Robotics software maker Skild AI hits $14B valuation

Skild AI, which is building general-purpose robotic software, just raised a $1.4 billion funding round led by SoftBank.
ZME Science

World’s Smallest Programmable Robot Fits on a Fingerprint Ridge and Carries Its Own Computer

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...
IEEE

A Kinematic Parameter Calibration Method of a 6-Axis Industrial Robot Using an Eye-in-Hand 2-D Laser Profiler

Abstract: This letter presents a novel position estimation method for a 2-D laser profiler (LPF) and its application to the offline kinematic parameter calibration of an industrial robot. Unlike ...
IEEE

Multi-Sensor Fusion for Quadruped Robot State Estimation Using Invariant Filtering and Smoothing

Abstract: This letter introduces two multi-sensor state estimation frameworks for quadruped robots, built on the Invariant Extended Kalman Filter (InEKF) and Invariant Smoother (IS). The proposed ...