Win a golden ticket to Nvidia GTC! Only for cool robots of course
And here are some of the videos from the 2024 Humanoids Summit, including Dancing With Robots and Sanctuary AI.
Add your robots to Jim Fan’s Linked In post (via his comments section)! What a great opportunity and I don’t see too many cool robots yet, aside from maybe NASA JPL’s ROSA, Rainier Labs Quadruped Platform, and some nice research projects on tactile sensing, zero shot learning etc.
Physical AI is a civilizational technology. In a few years, intelligent robots will be as many as iPhones. I'd love to see your coolest open-source robotics project: model, simulation, hardware, you name it! Reply with links, and I'll pick one winner for the NVIDIA GTC Golden Ticket:
- Complimentary GTC 2025 conference pass
- Special seating for Jensen's keynote!
- An invitation to attend the World’s Shortest Hackathon
- An invitation to a special happy hour ;)
From the vaults - some videos from the 2024 Humanoids Summit
Dexterous Intelligence for the Enterprise - James Wells, CEO of Sanctuary AI
Dancing with Robots - Catie Cuan and Ken Goldberg
Hey roboticists!
The next speaker at the CITRIS Autonomy Series at UC Berkeley on Feb 25th is Terry Fong, Chief Roboticist, NASA Ames Research Center; Deputy Rover Manager, VIPER Lunar Mission, NASA talking about “The NASA Volatiles Inspecting Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) Mission”. The seminar is free and open to the public.
Urban Machines are selling their old picker cell at auction, and are willing to take a bargain basement offer on it so that you can harvest it for parts. It has like 26 clearpath servos in there each worth about $500. Probably 15-20k worth of parts total. So lots of valuable components for someone willing to take it apart. Here's a link: https://svdisposition.hibid.com/lot/225906731/nail-picking-machine
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Perception Challenge for Bin Picking - We invite you to join our Intrinsic Bin Picking Challenge, featuring $60k in prizes! The competition runs from February 1st to May 1st, and winners will present their solutions at the workshop. This challenge is organized by OpenCV in collaboration with Intrinsic, BOP, Orbbec, and the University of Hawaii. Learn More About the Challenge
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Robotics News
Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling - ArsTechnica
Meet Wang Xingxing, the young Chinese robotics star from Unitree at Xi Jinping’s symposium - South China Morning Post
SPVs Are Circling Robotics Startup’s $40 Billion Valuation Funding Round - The Information
Ant Group enters AI robotics sector to build China’s humanoid workforce - Yahoo Finance
Humanoid robots are no longer sci-fi fodder, but still a work in progress - R&D World
AI humanoid robots inch their way toward the workforce - CIO
Figure’s humanoid robot takes voice orders to help around the house - TechCrunch
Into the Omniverse: How OpenUSD and Synthetic Data Are Shaping the Future for Humanoid Robots - Nvidia Blog
Reinforcement Learning Triples Spot’s Running Speed - IEEE Spectrum
How to get a robot collective to act like a smart material - The Current
IdeaForge and Vantage Robotics Partner to Expand UAV Solutions Across India and the U.S. - dronelife
Overland AI opens new factory in Seattle to manufacture off-road autonomous vehicles - GeekWire
Microsoft’s Magma AI Can Manipulate and Control Robots - CNET
Study brings exposure to Carbon Robotics’ weeder - FarmProgress
Lab0: Robotics system first to fully automate inbound warehouse ops - FreightWaves
Nvidia-Backed Robotics Startup Field Targets $2 Billion Valuation - The Information
Gecko Robotics CEO: How I bucked the trend of Silicon Valley’s monopoly on frontier tech - Fortune
DOGE cuts nearly half of unit overseeing autonomous vehicles safety, report says - CNBC
Robot, take the wheel: What you need to know about autonomous vehicles rolling out across the U.S. - Mashable
Smooth, silent, strange: What it’s really like to hail a robotaxi - Mashable
Categorizing robots by performance fitness into the tree of robots - Nature
Robotics Events
HRI 2025 Melbourne Australia March 4 - March 6
ProMat 2025 Chicago IL Mar 17 - Mar 20
Nvidia GTC San Jose Mar 16-21
European Robotics Forum Mar 25-27
Automate Detroit May 12-15
ICRA 2025 Atlanta Georgia 17 May - 23 May 2025
CVPR Nashville Tennessee - June 11-15
Hard Tech Venture Summit & Startup Manufacturing Workshop - June 19-20
Future Monozukuri Osaka Japan 16 July -19 July 2025
Join the organizing team at Silicon Valley Robotics - bots&beer@svrobo.org
