Adaptive Machine Patterns

Dr Andy Whyte, presenting at the European Robotics Forum 2025 in Stuttgart! #erf2025

I'm volunteering at First Tech Challenge in Cambridge today. There are some brilliant robots made by amazing young teams.

From developing a next-gen electronic skin for robots, to crafting novel tech for muscle-like actuation, introducing the next seven teams we’re funding in Robot Dexterity. (1/2)

Robot Dexterity Backed by £57m, this programme aims to transform robotic capabilities and unlock a step change in human productivity.

Working on Technical Area 1, their ultimate goal is to improve the skills and dexterity of robots to create vastly more useful machines. Check out the portfolio so far: link.aria.org.uk/rd-creators-bluesky (2/2)

Last week we exhibited our #modular arm art the #ARIA #robotics launch event...

Orbit_v3, outside test #maker #robot #engineering

Engineers enable a drone to determine its position in the dark and indoors The MiFly system enables a drone to determine its precise position space — including its six degrees of freedom — in indoor, dark, or low-visibility environments using radio frequency waves.

Roboticists at MIT have developed a new low-power system using radio frequency waves that enables drones to determine their position indoors or in dark or low-visibility environments 🤖 news.mit.edu/2025/enginee... #Robots #Robotics

𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝟑𝟏 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐚𝐭 𝟏𝟐:𝟎𝟎 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐂𝐄𝐓

- REGISTRATION: erf2025.eu/register/
- PROGRAM OVERVIEW: erf2025.eu/program/

UK firm unleashes new humanoid robot with hands faster than humans The company's new humanoid robot features advanced motion control, state-of-the-art AI integration, and a host of other features.

UK-based AI and robotics startup Humanoid just launched its new general-purpose humanoid robot HMND 01, which can hit a top walking speed of 1.5 m/s and can carry objects weighing up to 15 kg 🤖 interestingengineering.com/innovation/h... #Robots #Robotics #Humanoids

It's an important video.

Finally got Treads on my robot Orbit

GitHub - deepseek-ai/FlashMLA Contribute to deepseek-ai/FlashMLA development by creating an account on GitHub.

Day 1 of DeepSeek open source week: FlashMLA

MLA=Multihead Latent Attention

One of the big innovations that made V3 such a notable model

github.com/deepseek-ai/...

there’s gonna be a crap ton of big AI announcements in the next couple weeks, but this open source week is, imo, the thing to pay attention to. a lot of future work is going to build off of it

Oh man, this could be interesting! microsoft.github.io/Magma/

GitHub - dhealy05/frames_of_mind: Animating R1's thoughts. Animating R1's thoughts. Contribute to dhealy05/frames_of_mind development by creating an account on GitHub.

Interesting project, not sure how useful it is, but it seems like we are making inroads into understanding how #llms 'think' things: github.com/dhealy05/fra...

As a #start-up doing #ai and #robotics on a budget, it's interesting to see others converge on similar solutions: ewintr.nl/posts/2025/b... small #llm will mean more local ai.

CEOs near hometowns less likely to commit misdeeds - News & insight - Cambridge Judge Business School "Research by Professor Rau shows CEOs near their hometowns commit less financial misconduct.

CEOs near their hometowns commit fewer financial misdeeds, finds new research from by Professor Raghavendra Rau at #CambridgeJudge. Local scrutiny fosters ethical leadership, reducing fraud, insider trading & accounting manipulation. loom.ly/2V8P_XA
#CorporateGovernance #BusinessEthics #Leadership

Excellent blog post: timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02...

I think that the f-91w might be peak product development. 40+ years in production, great design and I've dived with one to 30m... These guys took it to another level though: www.watchesofespionage.com/blogs/woe-di...

archive.ph/hzLLL Goldman Sachs gave this prediction last year

Just trying to focus on good times while working #maker #robotics

Human hands are astonishing tools. Here's why robots are struggling to match them Our hands perform thousands of complex tasks every day – can artificial intelligence help robots match these extraordinary human appendages?

Human hands are astonishing tools. So it's no wonder robots are struggling to match them. 🤖 www.bbc.com/future/artic... #Robots #Robotics #AI

GitHub - deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 Contribute to deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com/deepseek-ai/... this new model #deepseek has done the rounds recently, apparently they've been.able to distil reasoning from large models into smal ones! #hackernews reported on it many times, CNN says: the US supremacy is in "jeopardy". I don't know, just excited to see more small #LLMs

Smart folk betting on #robotics in 2025 - Financial times article, in case you missed it: archive.ph/uKeHc we're excited to be part of the #Nvidia inception program

We're excited that our startup has been added to the #21towatch list of companies! #robotics #AI

Just saw this profile of Fei Fei Li: spectrum.ieee.org/fei-fei-li-w... looks like computer vision might get solved now!

We're thrilled to be ARIA R&D Creators! We are looking forwards to being part of the Smarter Robot Bodies Programme.

bsky.app/profile/aria...

A teal and yellow gradient with the text, Opportunity seeds: Smarter Robot Bodies. A mechanical arm protrudes from a black line to the left of the text.

Meet our Creators + discover what they’re working on 👇

link.aria.org.uk/srb-creators... (4/4)