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Robots That Lift Heavy Things Must Cover Their Faces

The X-Humanoid Tien Kung Omni robot won the “small” category 400m race in the World Humanoid Robot Games (WHRG) held in Beijing in August 2026. (Un)fortunately, its performance achievements have been somewhat overshadowed by its now-viral r...

23 days ago
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Did ENIAC Have the Right Idea All Along?

At the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where I am now Adjunct Faculty, they have been celebrating the 80-year anniversary of ENIAC. The Moore School is considered the birthplace of the computer indu...

a month ago
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On-Chip Flying Robot Estimation At 2 Milliwatts

The human brain consumes ~10 W, while current humanoid robot brains consume power in the order of ~100 W (and trending upward, let alone datacenter brains).

This compute power is untenable for small robots. For example, the first untethere...

2 months ago
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Should Robots Run Like Humans or Ostriches?

Ostriches and humans are both capable terrestrial runners, and they both weigh about ~100kg in rough order of magnitude. However, they look quite different when they run. Take a look at these snapshots of a human running compared to an ostr...

2 months ago
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Are Robotics Policies Lookup Tables?

Generalist robotics policies (such as Vision-Language-Action or VLA models) have made frequent appearances on this blog. These huge models have performance and generalization characteristics that surpass our theoretical understanding, which...

3 months ago
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