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The Last 65 Percent: A Drywall Robot That Learns From Its Remote Coaches
Origin's OG-1 spreads, sands and primes plasterboard to 4.27 m with admittance control. Why Swiss offices should write finish grades into the model.
Gravis Robotics: ETH's Excavator Brain Now Fits the Digger Your Site Already Rents
ETH spin-off Gravis Robotics fits AI kits to excavators sites already rent. From HEAP's dry-stone wall to USD 200M, and what Swiss offices must model now.
Eight of 93: A Crane Fleet and a Leaderless Swarm, Both Coordinated in Stuttgart
The EIC funded 8 of 93 robot-collective proposals; Stuttgart's ICD coordinates two: a crane-and-robot timber fleet and a leaderless swarm with EPFL.
ETH Zurich's Hand That Walks on Its Fingers, and the Shaft No Arm Reaches
ETH Zurich's Soft Robotics Lab trained an 818 g five-finger hand to walk on its fingertips and then work. What that could mean for shafts and ceiling voids.
A Timber Joint With 0.25 mm of Air: Robot-Milled, AR-Guided, Built to Come Apart
UQ researchers mill mortise-tenon timber joints to 0.25 mm and guide assembly in AR. No screws, nails or glue, so components can be taken apart and reused.
The Crane That Lets Gravity Choose: EPFL's CRCL Puts Robots on Site as Colleagues
EPFL's CRCL and SXL scan, drill and crane-place demolition rubble into structural walls and train robot teams to build arches. Free show in Lausanne.
Robots Can Do 74% of Physical Tasks. On a Building Site, Architects Draw the Room
Anthropic's robot-exposure index finds robots can do 74% of US physical tasks but are cost-competitive on 0.3%. Why detailing sets a site's robot-readiness.
Who Held the Controller? A Cage-Fight Humanoid and the BIM Model Robots Will Read
REK's remote-controlled humanoid kicked an influencer across a cage. A site robot asks who held the controller, and why your IFC doors set robot routes.
The teleop tax, paid down: 12 minutes of an installer's hands
A McGill sim buys a prefab window installer's tacit skill in 12-15 minutes of supervision at the contact-failure boundary — the teleop tax, paid down.
The hand that reports back: why 1X put its motors in the forearm
1X's NEO hand runs a 5:1–15:1 tendon drive so every grasp reports force back — and why that makes your as-built IFC the coordinate frame robots will ask for.
