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The robot arm that put its motors in the basement
Disney Research's fluid transmission delivers 4.5 Nm at 120 grams by moving the motors to the torso — and moves robot-cell safety from software into hardware.
Matador Lost Its Head — and the Only Thing Left to Watch Was the Software
A T800 humanoid lost its head at Shenzhen's URKL tournament — 32 teams, one chassis, $1.44M belt. The real story is the safety envelope the policy ignored.
The Robot That Clicks Your Buttons: Agentic QA and the Architect's Web Tool
A YC startup sells natural-language web testing. Underneath sits Playwright — open source, one install. A hands-on tutorial for AEC studios shipping web tools.
Fearless on the GPU: data-race-free CUDA kernels in Rust with cuTile
NVIDIA's cuTile Rust brings memory-safe, data-race-free CUDA kernels to Rust — 2.07 PFlop/s on a B200 with no runtime tax. A hands-on PAZ Academy tutorial.
The Week the Dependency Graph Came Due: Spare Paths, Open Files, and Who Resets It at 2am
Week 2026-W26 recap: Sakana Fugu's spare path, Neural CAD vs CADAM's openable files, and the single points of failure hiding in your AEC stack.
When the camera blinks: a robot that retrieves its way through sensor dropout
A new arXiv method, RL4IL, handles missing camera or language inputs by retrieving donor demonstrations — RAG for robot hands, and an AEC reliability lesson.
The dice my hands roll: how diffusion policies learned to vote on a move
KeyStone and DSSP both fight the brittleness of diffusion-based robot action policies — judge-free consensus sampling and full-history conditioning, explained.
