Weekly Robotics #336
Next week, I'm giving a talk on robotics at InfoShare, one of the biggest tech conferences in my region. As always, I'm looking forward to talking robotics and hype things up a little bit. Working on that presentation made me realise how many cool robotics demos there are (MindOn from today's issue definitely comes to mind). At the same time, I can't shake the feeling that we are seeing the best runs. I'm eagerly awaiting the times when someone actually gets to test these robots in their home without a manufacturer in the loop and showing us the real limitations.
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Breaking Down The New Cool Home Robot Demo from MindOn
Shenzhen-based MindOn Tech showcased a Unitree humanoid performing household chores with remarkably fluid movements. In this article, Chris Paxton dissects the video and discusses the skills and the robot’s performance.
Depth Anything 3: Recovering the Visual Space from Any Views
We present Depth Anything 3 (DA3), a model that predicts spatially consistent geometry from an arbitrary number of visual inputs, with or without known camera poses. In pursuit of minimal modeling, DA3 yields two key insights: a single plain transformer (e.g., vanilla DINOv2 encoder) is sufficient as a backbone without architectural specialization, and a singular depth-ray prediction target obviates the need for complex multi-task learning. Through our teacher-student training paradigm, the model achieves a level of detail and generalization on par with Depth Anything 2 (DA2).
A machine to sort a million pounds of LEGO
In this video, LegoSpencer and basically, created a LEGO sorting machine without any prior experience with electronics or robotics. I really enjoyed watching this design process.
Robot Crash Course: Learning Soft and Stylized Falling
Disney Research is conducting interesting experiments. They taught the robot a set of stylized poses that it targets during the fall, minimizing fall damage and protecting vulnerable bits. All this while looking very cool when down.
Robots are eating the world that software could not
At Foxglove, we have just finalized a $40 million Series B. I’m particularly looking forward to taking multimodal visualization to the next level!
Stainless Infinity Cube - mitxela.com
Mitxela did another very detailed documentation of his project. This time, documenting the production of a stainless steel infinity cube. I really enjoyed this build log!
Events
- ROSCon FR & DE 2025: Nov 17 - Nov 20, 2025. Strasbourg, France
- Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) Session, ICCMA 2025: Nov 24 - Nov 26, 2025 (ddl: Aug 20, 2025). Paris, France
- European Robotics Week: Dec 03 - Dec 04, 2025. Tallinn, Estonia
- iREX 2025 — International Robot Exhibition: Dec 03 - Dec 06, 2025. Tokyo, JP
- ROSCon India 2025: Dec 18 - Dec 20, 2025. Pune, India
- FOSDEM 2026: Jan 31 - Feb 01, 2026. Brussels, Belgium
- Embedded World 2026: Mar 10 - Mar 12, 2026. Nuremberg, Germany
- European Robotics Forum: Mar 23 - Mar 27, 2026. Stavanger, Norway
- Commercial UAV Forum: Apr 22 - Apr 23, 2026. Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Open Hardware Summit: May 22 - May 23, 2026. Berlin, Germany
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