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What a night! Reporting back from the LNDW at SCIoI - scienceofintelligence.de What could be more exciting than an entire night dedicated to science experiments? This year's Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften at SCIoI featured a very colorful variety of events, from robotics demonst...

Took part in this year’s Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften as part of Science of Intelligence. Always wanted to be on the other side of this event — personal milestone for me. Exciting, fun, and genuinely rewarding!

www.scienceofintelligence.de/what-a-night...

Von der Leyen, Macron knock Trump’s war on universities as ‘gigantic miscalculation’ The European Commission chief and the French president are trying to woo American researchers with a new program called “Choose Europe for Science.”

The European Commission is trying to woo American researchers with a new €500 million program (with France contributing another €100 million) called “Choose Europe for Science.”

EU OS Proof-of-Concept OS for the EU

Great initiative from eu-os.eu

But why base it on Fedora? It’s deeply tied to Red Hat, which is an American company. Yes, Fedora’s community-driven, but Red Hat owns the brand, funds the infra, and most contributors are Red Hat employees. Doesn’t feel fully independent.

#opensource #foss #europe

Hugging Face buys a humanoid robotics startup | TechCrunch AI dev platform Hugging Face has acquired Pollen Robotics, a robotics startup based in France, for an undisclosed amount.

Huggingface buys Pollen Robotics and plans to sell its Reachy 2 humanoids: techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/h...

This weekend @MistralAI hackathon will take place in Paris.
@HuggingFace and @phospho_ai will bring a lot of robots!

We need more hackathons to democratize open-source robotics!
ChatGPT moment of robotics is coming. We have no choice but to be ready 🤗

True, full-on Detective Pikachu aesthetic

Boston Dynamics has showcased its latest collaborative achievement with the AI Research Institute. Atlas uses human motion capture and animation as references, and develops policies through reinforcement learning.Not only Walk, Run, Crawl, but also the street dance moves look very natural!

Unitree robot performs a side flip

This New Open-Source Alternative to Google Docs and Notion Is Backed by France and Germany Real-time editing and collaboration, with a European twist.

New European Open-Source Alternative to Google Docs and Notion

www.howtogeek.com/docs-alterna...

#opensource

@humboldtuni.bsky.social built a search engine for media quotes. It scans news daily and is powered by HU’s own NLP model, reducing reliance on big tech.

Currently, it's only available in German, but an English version is also in the works!

Nothing like a freshly printed dragon to remind me why I need a resin printer 😬

#3dprinting #Dungeons&Dragons

International Women’s Day is here!
Women in science shape the future with their ideas, dedication, and breakthroughs. 🔬✨ Let us celebrate their achievements, and keep pushing for true equality — today and every day! #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction

Robots with eyes more likely to be perceived as having a 'mind' Over the past few years, engineers have developed increasingly advanced robotic systems already introduced in some public spaces and could soon be deployed in home environments. Many of these robots a...

A recent study by researchers at the University of Bremen found that humans are more likely to believe that a robot has a "mind" if it has eye-like structures on its face than if it doesn't. 🤖 techxplore.com/news/2025-02... #Robots #Robotics

Some pictures of our cognitive robotics project. The robot's long leg can be adjusted to three different positions. It's able to recognize its current leg position through movement and exploration.

#robotics #engineering

Alternatives to popular proprietary platforms

#opensource

GoEuropean An open-source extension that provides European alternatives to non European websites

Code available on Codeberg: codeberg.org/K-Robin/GoEu...

Go European – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) Download Go European for Firefox. Suggests European website alternatives to non-European websites.

Go European is an open source browser extension available for Firefox and Chrome.

Key features:
- Get notifications when you enter a website if European alternatives are available
- Enter your country for country specific alternatives

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo...

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science!

I've been so lucky to speak to all these amazing and inspirational women in robotics over the past 5 years.
#WomenInScience #IDWGS2025 #WomenInSTEM

Video Depth Anything: Consistent Depth Estimation for Super-Long Videos

TL;DR: Long videos support; Depth Anything
V2 with efficient spatial-temporal head. Temporal
consistency loss -> depth gradient (no geometric priors)

Calling all experimental vision researchers, theorists, engineers, and computer scientists! Apply now for the Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium 2025 in Tübingen, Germany – Register today and secure your spot: summerschool.lizhaoping.org

Our little robot navigating its environment as part of a Cognitive Robotics project

YouTube video by Boston Dynamics Happy Holidays | 2024 | Boston Dynamics

Wonder how many tries it took to make this happen! 😄

youtu.be/sFkUH5XFHKU?...

HOT 🔥 fastest, most precise, and most capable hand control setup ever...

Less than $450 and fully open-source 🤯
by @huggingface, @therobotstudio, @NepYope

This tendon-driven technology will disrupt robotics! Retweet to accelerate its democratization 🚀

A thread 🧵

Study Group - Humanoid Robots - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Focus is on both applied and theoretical issues in robotics and automation. Robotics is here defined to include intelligent machines and systems; whereas automation includes the use of automated metho...

IEEE Humanoids Study Group - HRI Survey
The IEEE Humanoids Study Group (www.ieee-ras.org/industry-gov...) is in the process of putting together a report to help standards groups across the world determine which existing standards can and should be applied to humanoid robots

Clone Alpha - Musculoskeletal, intelligent androids

Clone Robotics released Clone Alpha.
clonerobotics.com

Just discovered SAMURAI, an adaptation of Meta’s SAM 2 for visual object tracking. It uses motion-aware memory selection to predict object motion and refine masks. Especially interesting for crowded scenes. Looks like a big step forward!

yangchris11.github.io/samurai/

Thanks 😁

This image depicts a workspace with a custom recording setup. A smartphone is attached to a desk lamp using a hair tie, positioned above a blue cutting mat on the workbench. On the mat, there is a small 3D-printed robot being recorded. In the background, various tools and materials are organized on a pegboard, including pliers, soldering supplies, and other electronics-related items. To the left, a black 3D printer labeled "Bambu Lab" is visible. The workspace appears well-organized and tailored for crafting or prototyping projects.

I built a small experimental setup to record my robot's movements. This allows me to better assign the results of the recorded data to the individual movements afterwards.

Not the most professional way to do it, but sometimes an IKEA lamp, some 3D printing and a hair tie is good enough 😁

Wish I could make it, but as I'm based in Berlin—Silicon Valley is a bit far this time around. Hoping to attend in the future, though!

I would put this even more strongly: open source AI is probably our only realistic chance to avoid a terrifying increase in concentration of power. I do not want to live in a world where the people with all the money also have all the intellectual power.