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ICRA 2026: 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA
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Current multirotor drones provide simplicity, affordability, and ease of operation; however, their primary limitation is their low payload-to-weight ratio, which typically falls at 1:1 or less. The DARPA Lift Challenge aims to shatter the heavy lift bottleneck, seeking novel drone designs that can carry payloads more than four times their weight, which would revolutionize the way we use drones across all sectors.
[ DARPA ]
Huge milestone achieved! World’s first mass delivery of humanoid robots has completed! Hundreds of UBTECH Walker S2 have been delivered to our partners.
I really hope that’s not how they’re actually shipping their robots.
[ UBTECH ]
There is absolutely no reason to give robots hands if you can just teach them to lasso stuff instead.
[ ArcLab ]
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