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    Amazing Hand: Why Pollen Robotics Cracked the $200 Dexterous Hand Problem
    Open Source Robotics Article

    Amazing Hand: Why Pollen Robotics Cracked the $200 Dexterous Hand Problem

    Pollen Robotics' Amazing Hand delivers 8 DOF dexterous manipulation for $200. Compare specs, build process, and why it beats $50K alternatives.

    3 min8/25/2025
    π₀ Changes Everything: Why Physical Intelligence Just Dropped the Most Important Robot Model Yet
    Research Paper Article

    π₀ Changes Everything: Why Physical Intelligence Just Dropped the Most Important Robot Model Yet

    Physical Intelligence open-sourced PiZero, the first robot foundation model that works. Learn how it eliminates months of programming with 20 hours of training.

    3 min8/25/2025
    HopeJr Changes Everything: How a $3,000 Humanoid Just Broke the Economics of Robotics
    Open Source Robotics Article

    HopeJr Changes Everything: How a $3,000 Humanoid Just Broke the Economics of Robotics

    HopeJr humanoid robot costs $3000 vs Tesla Optimus $20000+ while delivering 66 degrees of freedom. See why open source AI-powered robotics just changed everything for builders and researchers.

    3 min8/23/2025
    EgoZero: The Smart Glasses Breakthrough That Solves Robot Training's Biggest Problem
    Research Paper Article

    EgoZero: The Smart Glasses Breakthrough That Solves Robot Training's Biggest Problem

    EgoZero trains robots using only smart glasses footage in 20 minutes, achieving 70% success rates without any robot data.

    3 min8/23/2025
    LeKiwi: The Mobile Manipulator That Gets Imitation Learning Right
    Open Source Robotics Article

    LeKiwi: The Mobile Manipulator That Gets Imitation Learning Right

    LeKiwi mobile manipulator delivers real holonomic movement and LeRobot integration.

    3 min8/22/2025
    Why Your Dexterous Robot Doesn't Need Perfect Demos Anymore
    Research Paper Article

    Why Your Dexterous Robot Doesn't Need Perfect Demos Anymore

    Stanford researchers eliminate months of robot demo collection using VLM scaffolding.

    3 min8/22/2025
    Open Duck Mini: Building Disney's Magic on a $400 Budget
    Open Source Robotics Article

    Open Duck Mini: Building Disney's Magic on a $400 Budget

    Learn how two engineers built a $400 bipedal robot that walks like Disney's million-dollar BDX droids using Raspberry Pi Zero and hobby servos.

    3 min8/22/2025
    SmolVLA: The Vision-Language-Action Model That Actually Runs on Your Hardware
    Research Paper Article

    SmolVLA: The Vision-Language-Action Model That Actually Runs on Your Hardware

    SmolVLA delivers billion-parameter VLA performance on consumer hardware.

    3 min8/22/2025
    Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character
    Research Paper Article

    Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character

    Learn to build bipedal robots that actually walk. Complete guide covers hardware selection, control systems, and real budget breakdowns for walking robots

    3 min8/13/2025
    AGIBOT: The Dataset Play That Changes Everything for Humanoid Robotics
    Open Source Robots Article

    AGIBOT: The Dataset Play That Changes Everything for Humanoid Robotics

    AGIBOT released 1M+ robot trajectories as open source, achieving 78% task completion vs 46% baseline

    3 min8/13/2025
    RIGVid: Teaching Robots by Watching AI-Generated Videos
    Research Paper Article

    RIGVid: Teaching Robots by Watching AI-Generated Videos

    Skip months of robot demonstration collection. RIGVid uses AI-generated videos to train manipulation robots with 85% success rates.

    4 min8/12/2025
    The $73 Gripper That's Changing Robot Learning Forever
    Research Paper Article

    The $73 Gripper That's Changing Robot Learning Forever

    UMI framework breaks the robot teaching bottleneck with portable grippers that works in any environment

    3 min8/12/2025
    FarmBot:The Open-Source CNC Farm That Actually Works
    Open Source Article

    FarmBot:The Open-Source CNC Farm That Actually Works

    Discover how FarmBot Genesis uses CNC precision and open-source robotics to automate vegetable growing

    4 min8/12/2025
    K-scale Labs Z-bot vs Toddler Bot: Which Open-Source Humanoid Should You Build?
    Open-Source Robots Article

    K-scale Labs Z-bot vs Toddler Bot: Which Open-Source Humanoid Should You Build?

    K-Scale Labs Z-bot vs Toddler Bot Humanoid Robot Comparison

    5 min8/8/2025
    The Tactile Glove That's Teaching Robots to Feel Like Humans
    Research Paper Article

    The Tactile Glove That's Teaching Robots to Feel Like Humans

    Feel the Force system teaches robots human-level manipulation through simple tactile demonstrations.

    3 min8/8/2025
    PAROL6: The Desktop Robot That Actually Makes Sense
    Open-source robotics Article

    PAROL6: The Desktop Robot That Actually Makes Sense

    Build a professional robot arm that rivals expensive industrial systems. PAROL6 offers complete documentation and proven real-world performance.

    5 min8/7/2025
    Family units for a million robots
    Thoughts Article

    Family units for a million robots

    Do robots need employers or nurturing families

    3 min8/7/2025