. With the ever-decreasing cost and rise in powe... - [The Realm of Sampling-Based Planning](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/articles/2023_04_21_sampling_based_planners/): This article explores sample-based planning and in particular Rapidly-exploring Random Trees - [The History of Turtle Robots](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/articles/2023_01_25_the_history_of_turtle_robots/): In this blog post we look at the history of Turtle Robots - [Robotics in 2022 - the most interesting applications, research and DIY projects](https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/articles/2023_01_04_robotics_in_2022/): The article in front of you is a subjective selection of the most exciting robotics projects and news that made it to the Weekly Robotics in 2022. 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