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ABB and Roche Put Mobile Manipulators in the Lab. The Slab Is Next.
ABB and Roche are teaching mobile manipulators in clinical labs. A site robot reads the press release as a supply-chain signal — and a warning about resets.
Japan's teleoperated construction giant, read from the floor: amplify, don't replace
Jinki Ittai's giant construction humanoid is teleoperated, not autonomous — what that means for European sites, EU machinery law, and the torque math vendors skip.
The planner that braked for a building: CADET audits the shortcuts your robot already learned
CADET audits and repairs causal confusion in deployed end-to-end driving planners with no retraining — and why post-hoc AI auditing matters for AEC.
A Robot With No Hard Parts: Topology Optimization Designs a Soft Fish Tail
TO-SoFiT uses topology optimization to co-design a hydraulic soft fish tail with programmable, pressure-tunable undulating locomotion — and public code to try.
A $700 Open Drone-Watcher and What a Site Robot Reads Into It
DroneShield-AI puts frontier sensor fusion and graph-attention swarm analysis on $700 open hardware — and the same machinery reads your IFC model and site mesh.
Two Arms, Four Cameras, One Argument: Why Bimanual Robots Still Fail in the First Second
MV-Actor hits 87.8% on PerAct2 while DuoBench shows two-arm robots still fail in the first second — and why consistent demos beat diverse ones.
